Everything Is F*cked

The Only Choice in Life
In  1954,  after  nearly  seventy-five  years  of  occupation  and  twenty  years  of
war,  the  Vietnamese  finally  kicked  the  French  out  of  their  country.  This

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should  have  been  an  unequivocally  good  thing.  The  problem  was  that  that
pesky Cold War was going on—a global religious war between the capitalist,
liberal Western powers and the Communist Eastern Bloc. And when it turned
out  that  Ho  Chi  Minh,  the  guy  who  gave  the  French  the  ass-kicking,  was  a
Communist, well, everyone kind of freaked out and thought this could spark
World War III.
Terrified  of  a  major  war,  a  bunch  of  heads  of  state  sat  down  at  a  fancy
table  somewhere  in  Switzerland  and  agreed  to  skip  the  nuclear  annihilation