Is that a thing?? Someone asked.
A mix of crowd in pressed fancy clothes and blue jeans mingled around more listening than in conversations. An eddy between generations where
As in "PC" standing for or representing the term "politically correct"
People had taken stands too, held ground, lost ground, chosen tribe within nation, donned political team colors
Red, Blue, or Purple?
Red and blue together as primary colors make the color purple so the designation of "purple state" had crept into the jargon of election year.
Peanut Gallery: we don't care, we just want
Andrew Dice Clay would not stop cursing in his comedy show; Eddie Murphy worked the how hard it is to change, to stop using the "f-curse", into a routine; Jerry Seinfeld proved hysterical without using the controversial cussing. Radio commentators brought up the issue of comedians and swearing as a real life example of larger, more complex social-mixing issues in America. Unsaid? Everybody knows in one of those election years "all about the economy" things are/are not just about personal moral choice(s).
There were some with outrageous lifestyle and fashion and of these, some sparked trends, some legend, some developed "cult" followings. Old words used to settle/rile the masses to voting opinion on the matters were disrupted as buzz and used more liberally and lazily than the letters of the Law.
While "lifestyle" was finding venue on the fringe to beltway, the hallowed halls of academia was not surprised but sometimes acted surprised to find
Exiles?
Are these people still alive?
The very questions coming out of the mouths of teenagers in higher education had some drawing in a breath and not exhaling. Had it been that thirty-year cycle thing? Was the next generation already grown up?
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