Question: what is the point of we didn't start the fire

title: We Didn't Start the Fire
text: Joel got the idea for the song when he had just turned 40 . He was in a recording studio and met a friend of Sean Lennon who had just turned 21 who said `` It 's a terrible time to be 21 ! '' Joel replied to him , `` Yeah , I remember when I was 21 -- I thought it was an awful time and we had Vietnam , and y'know , drug problems , and civil rights problems and everything seemed to be awful . '' The friend replied , `` Yeah , yeah , yeah , but it 's different for you . You were a kid in the fifties and everybody knows that nothing happened in the fifties '' . Joel retorted , `` Wait a minute , did n't you hear of the Korean War or the Suez Canal Crisis ? '' Joel later said those headlines formed the basic framework for the song . 

Answer: answer: Joel got the idea for the song when he had just turned 40 and met a friend who had just turned 21 who said ``It 's a terrible time to be 21!''.  Joel replied "I remember, we had Vietnam, and y'know, drug problems, and civil rights problems and everything seemed to be awful.''  The friend replied, ``Yeah,  but it's different for you. You were a kid in the fifties and everybody knows that nothing happened in the fifties''. Joel retorted, ``Wait a minute , didn't you hear of the Korean War or the Suez Canal Crisis?''. Joel later said those headlines formed the basic framework for the song.