[stcredzero]

Yes, and many baby boomers in their teens and twenties had comparable attitudes to the one satirized in the original article.

[pohl]

True. Erma Bombeck could laugh at herself and her everyday life struggles, and her writings resonated with bajillions.

Coincidentally, she once wrote: "When humor goes, there goes civilization."

So maybe we're doomed after all, but because Max couldn't pick up on the humor.