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Canoe... I see your idea.....
The 80's was a time I grew up as an anti-establishment post-punk cranky ass.... not to say I matured much....
an odd thing about the 80's memories is what's forgotten.....
1. Rusty old cars with "DIE YUPPIE SCUM" bumper stickers
(yes, it was hip to be non-materialistic, anti-suburban, kind of like Occupy Wall Street these days)2. Ronald Reagan was FUCKING HATED, the economy was waaay in the toilet in the early 80's and Reagan invaded Grenada to distract everyone... Reagen brought back the "Selective Service" and we all burned our "Selective Service cards, because NO FUCKING WAY were we going to go fight in El Salvador or Nicaragua.... it was completely unhip to like Reagan....
I fear that the 80's we see in the rear view mirror is totally different...
Mostly I fear that the FOX News people are trying to make Reagan a God, and the 80's as a "purer, simpler" time, just like the 50's supposedly were, unlike the "goddless, complex socialist" world we live in now....
- 80s anti-nuke marches achieved more in the mass public consciousness than flowery hippies ever did.detritus
- something thoughtful, finallycanoe
- How many people here remember the constant fear of a Nuclear War we had in the 80s....vaxorcist
- I do I do I do.
I wrote horribly nihilistic English assignments about it, and fuck it - I thought we were goners..mikotondria3