Venezuela In Turmoil For Lack Of Flour, Milk And Diapers

[MADem]

14. It makes me wonder, sometimes, if the enthusiasm is more to the point of a naive

"Fight the power!" meme, where any sharp stick in the USA's eye is regarded as a "good thing," regardless of the facts on the ground. Cuba is a paradise, everyone in VZ is a happy worker in a red shirt (never mind that red will hide the blood if you're shot on your way to your job where, unless you're directly associated with propping up the present regime, you might not get a timely paycheck), and, of course, anyone that points out any difficulties is a "fascist!"

I get the idea a lot of these folks are terribly sad that they "missed out" on the sixties. I can't understand the nostalgia, really--those were times that were fraught with unrest, tension and a real divide between elders and students (kind of like VZ today, in some respects). The theme, really, was "anxiety." Those unsettled times set the stage for a lot of stuff that followed, including the "greed is good" eighties, where everyone felt they had to "get theirs" before someone took it from them.