I’ve already dated myself a hundred times over, so it’s no secret that I was an 80‘s child. Solid Gen X, and man, it was a great time to grow up. Sure, age has made me look at some things with rose-tinted glasses. We did have the Cold War, high crime, plane bombings, latch-key kids, pollution, and a bunch of other social problems. It wasn’t all great, but it was pretty good.

We did have the advantage of growing up pre-internet which, while it made doing homework harder, meant that we avoided...