re: #217 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

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Being 62 years old also gives me some first hand knowledge of at least part of that alleged golden age. The various faux-nostalgists who idealize the 60s are especially laughable, in a gruesome kind of way. It was an age of strife and confusion, when you could be forced into the army at gun point or, conversely, beaten to death because “love it or leave it” types did not like your haircut. There were no laws against sexual harassment and the objectification of women was a cultural fetish, almost a science. Deodorant came in spray cans with chlorofluorocarbon propellants and nobody thought anything of it. Even the most basic of pollution controls brought howls of protest from car manufacturers and car enthusiasts. There were 3 tv networks and about 10 guys who all knew each other decided what you did and didn’t see on the evening news. We remember the classic rock of the time, and that truly was a golden age, but most pop music was garbage, justly forgotten today. The same was true of movies and tv dramas, where the leaden plot-lines and wooden characters competed with the screeching, dissonant musical scores in an apparent effort to destroy American taste and sensibility forever.