To add to the point about Alien. At one point Ripley finds out the ship's crew is judged expendable by their company super computer. It's not just inflexible rules, but about a company that cares about its interests over your value as a human being.
A computer is just an enforcer of rules which were written by humans. The algorithm which demotes content on youtube is just a systematization of choices made by humans. A company is just an institutionalization of decisions made by humans. The point made by FEE is that the harm comes most often from distant top-down rules/decisions which are disconnected from your local reality. In these cases, the business, the computer, the algorithm, are all just enforcement mechanisms.
Thanks for this. I've been trying to maintain as much of a sense of normalcy as I can for the sake of my kids and that'd helped keep me positive. They're on the sofa watching Tom and Jerry and drinking smoothies. Yesterday they rode bikes with the neighbor kids. Monday we go strawberry picking. If ever I'm feeling overwhelmed by all the negativity, I disconnect from the web and go spend time with them. Life is so much simpler and joyful when viewed through the eyes of children.
@@JackFalltrades yes. AND 2001 and 2020-2021 but there has been several food processing plants that have accidentally been burnt down and there is also baby formula shortage.
Yeah it's not great. I get what you mean, you don't feel alone any more...but it's awful that we live in a serpico and chinatown-esque world. Corruption and greed and evil win and we the people lose. I mean...look at the president and his son....awfully strange that not so long ago hinter was making millions off a Ukrainian oil company and no one questioned anything. Everything is so obviously blackened with corruption and nothing is done. A show trial about a woman celeb slandering a male celeb gets constant coverage and fools wait outside just to yell...meanwhile a trial that couldve implicated the people around and or INVOLVED in said show trial is silenced and memory holed.
Lol I listen to boomers tell me how the best to time to be alive was in 1972. Can't wait to tell future generations that the best time to live was 2022.
Don't forget... rap existed back then as well. Perhaps part of the trouble is that time has a way of rotting away the trash to let the gold shine through. I'm certain there was garbage music back then also, but since it was garbage, it was tossed aside for the good things. These days, there's such a glut of content that it's hard to find the nuggets of gold in the sea of mediocre trash that hasn't rotted away yet.
Personally, I think pop culture will get better when the writers, producers, and directors stopped pushing agendas to focus on entertainment for entertainment's sake.
Okay, but let's not forget that the 70's also gave us the original Star Wars, Up In Smoke, Smokey and the Bandit, Animal House, The Villain, Blazing Saddles, Every Which Way But Loose, and the Life of Brian among many more. It wasn't all doom and gloom. Also, Alien is totally worth an episode just for itself. Still relevant to this day on many levels.
Do you guys want to know what’s freaky? The gas ⛽️ prices that we have now are higher than the gas prices in the film “I Am Legend”. I’m not kidding. I know that’s not a 70-80s film but still it’s really freaking me out that our prices are higher than the apocalypse prices lol 😆
Really great video. I've found that a lot of things that upsets me or fills me with dread for the future can be alleviated by simply avoiding social media and television news opinion shows. If I dont consume those the list of things to worry about gets drastically smaller.
One very good thing about the 70's was that it really took the wind out of the Keynesian economic theory. High unemployment happening at a time of high inflation was something that the followers of Keynes assured everyone could not possibly happen.
Yet they never gave up on their claims. Indeed, Barak Obama was the Keynesian President doing exactly what Maynard wanted the Federal government to do. And Biden is just Obama's third term, with the harm having metalized behind the bright period of Trump's 4 years (think walking ghost period of radiation poisoning).
@@davidford3115 The Economists went out and created variants like "Neo-keynesianism." Very few, outside of Paul Krugman, still consider themselves a "classical Keynesian," and they acknowledge the problems in The General Theory, and have pretty much abandoned it in favor of new "sects". You are making the case that the politicians did not change, and are still Keynesians. Of course they didn't, because John Maynard Keynes told the politicians and bureaucrats that it was easy and necessary for political intervention in the economy to ensure maximum efficiency. Of course the politicians won't abandon him. Keynes himself summed up the problem quite pithily: “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.” -- John Maynard Keynes Indeed, the Keynesian Plantation is full of eager politician slaves because the slaves find the defunct "Massa Keynes" so empowering and validating of his chattel, and indulgently endorsing of the activities they are already predisposed to do.
