Progressing Nicely

The collection phase is well under way with somewhere in the 90 piece count range now.
Most of the items are pretty flat when it comes to anything other than strict technological comparative value. The level of detail in the way coins are minted and stamps are printed is noticeably improved, license plates remain largely unchanged, music is somewhat cyclical with a 'hitch' every generation or so that wakes up the current generation to the popular music of the previous generation(s) which at present is taking the form of all of the sampling of real music in the rap music culture.

So, focusing on print media seems to be the best way to round out the various eras overall. I've seen strikingly similar events through the years.

Here are some telling, notable titles from various news magazines:

1968 - "Russia in the Middle East" (Afghani war attempting to secure s foothold in the middle east)

1973 - "Arabs, Oil, Evil" (Oil Embargo against the US, painting the middle east as evil because they stopped selling us oil)

2006 - "When will it end?" (Iraq occupation based on an invasion for reason other than originally stated)

That sums up the last 40 years rather elegantly. US depends on oil. US finds oil in the middle east while looking for water (1933) and wrestles control of it through local government manipulation including war, genocide (through backing madmen through the years), wanton large scale murder and all of the other delightful shit we've all grown to blind eye into 'it's over there, why should I care?". We still crave oil. We still meddle in the affairs of countries that have grown obscenely rich and incredibly corrupt, and we won't stop anytime soon. Our elite rich are covered in it oil and they influence (run) everything. Perhaps this whole green house gas/global warming thing will wake governing powers into reducing oil dependency through alternative fueling and such, but in all likeliness it will be after hundreds of thousands more are dead over dead dinosaur juice.

I digress. Time capsule.

I now have enough in the way of items to begin sourcing a good storage solution.