Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 25, 2022

Arguably the early 1960’s were right up there during the cuban missile crisis. but I missed out on the duck and cover drills because where we lived we were considered too close to survive a nuke, since the most likely target was … maybe a quarter of a mile from school, and we lived in at least one target most of the time.

Heck, my parents grew during the Depression. They lived in a tourist resort in northern Michigan, where the economy was alive between Memorial Day and Labor Day, and then zilch til next year. That, plus 33% unemployment, watching the rise of Hitler. … nothing to be frightened of there…

Being in high school and wondering how much longer the war in Viet Nam was going to last.

I was 4 1/2 when Pearl Harbor was hit. So you figure it out.

Mr. Spaetzle seems to be saying that WWII outcomes made the world safer for the world’s children of that era. Conversely, Caulfield seems to be indicating that WWII kids’ offspring’s offspring have gradually set the clock back to the bigotry and self-centered attitudes of earlier times.

I am a 30’s child, who has experienced the decades as they happened. It sure looks like both were correct.

Critical Baby-Boomer Theory?

A bit of thought went into that one. I like it.

Ignorance is bliss.

Funny that he’s blaming the boomers. He needs to read some history. Mankind hasn’t changed. What the Boomers have done is take sexual assault, molestation, forced incest, etc into the light so those behaviors can be punished. Maybe Frazz is right, it’s less frightening when ignorance was bliss.

Depending on your POV – every age was/is “The Best of Times, the Worst of Times.”

Cheap shot. Easy to blame one generation so the 3 or 4 other “generations” that followed can slouch, whine and complain.

Yeah, I knew that positive spin in panel 2 was going to be flipped around in panel 3.

Hard times make hard people.

Hard people make soft times.

Soft times make soft people.

Soft people make hard times

Rinse and repeat.

Yeah, the 60’s Civil Rights movement caused the rise of the White Supremacists. The 60’s anti-war, equal rights youth movement brought us the Reagan Revolution and Gilded Age 2.0. It’s all our fault…

Hey, when we boomers were young, we protested war!

Of course, that was when we were being sent to fight it. When it was the next generation’s turn to fight it, we created a state of endless war.

We also decided that clean air and clean water for everybody weren’t nearly as important as a billionaire’s right to hoard.

Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times

Everyone grows up wanting to change the world… to suit them, after which they resent those upstarts who want to ruin everything.

Life in the age of the Nuclear Bomb. One minute you’re here, the next you’re gone. -Tina Yothers, Family Ties. We grew up fully expecting nuclear annihilation and were brainwashed to just say NO to all of lifes pleasures because it would kill us. It’s no wonder they turned into helicopter parents

If I was a young adult now there’s no way I’d bring children into this world.

I’m trying not to think in terms of generations, because they’re illusory.

Every time FEMA responds to flood, fire, or hurricane, you can thank the nuclear war preparedness of the 50s and 60s. Before then there was no organized system of emergency preparedness in the US.