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E. Jean Carroll's avatar

Merrill, thank you for your service.

This whole piece is brilliant. Staggering. Timely. True.

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Quentin Hardy's avatar

Besides absurd, I see more postwar PTSD - anxiety if you didn't serve, piles if you did, worrying that you're being left behind in the new postwar boom, anxiety and confusion about sexuality, making sense of the worldwide sadomasochistic cataclysm that so recently claimed 80 million lives, rampant consumerism so you didn't have to think about it.

What makes it horrible now is the boomer in chief is stuck back there, in the same stupid loop, destroying the postwar alliances to reassert the old anxieties.

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