Wabba. Weebba. Wubba. Watchmen.

[cygna_hime]

So. We went shoe and sock shopping (new sneakers, yay! new Mary Jane-type shoes, yay! new fun and silly socks, yay!), and then we went to the bookstore, and I got a copy of Watchmen. And then I sat down and I read it. And then I staggered around making vague noises as my brain tried to process everything

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[auronlu]

That reminds me so painfully of my experience watching Babylon 5 the first time, during the Clinton administration when we didn't think censorship as bad as what was happening on this fictional TV show's ISN could happen anymore. I heard the words "nothing's the same anymore" in my head and the appropriate soundtrack as I watched the second plane hit the WTC on live TV. After that... when were we going to get Nightwatch (Patriot Act), and when were we going to get a war with the attack used as a pretext, a war and a politics of fear that were ten jillion times more damaging to Us and Them than the attack itself?

Yup.

The only thing that hasn't happened, that I was honestly afraid might happen because of all the B5 parallels that did come true in the last 10 years... "We are now under martial law."

[cygna_hime]

When the dystopias turn into reality, what does that say about reality?

ASLGHFLKHFG my recent reading has not reduced my generalized RAGE at the world at large and particularly everyone who was involved in screwing up the world before I got hardly any use out of it. I'll fit right in back on campus, huh?

[auronlu]

I wish I could give you folks the nineties. The Berlin Wall came down while I was in college, and we had a dork president who had a frickin' BUDGET SURPLUS (why do they always think Democrats are going to screw up the economy?!) and the worst thing he did during his presidency was to earn a tire-iron clout to the head from his wife (royally deserved, but not our business). Israel and Palestine were sitting down to try and work things out, and the Cold War was over, and Tony Blair hadn't become a U.S. love slave and... dangit.

It was about 8 years of sanity, relative peace, the world economy doing well, our own country doing well, and people starting to turn their attention to things like the environment and various social issues that needed to be taken care of but had slipped under the radar.

Including Clinton going after Al-Quaeda training camps, and at the time, Republicans were screaming it was just a political stunt. But Clinton was going after the terrorists and not the countries housing them, so it could be pinpoint strikes

[cygna_hime]

I liked what of the nineties I had; I was only a couple months old when the Wall came down, and these days I appreciate more and more that I got to grow up in those brief years of sanity. Maybe it's just the rose-colored glasses of childhood, but I feel like things were better then. Funnily enough, I'd rather have had that and have to deal with all this now that I'm old enough to understand than have grown up with this.

I don't get it either.

[rhaella]

Then again, that last page of the comic, where Rorschach's journal was possibly about to be found... goodbye, happy ending! So all the uncertainty that comes with reality does sort of come through in the end.