"Fun Was Actually Becoming Quite Subversive" (Molly Hite)

[rich]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > an undermining of our inherited ways of looking at WW2 and thus of many
> other issues
>
> Very much so, in my case. My WWII Marine parents were too temperamentally
> skeptical and contrarian to be "gung ho" about either WWII or the Cold War,
> but I still grew up more or less within the mainstream, triumphal
> consensus: "Our Great Democracy saved the world in the Good War." The
> civil-rights movement, Dr. Strangelove, Viet Nam, Nixon -- and yeah,
> sex&drugs&rock&roll -- took off the shine and opened some cracks, as did
> steady reading of modern history. But GR came in like a barrage from a
> dozen unexpected angles, screaming, unstoppable, hilarious, and opened the
> cracks into chasms that no amount of "It's morning in America!" <tm Ronald
> Reagan and Hal Riney> would ever close. .
> _____________
>
true for many of us here, but not for the country as a whole, or its
culture. Reagan the myth continues to have resonance, for example--nothing
on the left comes close. why is that?
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