has everyone gone insane?

[rm]

Olbermann vs. Hannity reaches new levels of batshittery:

http://www.wowowow.com/politics/olbermann-pony-big-money-every-second-hannity-waterboarded-video-276465

via nancylebov

Comments

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty much hoping that the Crazy Years have crested.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I agree. I'm also fairly certain that in 10-15 years the first history books describing the 7 or 8 years after September 11 as a strange & disturbing episode of collective madness in the US will be published and read by puzzled college students too young to remember how insane things were.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Actually, Robert Heinlein coined the phrase in the Thirties to describe his fictional future history. The Crazy Years are the last half of the 20th century, and the very first part of the 21st.

He wasn't trying to prognosticate, he just wanted a fictional framework for stories that would seem plausible.

His reasoning was:a)nobody in the dominant culture really believes that anything is going to change;b)everything IS going to change;and c)frustrated expectations make people become unhinged.

Good call.