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The average young adult in the 70s was frolicking around at music festivals getting high and having sex with everyone they felt like.
LOL, now there are some values I can live with.
Or, I could have in the 70s.
But music festivals end way after my bedtime these days. I've never been one for getting high, but I've transformed from a two-pitcher minimum into a two-drink maximum kind of girl ... zzzz ... Oh, well.
1976 was a fun year, because it was the Bi-Centennial, but the mid-70s were pretty crappy if you actually lived in them. The bad times began in the 1972 elections that left the country as seriously divided as it is now, with a hotter war still going on in Vietnam.
Then Nixon and the Watergate affair came along beginning just after the election and lasting into 1974, when Nixon resigned. That left the country in a very depressed mood that lasted for over a full year after it was over.
And by 1976, interest rates were going through the roof, with home loans going for 20%. Those rates set off another recession that was more stagnant than recessive. No one bought anything expensive, businesses stagnated, and the country stalled out just as all the vets began coming back home as civilians and tried to find work, get married, etc.
The cars weren't so hot in the 70s either. That was the era when Detroit's Big 3 still ruled, but their cars were built pretty sloppily.
The mood throughout the 70s was always mixed. When a good year came along and gave everyone some relief, it was always followed by a bad year, and the bad years grew incrementally worse every time they came.
It really didn't end until the mid-80s. Reagan was elected to turn the stagflation around, but his trickle-down policies just turned the stagnation into a full on recession.
Every time period after the early 60s has been a craphole more or less. Economy was terrible after the oil crisis with high unemployment, stagflation, sky high interest rates etc. Society was in the midst of rising crime rates and in the beginning stages of the off shoring of manufacturing plants to foreign countries.
Likely 80s or 90s might be better. The 90s were more a continuation of the 80s but more socially liberal to a degree. The Berlin Wall had just been tore down and the Soviet Union, dissolved. 1990s ended with a surplus of money. 1980s were more conservative than 70s or 90s. 1970s were most liberal overall. Raegan being voted into office in 1980 started a backlash against the 60s and 70s.
Die Hard and Lethal Weapon both came out in the late 80's, a very different time then the 1970's. its surprising in this thread that several movies were mentioned in the wrong decade. Disco needs to stay dead as do the hairstyles of the 70's. The 1970's were the era of Blackexplottion films, Shaft now there's a Classic.
If you re-read my post, I said STARTING in the 70's. [/i] However, I apologize that I was not sufficiently clear.
There were absolutely blacks being portrayed along side white people in professional positions in the 70s, sometimes as bosses of white people. You would think hearing progressives now that everything was racism all the time and we should be ashamed. Integration was moving along, and some radicals came along with all kinds of schemes and now we have a nice mess.
That is very well said and SO true! (Sorry I could not rep you again.)
It's because they portrayed them as pimps, hoes, flashy hero or angry, talking a certain way.
See, that is what I think is wrong with stereotyping and making generalized statements. What you said is just not generally true, just like it is true that although some whites have been portrayed as ignorant redneck hicks, the majority of whites have not been portrayed that way.
What has changed, however, is that to many extreme leftists, it is still okay to portray whites as ignorant racist bigots, but it is NOT okay to portray blacks in anything but a positive light, and/or to show them as victims of a racist society. (And, yes, to a large degree, I do agree that many blacks are victims of a racist society -- but now it is possible for many blacks to succeed in spite of that.)
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[quote=ohhwanderlust;56160303]The average young adult in the 70s was frolicking around at music festivals getting high and having sex with everyone they felt like.
Seems like behavior most conservatives would frown upon today.
Yes it was nice. Gas was .50 a gallon, no computers yet, the phone was at home on the wall tied to a wire.
You didnt feel like you might get shot when you went outside for a walk.
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