Remember fallout shelters and hiding under a desk in elementary school during an air raid drill? There's always a cloud hanging over human life. In the 50's it was the specter of the Bomb that surfaced in Nevil Shute's novel On the Beach (1957) and even more famously in the Kubrick masterpiece, Dr. Strangelove (1964). Then there was AIDS which spawned its own literature and filmography. Today it's ISIS whose message spreads virally on the internet and whose ideas are planted like sexuality in la...
Remember fallout shelters and hiding under a desk in elementary school during an air raid drill? There's always a cloud hanging over human life. In the 50's it was the specter of the Bomb that surfaced in Nevil Shute's novel On the Beach (1957) and even more famously in the Kubrick masterpiece, Dr. Strangelove (1964). Then there was AIDS which spawned its own literature and filmography. Today it's ISIS whose message spreads virally on the internet and whose ideas are planted like sexuality in la...
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