Writer's Block: Day of German Unity
Oct. 3rd, 2008 11:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Nostalgic for a war? Are you kidding?
This has to be a question from someone who doesn't remember the Cold War.
The Cold War wasn't always Cold. I remember newly-arrived draft dodgers coming and doing household work for my parents, with body parts missing. (I admired them so much! Heroes.) I remember a sense of frustration with the world - all that fighting and squabbling and fear. Things do not look simpler in retrospect. The instability now and the instability then? Not that much difference.
Sadly, I was thinking about this yesterday: how it all feels like the same old battles being fought over the same old things for the same old reasons by the same sorts of people. Back in the sixties, I really believed that my generation could improve the world. Give peace a chance. Imagine there's no heaven.
Paul McCartney thrilled me by advocating peace in his concert in Israel a week ago. What happened to all the anti-war songs? Are people still writing them?
What good do I remember coming out of the Cold War? James Bond novels and movies. (We still have those.) I once during that era read a rather cool spy novel in translation, in which the hero-spy was Bulgarian... wish I could remember the name of the spy, the author, or the book. The Cold War was a factor in The Professionals, too.
Nostalgic for a war? Are you kidding?
This has to be a question from someone who doesn't remember the Cold War.
The Cold War wasn't always Cold. I remember newly-arrived draft dodgers coming and doing household work for my parents, with body parts missing. (I admired them so much! Heroes.) I remember a sense of frustration with the world - all that fighting and squabbling and fear. Things do not look simpler in retrospect. The instability now and the instability then? Not that much difference.
Sadly, I was thinking about this yesterday: how it all feels like the same old battles being fought over the same old things for the same old reasons by the same sorts of people. Back in the sixties, I really believed that my generation could improve the world. Give peace a chance. Imagine there's no heaven.
Paul McCartney thrilled me by advocating peace in his concert in Israel a week ago. What happened to all the anti-war songs? Are people still writing them?
What good do I remember coming out of the Cold War? James Bond novels and movies. (We still have those.) I once during that era read a rather cool spy novel in translation, in which the hero-spy was Bulgarian... wish I could remember the name of the spy, the author, or the book. The Cold War was a factor in The Professionals, too.