@@garyblack8717 Sadly true, yet those of us who learned the lessons from example have to pay the price for the fools who need to learn by personal experience.
But chaosgyro, you know what they say? Some things in life are bad They can really make you mad Other things just make you swear and curse When you're chewing on life's gristle Don't grumble, give a whistle And this'll help things turn out for the best And Always look on the bright side of life Always look on the light side of life If life seems jolly rotten (hoo-hoo) There's something you've forgotten (hoo-hoo) And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing (hoo-hoo-hoo) When you're feeling in the dumps (hoo-hoo) Don't be silly, chumps (hoo-hoo) Just purse your lips and whistle, that's the thing (hoo-hoo) And Always look on the bright side of life (Come on) Always look on the right side of life For life is quite absurd (hoo-hoo) And death's the final word (hoo-hoo) You must always face the curtain with a bow (hoo-hoo-hoo) Forget about your sin (hoo-hoo) Give the audience a grin (hoo-hoo) Enjoy it, it's your last chance anyhow So always look on the bright side of death A-just before you draw your terminal breath Life's a piece of shit (hoo-hoo) When you look at it (hoo-hoo) Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true (hoo-hoo-hoo) You'll see it's all a show (hoo-hoo) Keep 'em laughin' as you go (hoo-hoo) Just remember that the last laugh is on you (hoo-hoo-hoo) And Always look on the bright side of life Always look on the right side of life (C'mon chaosgyro, cheer up) Always look on the bright side of life Always look on the bright side of life (Worse things happen at sea, you know?) Always look on the bright side of life (what have you got to lose?) (You know, you come from nothing, you're going back to nothing) (What have you lost? Nothing) always look on the bright side of life (Nothing will come from nothing you know what they say?) Always look on the bright side of life (cheer up, ya old bugger, c'mon, give us a grin) (There y'are, see? It's the end of the film) (Incidentally, this record is available in the foyer) Always look on the bright side of life (some of us got to live as well, you know?) (All right, that's the lot, let's get this place knocked down) Always look on the bright side of life (the whole show's dismantled in three weeks) Who do you think pays for all this rubbish?) Always look on the bright side of life (they'll never make their money back, you know) (I told him, I said to him, "Bernie" I said, "they'll never make their money back") Always look on the bright side of life
"Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events." -Robert A. Heinlein
Heinlein, Asimov, Arhtur C. Clarke, and Carl Sagan were all an inspiration for "classic Star Trek". And during the 1970s and 1980s, embraced their mantra. Sadly, Alex Kurtzman understands nothing from those great futurists in his nihilistic version of Trek.
Love him or hate him, Trump was in charge during the best financial time in my life. A pandemic was needed to take him out and all it did is help prove just how well he did. Biden could not have messed up any worse than he and his handlers have.
@@FTChomp9980 Trump was a legendary president and yet people STILL are talking shit about him lmao. They still call anyone they disagree with trumpers and call anyone who isnt a dumbass communist a "bible clutching conservative" and they also call ya racist too lmfao
Why don't you ask your tax cut companies why despite the tax cut you get all this inflation. Perhaps the difference between Obama and Biden is that there was. Trump between, it makes no sense to blame Biden when with Obama there was no such kind of a problem, and you got two terms of it, wanna blame a president perhaps blame Trump since he could handle the pandemic, for him it will all would disappear like for magic, like many of his supporters believe, things happens for magic
@@grinningtiki220 So true. They are proof positive why high turnover in positions of power is a good thing. "Politicians and diapers need to be changed often, and for the same reasons," -Mark Twain, aka Samuel Clemens.
