Ghost is very much a film of its time, just as the also - Rubin - scripted Jacob's Ladder, from the same year, pinged off the
cultural climate in another
real, essential way by predicting not the death of the Eighties, but the
transformation of the aggressive Eisenhower delusions of Reagan's voodoo cowboy foreign policy into the «history will teach us nothing» nihilism of the fast - digitizing, Luddite, Born - Again Nineties.