General Chit-Chat Thread - No Spoilers

[Spitfire]

i mean an episode of DS9 i just watched

 

[Spitfire]

had a vision of santuary cities in 2024

 

[Comrade Khan]

would explain why i love it so much. just in case you werent aware, i do tend to relate to the rebellious spirit . massive reveal i know

 

[Barry Poppins]

I think an extremely fair comparison is that Japan in the 1980s was perhaps a more violent version of the American 1960s.

 

[Comrade Khan]

that bad? did they have cops murder protesters too?

 

[Barry Poppins]

I say "perhaps", because Japan IIRC didn't have major political assassinations like the likes of fucking Malcolm X, JFK, MLK, and RFK

 

[Comrade Khan]

sorry I should have specified national guardsmen as i was refering to Ohio

 

[Barry Poppins]

sorry I should have specified national guardsmen as i was refering to Ohio

If you're referring to Kent University, that was 1970.

 

[Barry Poppins]

I say this as an aside but

 

[Barry Poppins]

Malcolm X, JFK, MLK, and RFK's assassinations were horrible, but I think they ultimately galvanized a lot of people towards action because of their violent natures. The 70s saw a lot of political activism even as the Baby Boomers were starting to get old and become parents themselves. I think John Lennon's murder is the straw that broke the camel's back though, and utterly decimated the idealism that Baby Boomers of the 60s and 70s had. I think JFK's assassination kickstarted the fight by the Boomers, but Lennon's death was the end.

 

[Barry Poppins]

And looking at what happened during the 1980s, it's not hard to see this argument as at least plausible.

 

[Comrade Khan]

yeah all the boomers are mostly cowardly bootlickers now sadly

 

[Comrade Khan]

threw away a decade of good protest to become greedy corporate shills themselves. rip

 

[Barry Poppins]

yeah all the boomers are mostly cowardly bootlickers now sadly

I think, and this is what's desperately sad about it, is that Lennon's death is what finally scared them off from activism for good. If a man of Lennon's voice and influence could be gunned down for no good reason, what was the point then?

 

[Barry Poppins]

Reagan had just been elected the month before too.