drmstream[writing]

This is the graphic I was look­ing for. 1980 is 100, which, when you con­sider the seem­ingly pro­found dif­fer­ences in the qual­ity of life today ver­sus 40 years ago makes the resilient con­fi­dence in the midst of the Viet­nam War, cul­ture shock and pro­found racial unrest, remarkable.

The dan­ger of this time is that you stop to watch, won­der about what will come next. The para­me­ters that you assessed the future with — eco­nomic, social, polit­i­cal — are all at play. You can’t assume, and now there isn’t much con­fi­dence that you can project either. What does the utter cli­mate of uncertainty […]