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@kontextmaschine\u200b bait.\u00a0 A lot of Twitter discussion of how major a \u201cshifting of the eras\u201d 1968-73 was, which made/makes the culture of media set on the other side of that line seem much more distant from us.
(Pre-9/11 sociopolitical culture is significantly different, but mass culture not as striking because we already had the Internet and there hasn\u2019t been any comparable internal upheaval, at least until the last year or so.)
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I think that the place of Happy Days \u2013 a 70s show about the 50s that was still widely rerun and appreciated as a nostalgia piece in its own right in the 80s and 90s \u2013 completely mixed up any ability to parse the pop-retro of my childhood: the “Locomotion” cover, Stand by Me, Growing Pains, all the cartoons like “stray funny animals as delinquent youth in urban settings! Because that kind of parses post-integration urban decay in terms of postwar Golden Age immigrant assimilation!”
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