felt dark. The 90s felt extremely optimistic. The 80s felt a little surreal, I guess. There was some surreal quality to it. There was also cocaine was big in the 80s, money, finance, recklessness with respect to money that was captured in the movie Wall Street, Oliver Stone's movie Wall Street, but a number of other movies, the secret to my success with Michael J. Fox or Risky Business with Tom Cruise. The 2010s, the 2000s felt, I think, scary and there was a lot of darkness. The 2010s, I don't know. I mean there was a period of darkness after the financial crisis, but I think there's just a surreal quality to them and I think so much of that is driven by the technology. But there's of course the overhang of terrorism that's there. There is this confusion about America's place in the world. In the 2000s, after 9-11, there was no confusion about America's place in the world. We were top dog. We were number one. There was no question when Bush met with Putin who was the boss. I don't (26/32)
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