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Delillo's Underworld looks at the Cold War and its gradual unraveling as a sort of mass trauma followed by a mass convalescence. Seems like the terrorism/counterterrorism era proceeded similarly, but at four or five times the speed - though of course we're susceptible to a relapse, just as there were a couple of those during the Cold War (and I guess the whole terror age can be seen as a relapse or aftershock of the cold one).
Because it feels kind of over, at least as a mass psychological disruption. Obviously many of the things it cracked are still cracked, and some of those fractures are spreading. But people seem to speak differently about all of it, sort of how they'd speak of Vietnam.
Knee jerk reaction poll: Does that feel wrong?
Because it feels kind of over, at least as a mass psychological disruption. Obviously many of the things it cracked are still cracked, and some of those fractures are spreading. But people seem to speak differently about all of it, sort of how they'd speak of Vietnam.
Knee jerk reaction poll: Does that feel wrong?