Cory Panshin - you betcha! Geez - the Cold War, the terror of nuclear attacks by the "evil godless" Soviets! "Dr. Strangelove (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love thr Bomb," "Hiroshima Mon Amour," Shusaku Endo's novel Silence, every US and British spy show you can name, the ,pamphlets given to people by the Civil Defense Agency on…
Cory Panshin - you betcha! Geez - the Cold War, the terror of nuclear attacks by the "evil godless" Soviets! "Dr. Strangelove (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love thr Bomb," "Hiroshima Mon Amour," Shusaku Endo's novel Silence, every US and British spy show you can name, the ,pamphlets given to people by the Civil Defense Agency on how to survive a nuclear holocaust, "duck and cover" drills (like today's drills in case of mass shootings), how Civil Rights movement protesters were treated, (going a bit further back) what was done to 14 y.o Emmett Till, the bombing of the 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL + the 4 tween girls who died when the bomb went off...
There was sunny optimism living with profound emptiness and pessimism, not least for those who fought in all of the wars the US engaged in post-WWII. It was *not* an optimistic time.
Watergate, anyone? And now, school shootings? Cops with cuffs and nightsticks in elementary schools?
We're facing some of the worst crises our society has ever encountered. The polarization is like the runup to the Civil War. *That's* where the "dark" stuff (which isn't new, just becoming more mainstream) comes in.
Cory Panshin - you betcha! Geez - the Cold War, the terror of nuclear attacks by the "evil godless" Soviets! "Dr. Strangelove (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love thr Bomb," "Hiroshima Mon Amour," Shusaku Endo's novel Silence, every US and British spy show you can name, the ,pamphlets given to people by the Civil Defense Agency on how to survive a nuclear holocaust, "duck and cover" drills (like today's drills in case of mass shootings), how Civil Rights movement protesters were treated, (going a bit further back) what was done to 14 y.o Emmett Till, the bombing of the 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL + the 4 tween girls who died when the bomb went off...
There was sunny optimism living with profound emptiness and pessimism, not least for those who fought in all of the wars the US engaged in post-WWII. It was *not* an optimistic time.
Watergate, anyone? And now, school shootings? Cops with cuffs and nightsticks in elementary schools?
We're facing some of the worst crises our society has ever encountered. The polarization is like the runup to the Civil War. *That's* where the "dark" stuff (which isn't new, just becoming more mainstream) comes in.