Just Say Now: Help Stamp Out Nostalgia
By “bunch,” Dlllenburg, who is a 29-year-old records officer at a small Chicago college, is referring to himself, his pal Bruce Elliott in LA, and Elliott’s pal John in New York. Dillenburg can’t remember John’s last name. Their movement advances under the banner of the National Association for the Advancement of Time (NAFTAT).
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Dillenburg and his cohorts are sick of baby boomers and the undigested 60s, “This huge generation is obsessed with themselves, obsessed with their own past, and that’s why we have this classic rock and crap like The Wonder Years. If they want to wallow in their own past that’s all right, but the problem is they’re making us live there, too. I was born in 1960. I know people younger than I am who know even less about the 60s than I do and they’re obsessed by the 60s. They’re as obsessed by it as these hideous old boomers are, they’ve been brainwashed. They see all this crap on television–25th anniversary specials of things that weren’t important then and certainly aren’t important now–four Englishmen on television, give me a break! About Rubber Soul–the Beatles are interesting, but ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’?–give me a break! You can dance to it but it’s not the meaning of life.”
Then there are the slogans: “Just say now.” “We want to end the 60s in your lifetime.” “Help make nostalgia a thing of the past.” “All decades are created equal.” And the war cry “Get a Life!” Passage of these sallies into the national consciousness is limited to the circulation of Dillenburg’s leaflets.
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