An Apology To Everyone 30 Or Younger

Are you pulling my leg? I have to tell you, that's not funny.

Yes it is.

America's decline began the day Kruschev was denied entry into Disneyland.

Reyn
I was on a destroyer during the Cuban Missile crisis. They cancelled all shore leave and we waited, wondering if the Russian ship would get sunk and if war would then break out. The Dylan song, "A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall" was written at this time.

My grammar school had these signs posted on it.

Yellow Black & Rectangular
Negativland

"Yellow, and black, and ..."
"And, eh ..."
"Yellow, and black, and rectangular."
"Eh rectangular, yes. And eh, eh what else?"
"Well, yellow, and black, and rectangular."
"Eh rectangular, yes. What else?"
"Well, doctor, it has kind of black,
"and yellow, and black, and ..."
"Eh rectangular, yes."
"It has kind of shapes inside."
"Yellow, black, and shapes inside."
"Oh, I see them everywhere ..."
"Eh, eh what else?"
"It has kind of wedge shapes inside."
"Yellow, black ..."
"Black, and yellow,
and ..."
"... and with ..."
"... rectangular ..."
"... wedge shapes inside."
"Oh, I see them everywhere, do you hear me?"
"Well, there there, eh just lie back ..."
"... black, and ..."
"... black, and yellow, with ..."
"... everywhere, do you hear me?"
"Well there there, Mrs. Black, eh ..."
"Well, wedge shapes."
"Mrs. Wedge"
"everywhere"
"There there, back on the couch."
"Oh, what does it mean?"
"Eh rectangular, black, and with wedge shapes inside."
"Oh, I see them everywhere, everywhere ...
"
"Just lie back on the couch."
"Oh, what does it mean?"
"Yellow, and with black shapes ..."
"Wedge shapes inside."
"... inside."
"Oh, everywhere, do you hear me?"
"Well there there, back on the couch."
"Oh, what does it mean?"
"Mrs. Yellow, eh,"
"back on the couch."
"Oh, what does it mean? Am I losing my mind?"
"Just lie back on the couch."
"Oh, what does it mean?"
"Eh, just lie back ..."
"Am I losing my mind?"
"There there ..."
"everywhere do you hear me?, everywhere"
"Just lie back ..."

"Do you hear me?"
"Well there there, Mrs. ..."
"Everywhere, do you hear me?"
"Well there there ..."
"Do you hear me?"
"Well, eh, Mrs. ..."
"rectangular"
"Mrs. Rectangular, yes. Eh ..."
"Am I losing my mind?"
"What you have been seeing everywhere you look are those yellow and
black signs used to indicate a fallout shelter in buildings."
"So, you see these signs too, Dr. Black?"
"Why, sure, Mrs. Rectangular."
"Well, I feel better already."

Its that song if nothing else that Sting will get shot for (even if I have to do so myself)

Agree with the angst tho. When I was in high school, us kids were seriously discussing how it would be better not to have children, because the chances of the world being blown up or freezing into a nuclear winter before they grew old were in our view something like half/half, and who would want to do that to them?

i always preferred this sentiment, billy bragg does an excellent version

Think Again
Dick Gaughan

Do you think that the Russians want war?
These are the parents of children who died in the last one
Do you think that it's possible, knowing their past
That they'd ever consider repeating the last
When 20 million were slaughtered by Nazi invasion?
They died fighting on our side, you know,
In a fight to defend humankind
Against Nazi terror and hatred

In the name of humanity, bitterly torn
In the name of our children as yet to be born
Before we do that which can never be undone I beg of you
Think, think again, and again and again and again and again

Do you think that the Russians want war?
They're the sons and the daughters of parents who died in the last one
Do you think that they'd want to go through that again
The destruction, the bloodshed, the suffering and pain?
In the second world war out of every 3 dead one was Russian
If we try with all of our power
Can we not find a way
To peacefully settle our difference?

Do you think that the Russians want war?
Will the voice of insanity lead you to total destruction?
Will you stumble to death as though you were blind?
Will you cause the destruction of all humankind?
Will you die because you don't like their political system?
There will be no survivors you know
No one left to scream in the night
And condemn our stupidity