ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Advances move at light speed, making it harder for old-timers to explain certain things to youngsters. Millennials struggle to grasp once-familiar concepts like rotary phones, handwritten driving directions, and TVs that required you to get up to change the channel.
I suppose young adults who grew up from 1920-1933 had similar difficulty getting future generations to believe the Eighteenth Amendment existed, notwithstanding stories about Eliot Ness and “The Untouchables.”
“No, for real!” grandparents might say. “Alcoholic beverages were illegal!”
Nearly 100 years after the Volstead Act ushered in Prohibition, we stand at another societal crossroads.