My Generation Grew up Paranoid

[slweippert]

For those of you who don't know, I was a teenager before the berlin wall fell (yes, I am THAT OLD). Before the fall, when the USSR was a world power, we lived with the certainty that at any time, any moment, major cities in the USA would explode into nuclear nothingness. Hell, we had movies about it, Hollywood and made-for-tv. We had TV shows about

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[mdlbear]

Tell me about it; I grew up in the 1950s.

That's a striking video, from a purely technical viewpoint -- I like the way they recorded the whole group performing together.

[slweippert]

Ah but your generation had the false beliefs that fall-out shelters and duck-and-cover would save you for comfort. You guys had hope. We didn't. We knew that we were all going to die if the balloon went up. No question about it, it would all go to hell. Look at our music. "It's a mistake" and "99 luff balloons" are two more. I don't know of any 50s music about the world going to hell in a nuclear strike.

But most importantly, my point was that living under fear of destruction has given rise to the angry, Shall we all die together? attitude in politics not to say my generation had it worse than any other.

[mdlbear]

True; I think the main musical reaction really came in in the '60s during the Vietnam War. Try Bob Dylan's "Masters Of War" if you want angry.