Alice: Why do you have that cannon in your front yard?
Bob: To keep the tigers away.
Alice: But there are no tigers around here.
Bob: See? It works.
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It's hard to credit now, but I recall the real existential dread of the bomb. Reagan talking about the "Evil Empire". As a kid I was scared of nuclear war.
Today we still have the nukes but everybody's pretty relaxed about it. Hypersonic weapons are on the horizon (not literally, thank God) which are crazy destabilizing to the international détente. No one cares. "War is so last century."? "Space Force"!? We're not out of the woods yet.
The hippies were right: peace and love are the answers.
Bob: To keep the tigers away.
Alice: But there are no tigers around here.
Bob: See? It works.
- - - -
It's hard to credit now, but I recall the real existential dread of the bomb. Reagan talking about the "Evil Empire". As a kid I was scared of nuclear war.
Today we still have the nukes but everybody's pretty relaxed about it. Hypersonic weapons are on the horizon (not literally, thank God) which are crazy destabilizing to the international détente. No one cares. "War is so last century."? "Space Force"!? We're not out of the woods yet.
The hippies were right: peace and love are the answers.