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Bantering around the Clarion Content's editorial offices has revealed a consensus that "wack" is back. Once part of the standard verbiage of the youth of the seventies and eighties "wack" had been on an unofficial cultural hiatus. It had moved to the fringes. It had, if you would, become a little wack to use the word wack.

In the office, the speculation on wack's re-rise centered on the times. The culture of the seventies had a brief redux in the late nineties, when trends like bell bottoms and the song "I will Survive" resurfaced. The era was nostalgically treated in "Dazed and Confused" and "That 70's Show," but this was all a few years back, and it didn't bring wack back. Rather it is the times today, now- the era, the age, the situation. This decade, call it the aughts or the double zeroes as you will, but the way things are going, things; in our lives and society are more wack! Ergo it is more appropriate to use the word wack these days.

In the nineties when the most wack political shit happening was Oval Offices blowjobs and Lincoln Bedroom rentals, wack was not the cultural norm. The stock market was still booming, the real estate market was humming too. Kids of the 90's generation, born after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviets as a potentially world annihilating enemy, had not seen that much wack shit. Suddenly, September 11th, 2001 shifts the paradigm.

It follows that as much wack shit happens in a decade as had happened in the whole lives of their parents. Two wars, America's evisceration as the world's beacon of liberty, massive wealth collapse and unemployment: cumulatively a yawning vision that augurs they might finally be that proverbial generation that grows-up to do not quite as well as their parents did; fiscally.

Wack, indeed.

Labels: Language, Politics