DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

Severian looks back in … well, dyspepsia.

When I got to college, back in the early Clinton years (effectively, 1988-2003), there were three generations of tie-dyed hippie dorks wandering around in search of something to protest.  There I was, thinking hey, it’s 1990, shouldn’t the Tyrell Corporation have a booth at the job fair?, and yet every academic I ran into was still going off about Agent Orange and acid rock.  Left-wingers in 1992, including 18 year old college freshmen, all looked like Left-wingers from 1967.  It was all Vietnam, all the time, to the point where Bill Clinton was some kind of hero for having dodged the draft.

(Remember that?  And wasn’t it a hoot when, just 8 short years later, George W. Bush was some kind of commie scumbag for having dodged the draft?  Or remember the “brutal Afghan winter?”  Good times.  If you’re not old enough to remember this stuff, I’m sure you get the point from the context — the Left spent the entire W. era trying to make the War on Terror into Vietnam II.  John McCain was still humping that chicken on the campaign trail in 2008, when most of his torturers from the Hanoi Hilton had keeled over from old age).

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