wizzstick!
Sympathies with your situation. It's tough when you're stuck, surrounded by your nearest and dearest who can't see what you see. 'No-man's land' is right. I was a teen in the early '80s too. Remember the hype about the UN's Year of Peace? Tapping into the Cold War tensions and fears about impeding nuclear conflict? I was quite apathetic about the 1995 'generation' change ... until my dh pointed out what a big deal it was (he was astonished by it). Still it didn't shake me awake. A build-up of other concerns eventually did, however.