Wednesday, October 7, 2020

When We Were Very Young

I’ve never been a big fan of Eddie Van Halen’s songs –

Eddie Van Halen Dead at 65 After Battle With Throat Cancer - E! OnlineEddie Van Halen with Valerie Bertinelli circa 1980

although I do recognize that he was a legendary, hard working, hyper-talented guitarist.

Eddie Van Halen plays guitar in 1993.

Nor was I a fan of Peter Fonda’s modest talents, although he did deliver an iconic movie.

Peter Fonda in Peter Fonda in Easy Rider circa 1969

But as both of them have now shuffled off this mortal coil it does give me pause to reflect on the passage of time.

The 60s and 70s were consumed with bad fashion, Vietnam, drugs, sex and rock and roll – not necessarily in that order. The Reagan decade was filled with hope and economic growth while simultaneously worrying that the Japanese (the Japanese!) were stealing our industrial lunch bucket as their cars began to overtake Detroit’s in both numbers and reliability. The 90s? The Go-Go-Go decade: tech stocks, IPOs, excess up the wazoo and the Y2K panic. The aughts brought us terrorists, TSA, homeland security, FISA, Amazon and social media. Followed by the teens which provided technology and platforms for people to weaponize all of the above.

So here we are: the first year of the next decade. A Chinese launched pandemic is being used to destroy America’s economy in hopes of undermining President Trump in order to replace him with another globalist toady. The Deep State is slowly being unveiled, most recently by the declassification of documents that reveal the chicanery involved in the last presidential election. The current election is being undermined by the Democrats demand for vote-by-mail, the FA (the operative term for the group formerly known as “ANTIFA”) continue to riot at will and the Media – the group theoretically responsible for keeping society in general and politicians in specific accountable – refuses to do any honest reporting of any of it.

Ah well, at least we’re finally in a decade with a real name – “the 20s” – instead of a wimpy non-decade sounding name like “the aughts” and “the teens.”

So I guess we just keep truckin’.

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The Grateful Dead, indeed.