General Discussion

This made me recall the decade of the 50s. The dramatic flash and roaring walls of destruction, with their ensuing, trademark mushroom clouds being observed by solemn men on conning towers and in bunkers, widely broadcast on television and movie news reels around the globe.
As the 50s rolled into the early 60s, the audience (humanity in this case) observed, with mouthes often agape, as the mistakes grew right along with the technology. The absurdity of it all became overwhelming and busted out in ridicule and rejection during the late 60s and early 70s, and those years then were marked by our citizenry's unrest while it frantically cast about to become an audience again.
Eventually, Jimmy Carter and Ronnie Raygun became sign posts at a fork in the road where our sliver of recently reassembled audience chose wrong.