...mostly too young , too full of conspiracies but one definite anti-social with accompanying paranoid delusions .

There are enough of us who do remember our emotions at the time to keep the memory alive however .

Geniune empathy, I'm glad that God gave us the power of emotion.

As you might expect, the New Yorker is basically a remembrance/reflection on 9/11 this week. I recommend it.

I don't remember which mag but I was at the store yesterday and happened to glance at one that had it's cover devoted to the images and I was transfixed to the point I had to shake it off to continue shopping .

Meh. The America we have today is pretty much the same as the America we had ten years ago, but with added paranoia.

That I'm aware of, Widow, ArticShadow and I are the only PaRD-ians old enough to remember the general vibe in society, post-Iran Hostage Crisis. Feels more or less the same to me. But that's just my take on it.

I think you're wrong there (on both assertions). We had a notable surge in mood when the hostages were released. Then when Reagan was shot, the country seemed to pull together even more. Partisanship today is a lot worse. I would think toady's mood is more similar to the pre-USA hockey mood--the country's going to shit; who knows what's next?

I think it goes beyond that .

On a level we don't wish to acknowledge many of us do know what's next and the thought of addressing it is too frightening almost to the point of depression resulting in a national lethargy .

Well, I think a lot of us have some ideas, but no one is really certain. There's certainly no consensus. My main point, though, is that seems to me to fit the mood of the late 70's to a T--much better than it fits the mood of the early 80's.

...oh it definitely fits the mood of the Carter years ; national malaise and an impotent president . Even some of last nights proposals were straight out of Carters plans to deal with the horrible economy .