Narrator: they did in fact take it.

Getting old is watching all your former 'rebel' friends become the Empire.

And worse, watching your former empire friends, seem more like the rebels.

and then realizing they're all assholes and none of them really care about anyone other than themselves and this movie was fun, but a horrible horrible way to view the world.

The real struggle is going on at your local town/neighborhood meeting and voting for the city rep you have never heard of is the one making the biggest impact on your life.

The genius of Mandami, that everybody ignores, is he is entire focused on small potatoes local issues that actually effect the voters lives. But in america, filling pot holes and auditing/moving budget items for more pragmatic spending, makes you a communist, or something. Real change is in the boring details, not the grand historical narrative.

Spoiler alert, we continued to take it.

is true ... but alas every generation makes it worse.

Am Gen x, 30 years ago I assumed that when the old boomers died off things would be better as we took over. Now Im left watching horrified as Gen X just helps make it even worse and I hear Gen Z repeating the same inane missives my gen did at an early age.

It's the thing that moved me from a slightly right of center 20yr old to a left green supporter here in Australia at 58. More of the same stupidity won't do anything but make it worse.

We didn't start the Fire (boomer Joel song) might be true but we're making it worse by just pouring more fuel on said fire.

Only one generation believed that the boys would be back in town (spoiler: they were)

Dee Snyder gave my third favorite testimony in front of a Senate committee ever where he accused Tipper Gore of being a sexual deviant.

#1 is Fred Rogers securing funding for PBS and #2 is Bob Denver breaking Al Gore’s heart and leaving early for a meeting with NASA

Spoiler,: Those who didn't take it, died...

I guarantee Dee Snider didn't think that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FbBpvoYKpc&t=38

I can hear this picture…

When I was a kid, I didn't understand a lot. Everytime I asked a question, the adults in the room would say "you'll understand when you're older".

Ok. It's been like 38 years......I still don't understand.

What exactly is Dee Snyder supposed to be with this look??? If this look were invented today, I would think he's mocking trans people. But this was the mid 80s. I never in my life heard the term "trans" until maybe 2010. So in 1985, they weren't a focal point of society. If they existed at all they were very rare. Not well known enough for an anti trans image to make sense in 1985.

So, what is he supposed to be with this look? A caveman??? A manniquinn??? I have no idea what I'm he's going for here.

Side note: This stripped back version is pretty good.