tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3978834198689217453.post1770286884455279687..comments2023-05-10T06:32:56.403-04:00Comments on Gutter Talk: It Was 40 Years Ago Today--Nixon, Kirby, the Great Disaster and the End of the 60sRay "!!" Tomczakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04414983266540609266noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3978834198689217453.post-76799966874540069282012-06-17T20:52:34.872-04:002012-06-17T20:52:34.872-04:00Great post.Great post.Crowdaddynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3978834198689217453.post-49628610112282992482012-06-17T15:27:32.871-04:002012-06-17T15:27:32.871-04:00Wow. I knew you'd been planning this article i...Wow. I knew you'd been planning this article in advance so as to have it ready for your readers on the actual anniversary, so seeing it here now is no suprise to me. However, either because of the extra prep time or your facination with this period of American history, this is one of the best Gutter Talk articles I've read in recent memory.<br /><br />Whether or not Kamandi 15 is or is not one of Kirby's better efforts is beside the point. The comic made you think, which makes it a winner in my eyes. The way it dovetails so nicely with the premice of this article ("It doesn't mean much--NOW--") made me think as well. <br /><br />I'm too young to have lived through the end of the 60s, but I was coming of age in the 90s and remember those social debacles well. I had a history teacher encourage me and my classmates to read the Starr report. He said it was the closest we would get to reading Penthouse Forum in the national newspapers.<br /><br />As you note, sociological decades do not always coincide with numerical ones, and the Watergate bugging is clearly a defining moment of your generation, just as the Clinton impeachemnt was one of mine. I can't help but wonder, however: must it always be disasterous events (the Kennedy assasination, the Watergate scandal, etc.) that cap sociological decades? I'm tempted to speculate that the 90s ended either on September 11th 2001 or with the subsequent introduction of the Patriot Act. Are you inclined to agree?<br /><br />Powerful stuff, Ray. Thank you for posting this.Jonathon Riddlenoreply@blogger.com