I wrote my high school final essay on Thompson (you were supposed to pick your favorite writers and I was 18 and on my way to journalism school.) and used this piece heavily.
It felt prescient in 2015 and it’s only more so ten years on.
and now we know there was basically no end to the wartime economy nor the surveillance state even when the war officially ended. And now it's only going to get worse
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It felt prescient in 2015 and it’s only more so ten years on.
But yes he was wrong about which generation would be the first to have a standard of living below their parents. It’s Millennials.