it was not a country under enemy siege

'It was a country of bankruptcy notices and commonplace reports of casual killings and misplaced children and abandoned homes and vandals who misspelled even the four-letter words they scrawled. Adolescents drifted from city to torn city, slouching off both the past and the future as snakes shed their skins. It was not a country in open revolution. It was not a country under enemy siege. It was the United States of America in the cold spring of 1967.'

Joan Didion, em 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' do ano de 1968, naquele que poderá classificar-se como um inegável bom exemplo de involuntária previsão. Basta mudar-se o final para it was the United States of America in the cold spring of 2009 e bate tudo muito certo.