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ParanoidObsessive posted...

I mean, my grandparents didn't talk about the space program or the Civil Rights Movement changing the world either. Would your argument be that neither of them were significant either and we can safely roll them both back to pre-1960s levels?

Do the comparison between plastic bags, the space program and Civil Rights. They're rather different. Like you said in subsequent posts, inventions like the automobile completely changed the lives of our grandparents. As did television. Different people arbitrarily didn't discuss certain things, like the space program or civil rights. I don't meet people that discuss how the plastic bag changed their life. You will meet people that discuss the space program or civil rights.

A better line of questioning to refute my idea would be that plastic packaging did invote in areas like grocery packaging, allowing longer freshness. The bag that transported them home did not provide innovations beyond convenience.