uspol, generations, war, doom (~)
Oh, shit. I keep forgetting that many of you are a lot younger than me, and have no recollection of the pre-Gorbachev world.
Oh, yeah, doom is okay. You get used to it, and then you wake up one day and-- one way or the other-- it's over.
I know not everybody can share my fatalism. But I'm not gonna lie: it's good over here. You should try it. We have absolutely no idea how any of this will actually shake out, and we were all headed to the same place anyhow.
re: uspol, generations, war, doom (~)
@zebratron2084 ... yeah, that's true, isn't it? our gen was the one that grew up *knowing* we were all gonna die, probably soon, probably in a big fireball, but if not overpopulation or pollution or Y2K or *something* was going to kill off the species. the next gen came after the wall went down and the USSR was demonstrated as unable to hold up its side of the MAD arrangement; they got to grow up thinking maybe humans had a future after all. now that we're back to "we're all doomed" the kids are freaking out, but the Xers are just wondering where Max Headroom went off to. XD
re: uspol, generations, war, doom (~)
@troodon I mean, we freaked out too. :) That's one of the reasons I find leftist pop culture from the 70s and 80s so reassuring -- they were every bit as convinced as we are that their enemies were irredeemably evil and unstoppable, and we were all totally screwed. (On the other hand, compare that to right-wing panic artists like Morton Downey, Jr., the PMRC, Anita Bryant, who WERE pretty much evil, and pretty much got righteously stomped by history...)
re: uspol, generations, war, doom (~)
@zebratron2084 oh yah, we panicked, but you can't *grow up* under the umbrella of constant doom-panic and not have it ultimately warp you, y'know? we learned to live with it, those of us who are still alive anyway obviously--escapism, jadedness, Just Not Noticing, whatever--even going into a flailing panic isn't *new* for us. I've been having 80s flashbacks for years now. XD