Well, and the 80s were a period of hope and optimism in the wake of the 1970s. Keep in mind that part of that was due to the few positive media productions like TOS and TNG Star Trek.
Shit, man. I just had a depressive episode this week that I got rid of. I don't need another one! :D Really though, thanks for making these videos. I may not watch them in their intirety today or tomorrow, but soon I'll revisit them and soak in all that philosophical goodness.
I'm blessed to have grown up in the 90's. Its a time I can remember very vividly so to have the video end on such a note of optimism is the dash of encouragement I needed. So thanks!
>The 70s also had a bloody and unpopular war in Vietnam which ended just like in Afghanistan. For contrast, the world saw the a unpopular "war" in Ukraine, whose soldiers were just dipstick Redditors flying there for klout.
I would say worse that Afghanistan. At least Vietnam had evacuations like Operation Babylift. Contrast that to General Donahu leaving behind civilians so he could have room for this captured war trophy. I distinctly remember seeing videos of helicopters being pushed off carrier decks to make room for Saigon evacuees.
Some other good 70's films that mirrored sentiments at the time: The Parallax View Colossus: The Forbin Project Capricorn One The China Syndrome Most thrillers made in that decade had the "just another victim"-type ending.
It's like the 70s minus the good music, awesome movies, and cool muscle cars. Another thing this decade lacks is the optimism for a better future; because despite how crummy things got in the 70s there was still hope that things would improve. This was reflected in the following decade, the 1980s. Unfortunately for today's youth (Millennials, Gen Z, & Gen Alpha) all metrics indicate that they will be comparatively worse off than their parents & grandparents (Boomers & Gen X).
Another point of hope is that, in 1976, in the midst of all that, a young filmmaker named George Lucas told a producer friend, “I’m tired of all this doom and gloom and serious stuff. I want to make something that gives people hope.” I honestly think we’re on the verge of the next Star Wars.
You failed to mention a small movie made in 77 that changed the way people were viewing the world....you might have heard of it, it was called Star Wars. One optimistic film changed the way we saw ourselves in an instant.
Don't forget Star Trek which was in production during the early 1970s and in syndication during the late 70s. And the popularity of Trek made it possible for Star Wars to be so successful. And today it seems that the two franchises are still in symbiosis as both fandoms are livid over the vandalization by Alex Kurtzman and Kathleen Kennedy.
@@brainderp808 Nobody thought the US would have a Civil War in 1860 until PTG Beauregard fired on Fort Sumpter. Don't succumb to positivity bias. Don't think that it will never happen because very few thought that Russia would invade Ukraine until they did.
@@brainderp808 Considering the people claiming that Russia was going to invade are the same people who claimed Trump was a Putin Puppet, you can easily forgive me for making that assumption. America's "intelligence agencies" have no intelligence. For 4 years Putin left Ukraine alone under Trump. Hell, he didn't invade in the months after Joe Bite-Me took office. It was not until AFTER the fall of Kabul and the Taliban taking control of Afghanistan that Putin acted. So, again, you are falling for the 2020 hindsight fallacy.
We're in the 20s and it's already going to the great depression of the 30s and I've also been seeing people dressing in a manner similar and reminiscent of the 70s including wide bottom hems
From what I could see about the Towering Inferno... just because its the best new shiny thing, made by the smartest people and the most cutting edge tech means jack in the real world were a simple thing can send it all toppling over. At the end of the day, we need to look at the simple solutions instead of the complicated ones.
The Chinese have a word that translates as "gold and lacquer on the outside, rot and corruption on the inside". Often used to describe the decadence and corruption of Song Dynasty. I think it also applies to the tower in that movie as well as the US today.
Small pop trivia: The guy who created the first mobile phone was watching the original Star Trek and thought "This isn't sci-fi, we could totally do this today!". After he made a pair of mobile phones, he sent one to the office of his top competitor & called him from outside the entrance of his competitor's company to brag.
