On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:52:41 -0600, "Jim Oberg"
wrote:

Really broke your heart when we won the Cold War, didn't it?

....It wasn't that we won the Cold War, it was the *way* it was won.
The entire Gen-X or "Depression Era Rock" generation was the result of
the youths of the late 80's - early 90's growing up expecting the US
and/or the USSR to accidentally nuke each other over a radar picking
up a dead bird on its antenna and interpreting it as a sneak attack.
But in order to survive, the paranoia resulting from such approaching
and guaranteed assured destruction had to be suppressed and/or
redirected in order to function in life. Then, all of a sudden, we
wake up one morning and the Evil Soviet Empire has collapsed upon
itself following a failed coup and a crumbled wall in Berlin. The
Monster Under The Bed That Was Real was no more, and these kids' poor
fragile psyches just crumbled because now they didn't have that
perpetual threat to blame every screwup on.

But what the frack? My generation blames Disco for all our
problems...:-P

OM
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