Speaking of cancel culture, it is interesting that both in its gentle form & its more satirical one, the service comedy has disappeared: Good Soldier Švejk, McHale's Navy, Catch 22, MASH, Stripes etc. Where has that tradition gone? (Beetle Bailey still lives, I guess)https://twitter.com/dbessner/status/1490758668240908288 …
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There was another event at the same time: end of the cold war. I imagine laughing about infantry in uniforms is delightful escapism, if in reality global nuclear annihilation is looming.
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I disagree. We still had service comedies after Vietnam. I think the more likely reason is that we’re nearly fifty years removed from the draft/compulsory national service stop being a thing in the English speaking world, so we don’t that collective memory anymore.
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