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We thought it would be fun to follow up on our recent episode with Karl Mamer where we talked about a few of the founders of the survivalist movement.

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In that episode, Jules and I put forward the idea that Cold War fears about a nuclear holocaust combined with the post WWII super boom economy created an anxious tension that rippled though US culture—specifically White culture in the US.

This is a society that was reading articles in Popular Science with titles like “If Your House Were A-Bombed”.

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It wasn’t just nuclear war that was squeezing people’s imaginations. After WWII, pretty much every aspect of life had been altered for huge numbers of people in the US. 

The US went into that war flying bi-planes and came out of it with jets, rockets, and nuclear bombs.

All that sublimated anxiety can’t stay contained. One of the ways it burbled up to the surface was in movies.

That brings us to the 1971 post-apocalyptic fantasy, Omega Man starring Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, and Rosalind Cash and directed by Boris Sagal.

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