Unfortunately, this is not only funny; there’s an element of truth in it. Crack cocaine DID explode on Reagan’s watch, linked inextricably to the antidemocratic Reagan foreign policies of the 1980s. And one really does need to be on drugs to find life under (or amid) a band of thieves tolerable.
Fear doesn't travel well; just as it can warp judgment, its absence can diminish memory's truth. What terrifies one generation is likely to bring only a puzzled smile to the next. --Arthur Miller, "Why I Wrote 'The Crucible'", The New Yorker, October 21, 1996
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