also, thinking back to the days of omnipresent nuclear threat (which of course is still there but has just faded from popular awareness), and looking at early cold war culture, with the “Duck and Cover” educational films and scifi horror movie monsters born from atomic fears (like godzilla, etc), I wonder when it was exactly when u.s. culture passed from that overt societal fear to the more accepting but unafraid awareness? At some point, perhaps in the 60s, perhaps about the time when people stopped building bomb shelters, people perhaps realized there was nothing they could do about it, like earthquakes or a tornado, and stopped having the kind of hysterical fear of nuclear war. It was just something your knew might happen. Will that happen with the ‘war on terror’ at some point, I wonder?