Kids, Madison Avenue is lying to you. Your parents are lying to you. The president is lying to you.
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Kids, Madison Avenue is lying to you. Your parents are lying to you. The president is lying to you.
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They don’t want to know. Maybe they realize that their yuppie parents who protested Vietnam have turned on their ideals and are now struggling to buy a Lexus or whatever.
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they’ve got television and the electronic games that they can bury themselves in like ostriches. They don’t have to pay attention to what’s going on in the world around them.
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Mad was wide open. Bill loved it, and he was a capitalist Republican. I loved it, and I was a liberal Democrat.
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These kids don’t know what to revolt against, so they just completely ignore it, which is a very frightening thing.
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Young Baby Boomers were forced to play duck-and-cover in school, in hopes that a desk would protect them from an atomic explosion. It was all bullshit, and they knew it.
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What we went to World War II for, at least in my mind, was not getting taken care of. It was supposed to be a brave new world, but we were getting back into the old ruts, and we were in a cold war with Russia.
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It was also the root cause of EC’s success; kids were looking for ways to numb themselves to this horror that they felt.
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The bipartisan approach filtered up through my typewriter. I used to say, “Mad takes on both sides.”
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That went for the writers, too; they all had their own political leanings, and everybody had a voice. But the voices were mostly critical. It was social commentary, after all.
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