Flash forward
: I'm having a bad flash forward right now, after watching tonight's premiere of American Dreams: I fear that 40 years from now. somebody will make a show about how everything in America changed not in November 1963 but in September 2001 and we--you and I, real people today--will be turned into period pieces, made quaint in our clothes and attitudes and lives, stereotypes in stereo.
The '60s were my time; I am their child. I was in third grade in 1963, when JFK was killed; I was in high school during Vietnam and the '68 elections; I marched in protest against that war; I was ready to risk jail or my citizenship to fight against the fight (and I was saved only by the luck of numbers: my birthday and lottery).
Now I'm looking at a show that is going to turn much of that time into a cliche.
But then, I get the exact same feeling when I watch protest marchers on the news today: anti-capitalism, anti-trade, anti-Americanism, anti-war, anti-meat. They mock a time of real protest worse than any TV show ever could.
Flash forward
: I'm having a bad flash forward right now, after watching tonight's premiere of American Dreams: I fear that 40 years from now. somebody will make a show about how everything in America changed not in November 1963 but in September 2001 and we--you and I, real people today--will be turned into period pieces, made quaint in our clothes and attitudes and lives, stereotypes in stereo.
The '60s were my time; I am their child. I was in third grade in 1963, when JFK was killed; I was in high school during Vietnam and the '68 elections; I marched in protest against that war; I was ready to risk jail or my citizenship to fight against the fight (and I was saved only by the luck of numbers: my birthday and lottery).
Now I'm looking at a show that is going to turn much of that time into a cliche.
But then, I get the exact same feeling when I watch protest marchers on the news today: anti-capitalism, anti-trade, anti-Americanism, anti-war, anti-meat. They mock a time of real protest worse than any TV show ever could.
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