What would it be like to live in the 1860's? I wouldn't like it because it looks like the shopping sucks.

These pictures were taken during the Civil War 1861-1865. The one above shows president Lincoln visting a battlefield in Maryland. It's really amazing that we have pictures from almost 150 years ago. It's really amazing how much things have changed, even in the past 50 years. Humanity has lived 1000's of years without any technological advances and then suddenly -only in the past 100 years or so, we have cars, computers, tv, and ipods. It's sort of scary the damage we have done only over a few decades. Global warming, nuclear weapons, overpopulation and depletion of resources. Something I find troubling is all the vaccines that they are coming up with. Sure, it's good to not have disease but I feel that if you start vaccinating against everything, people's immune systems are not going to be strong, then when a new disease comes about(which it will) we won't be able to fight it off. I could go on about the troubles of humanity for a long time, but I'm tired and going to bed.