America, 1970-1977

[opebo]

The seventies were the pinnacle of not only america but human achievement generally.

[opebo]

The 70's and 80's were both awful decades. It would have been better if we could have gone from 1969 right to 1989. Except for ending Vietnam and electing Gerald Ford, nothing good happened in those years. Everyone was too hairy and the movies sucked. Reagan was probably the worst tragedy to strike during that time.

You're crazy.  1989 was a very low point, and continued at the lowest of low ebbs through at least '93 or '94. 

The seventies generally and the early eighties were the high point.  My personal favorite was 1977-1983 - basically all my favorite music and style comes from that time.

[opebo]

I would argue that the cultural change seen in late 1970's early 1980's was part of the re-alignment.  Even prior aired drug jokes on The Tonight Show were censored in the early 1980's reruns.

Having lived through that, there was a marked cultural change.

Yes mainstream america was dropping off the precipice into a kind of soft fascism from around 81-85.. but like many such fin de siècle periods the art and culture was attaining a height (albeit about to be destroyed).  Not at all unlike Weimar Germany.

[opebo]

I would argue that the cultural change seen in late 1970's early 1980's was part of the re-alignment.  Even prior aired drug jokes on The Tonight Show were censored in the early 1980's reruns.

Having lived through that, there was a marked cultural change.

Yes mainstream america was dropping off the precipice into a kind of soft fascism from around 81-85.. but like many such fin de siècle periods the art and culture was attaining a height (albeit about to be destroyed).  Not at all unlike Weimar Germany.

Wrongly used word.

Which one?

Fin de siècle is French for "end of the century".  The term sometimes encompasses both the closing and onset of an era, as it was felt to be a period of degeneration, but at the same time a period of hope for a new beginning.
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