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Folks growing up in the '50s, '60s, '70s, and early '80s will remember the existential threat of that era: communism.
ISIS has a long way to go before it can capture the fear of total nuclear annihilation. The vietnam war, the korean war, the cold war, domino theory, the day after, red dawn, war games, duck-and-cover drills in school...
Whenever I hear hand-wringing from these youngsters about ISIS, I have to chuckle. Back in my day we had real existential threats, sonny.
Now I'm going back to watch my copy of Rocky iV. On VHS of course.
"Now get offa my lawn!"
Well, the Doomsday Clock is today at 23:57, the lowest it has ever been in history since 1960...
The Doomsday Clock is a completely irrelevant sound bite. I find it absurd that anyone even cares enough to talk about it in this day and age.