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And the {{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkman|Walkman}} symbolised it: Individualistic, technophiliac, ''selfish''.

Results were good. The Iron Curtain fell. The markets boomed. Pits closed. Shipyards shuttered. [''Where are you going with this? — Ed'']] Sure there were some ugly skirmishes, but the ideological war was won. Call it what you will: {{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaganomics|Reaganomics}}, {{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogernomics|Rogernomics}}, {{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatcherism|Thatcherism}}, {{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika|Perestroika}}, ''{{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/laissez-faire|laissez-faire}}'', {{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/deregulation|deregulation}}, {{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/monetarism|monetarism}}, around the world, [[the Man]] got out of the people's hair and left everything to the market.

Results were good. The Iron Curtain fell. The markets boomed. Pits closed. Shipyards shuttered. [''Where are you going with this? — Ed''] Sure there were some ugly skirmishes, but the ideological war was won. Call it what you will: {{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaganomics|Reaganomics}}, {{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogernomics|Rogernomics}}, {{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatcherism|Thatcherism}}, {{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika|Perestroika}}, ''{{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/laissez-faire|laissez-faire}}'', {{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/deregulation|deregulation}}, {{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/monetarism|monetarism}}, around the world, [[the Man]] got out of the people's hair and left everything to the market.

Of course there were losers, as there are in any radical rearrangement of the social order, but it wasn’t ''us''. ''We'' were on the right side of history, [[The End of History and the Last Man|which had finished anyway]].

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 And the {{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkman|Walkman}} symbolised it: Individualistic, technophiliac, ''selfish''.
-Results were good. The Iron Curtain fell. The markets boomed. Pits closed. Shipyards shuttered. [''Where are you going with this? — Ed'']] Sure there were some ugly skirmishes, but the ideological war was won. Call it what you will: {{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaganomics|Reaganomics}}, {{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogernomics|Rogernomics}}, {{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatcherism|Thatcherism}}, {{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika|Perestroika}}, ''{{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/laissez-faire|laissez-faire}}'', {{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/deregulation|deregulation}}, {{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/monetarism|monetarism}}, around the world, [[the Man]] got out of the people's hair and left everything to the market.
+Results were good. The Iron Curtain fell. The markets boomed. Pits closed. Shipyards shuttered. [''Where are you going with this? — Ed''] Sure there were some ugly skirmishes, but the ideological war was won. Call it what you will: {{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaganomics|Reaganomics}}, {{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogernomics|Rogernomics}}, {{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatcherism|Thatcherism}}, {{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika|Perestroika}}, ''{{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/laissez-faire|laissez-faire}}'', {{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/deregulation|deregulation}}, {{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/monetarism|monetarism}}, around the world, [[the Man]] got out of the people's hair and left everything to the market.
 Of course there were losers, as there are in any radical rearrangement of the social order, but it wasn’t ''us''. ''We'' were on the right side of history, [[The End of History and the Last Man|which had finished anyway]].