Note we weren't a political family. No negative opinions were expressed about any president other than Nixon -- I don't remember anyone defending him afterwards -- and then late-stage Carter but that was for fecklessness.
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But in and among everything was this background static of "we all might be incinerated in or starve after someone in Moscow pushes a button". I lived near an important USAF base (btw I'm no longer concerned about opsec on this account...I never say anything objectionable anyhow)
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We had all seen Roots (as children!) and been traumatized and changed by it. (Some of us were very stupid and watched The Exorcist and The Brood alone at night too.) Then we all saw The Day After and got traumatized by that.
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Speaking of scary television. The voiceovers and overall tone of 70s ads and promos could be scary and suffocating, and I have to think this seeped into us.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSr6mIU0zUo …
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Not living in one of the biggest cities, we didn't have the sort of crime wave that some did, especially New York. Still we heard about it and saw it on the news. We did have a terrible mass murder, though. I was 1 mile away. http://www.purcellregister.com/news/deadly-summer-of-78/article_c78b32ac-d9b0-11e2-a0bb-001a4bcf887a.html …
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We then had this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_post_office_shooting …
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And then this in 1995.pic.twitter.com/mn6o8AmNVS
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In the space of 17 years it went from a place where life was generally simple and uneventful to a place where the very worst could happen.
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Looping back for something cultural: the yuppie moment. In the 70s and into the 80s only a tiny fraction of the population displayed anything like the aggressive pursuit of prestige that I think reached its peak in the 2010s.
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yeah I think that was important in an underappreciated way hmmmm
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