Escape Pod Dreams - 35
Created | Updated Dec 23, 2003
Since 'New' and 'Improved' have failed, we are returning to 'Classic' and 'Devolved'
Don't Worry, Kyoko, Mommy's Looking For A Hand In The Snow
The Seventies have become,
were,
and are again
an object of curiosity that many of us who were actually there
would like to snigger derisively at
and then go back to worrying about what went wrong in the Forties
that could have stopped this whole mess, including the Seventies,
from occurring in the first place.
In a second, I will stop wondering whether the continuation of General Patton's life
would have prevented TisWas and actually attempt to address the topic at hand.
The Seventies was an odd business because it was hard to focus on
if you were in the midst of it. The Sixties were not really over, yet.
The Fifties were a lingering pall of noise, clothes and cars while the Forties
was still showing it's ugly head during the commercial breaks to remind us that Armageddon was close at hand if we only bothered to look.
Consequently, during the Seventies,
many people were so busy reliving or nostalging about the Twenties
that it was almost 1985 before some of us realized that
Pete Townshend and Roger Waters were becoming old men and they had been born during the Second World War,
which had been brought about by the attitudes of Nostalgia during the Thirties
for the wonderful and halcyon days of the 1840s, long before all this bothersome business of Modern Europe and Freed Colonies came popping out of the cake and peeing in the punch.
So, all in all, I say, that those who were not born until 1980 or later
who persist in believing that the Seventies actually existed
are entitled to their little bit of aft-glancing just as much as we were.
But they can also Tatteringly well KEEP IT TO THEMSELVES!
I've got debts that are older than you lot.
