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I was shown “The Day After” when I was 11. It destroyed my innocence. Every time a plane went over I was scared it was the Russian ICBMs coming to nuke us. Wh

I was shown “The Day After” when I was 11. It destroyed my innocence. Every time a plane went over I was scared it was the Russian ICBMs coming to nuke us. What a fucked up thing to do to a child.

cgriswald 3y ago
There’s an episode of some sci-fi anthology show[0] where this woman is struggling with the chaos in her life, loses it in a supermarket and starts yelling, “Shut up!” She quickly learns she can pause time by doing so and start it again by saying, “Start talking.” She used it in predictable ways. The episode ends with an impending nuclear attack and she screams, “Shut up!” at the news cast and the sirens and her crying family. The world stops, she steps outside, and looks up at an ICBM frozen above the city. I saw this when I was somewhere around the age of 10. I didn’t see The Day After or any of the real serious nuclear stuff. But there’s a piece of my mind that still exists in that episode of that show. Stuff hits you weird when you’re a kid in ways I don’t think most adults remember. And I only say weird because hard isn’t the right word and I don’t think how it hits is always predictable. [0]I thought it was the second version of The Twilight Zone which aired about the right time, but I can’t find such an episode.
- jacquesm 3y ago
  This is the one you are thinking of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or1UX7z8YBM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or1UX7z8YBM "A little peace and quiet", 1985.
  - cgriswald 3y ago
    Yes, that’s it. Thanks! Interesting how 40 years will scramble things around in memory.
    - jacquesm 3y ago
      You're welcome. I am a huge fan of the series and wished that there were more episodes, they are a fascinating glimpse of the past.
thinkingemote 3y ago
Children today are apparently having nightmares about climate change, and depicting apocalypse scenarios when asked to visualise the future. Stories are given to children all the time and it effects them. I still remember nightmares about nuclear apocalypses. Threads contributed. Children today will remember the nightmares we give them today and then go on to give their own children new nightmares in responses to their parents emergency. Can it be ever moral? Is it only sometimes necessary? How can trauma be prevented? Can information be given effectively?

cgriswald 3y ago

There’s an episode of some sci-fi anthology show[0] where this woman is struggling with the chaos in her life, loses it in a supermarket and starts yelling, “Shut up!” She quickly learns she can pause time by doing so and start it again by saying, “Start talking.” She used it in predictable ways. The episode ends with an impending nuclear attack and she screams, “Shut up!” at the news cast and the sirens and her crying family. The world stops, she steps outside, and looks up at an ICBM frozen above the city. I saw this when I was somewhere around the age of 10. I didn’t see The Day After or any of the real serious nuclear stuff. But there’s a piece of my mind that still exists in that episode of that show. Stuff hits you weird when you’re a kid in ways I don’t think most adults remember. And I only say weird because hard isn’t the right word and I don’t think how it hits is always predictable. [0]I thought it was the second version of The Twilight Zone which aired about the right time, but I can’t find such an episode.

jacquesm 3y ago
This is the one you are thinking of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or1UX7z8YBM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or1UX7z8YBM "A little peace and quiet", 1985.
- cgriswald 3y ago
  Yes, that’s it. Thanks! Interesting how 40 years will scramble things around in memory.
  - jacquesm 3y ago
    You're welcome. I am a huge fan of the series and wished that there were more episodes, they are a fascinating glimpse of the past.

thinkingemote 3y ago

Children today are apparently having nightmares about climate change, and depicting apocalypse scenarios when asked to visualise the future. Stories are given to children all the time and it effects them. I still remember nightmares about nuclear apocalypses. Threads contributed. Children today will remember the nightmares we give them today and then go on to give their own children new nightmares in responses to their parents emergency. Can it be ever moral? Is it only sometimes necessary? How can trauma be prevented? Can information be given effectively?