It's more that I'm suspecting that you're thinking that the first post-WW2 decades were something "normal", rather than something that might not be achieved on this planet ever again ?
Well there is our confusion. I think that WW2 had a great distortion on what is considered "normal". I think that we have been living in a wartime economy mentality ever since.
I working towards a more local scale which is pre-ww2.