Yeah, Original series Star Trek came out in the 1970s. Which is ironic because that bright spot of hope for a better future has been smothered under Alex Kurtzman. The best analogy to classic Trek's idealism today would be Japanese anime and Korean Dramas. Ironic as anime studios like Tohe cut their teeth in animation during the 1970s and 80s by being the subcontractors for American productions like Dungeons and Dragons the cartoon series.
Knowing that the first Star Wars film was released during the 70s. I can see why It was special. George Lucas really went against the grain and made a Optimistic Movie in a Galaxy Far Far away about a Rebellion actually dealing a successful blow to a totalitarian Empire. A hopeful Optimistic movie in a time where everything was depressing. No wonder people cheered when Han Solo came in the last minute to save the day.
Also in Alien, the robot lets the infected people in. He breaks Ripley’s quarantine protocols, which she gets upset about. So, rigid rules with stiff penalties for the crew, but the the ones that make the rules flout the ones they want without having to pay the price themselves.
In Alien, you have it completely backwards. The rules required Kane to be quarantined for 24 hours. Ash broke those rules letting Lambert, Dallas, Kane and Kanes chestburster into the ship. It was NOT following protocol that let the alien into the ship.
I rewatched the movie because of this video and came back to see if anyone commented this :) Edit: though perhaps he was referring to the science division's protocols (retrieve the alien specimen; crew is expendable) - the crew didn't know about that though; and the last few weren't pleased to discover it from the company-robot-scientist-dude, Ash.
You WISH it was the '70s. Better Music, Better job opportunities for College grads, and a Much higher rate of younger people owning their own homes. The 70s look Great by comparison.
@@Darth_Bateman yes. And it is Completely ignorant of How bad things are Right now. The Feelings of despair may be similar, but the Actual situation is MUCH worse. Saying "Things are Bad now, but we Turned it around!" when what "turned it around" led Exactly to the terrible situation we're in today. There is no way currently available to do so.
@@Rensune Got news for you : That's fucking life. We hit a turning point into bad times, now we have to find another turning point into good times. There are plenty of available ways, not ways that will solve the problems over night, but there are ways. . .
@@Darth_Bateman Yes, there are turning points into good times. But they will not come with the current people in power, both in the political arena and the "entertainment "and media "industry". It will come not from the people holding the power but from us, the grass roots. We need more Gene Rodenberrys/George Lucas/JRR Tolkiens and fewer Alex Kurtzmans/Kathleen Kennedys/Chris Chibnalls.
“It’s like in the great stories Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end. It’s all a passing thing: the shadow. Even darkness must pass, and the day will come, and when the sun shines through it’ll shine out the clearer.”
The 70s is not back. In the 70s the debt to GDP was around 40~60%, now it is 130%. But don't be sad... the 30s and 40s are back complete with possible world wars AND depression.
I would argue that this is why Star Wars was such a smash hit. A combination of nostalgia and hope (a new hope) was really what people were looking for as a relief from all those pessimistic takes that people were tired of being over inflated in all that other stuff.
It took a lot of sacrifice and grit to pull out of that era. It took multiple Serpico's all over the place in all sorts of fields. Also they had the advantages of different places being different and not connected. Imagine fleeing your country to avoid reprisals of corrupt officials except the county you fell to either does the exact same thing to you or sends you back, puts you on the no fly list etc. The world is become a place in which escape isn't an option, ie flight or fight and they are taking away the ability to flee.
Don't forget that you have idealists like Gene Rodenberry and Carl Sagan to light the way. Sadly, the people holding the keys to those great works they put out are not interested in the dream nor the legacy but to pervert them for the own nihilistic self-aggrandizement. The best modern-day analogy I can think of to classic Star Trek is Japanese Anime and Korean Dramas. Ironic that the East Asians who have historically be considered dour and apathetic with regards to their stories are the ones who have figured out how to appeal to the yearning American audiences who want to return to the dreams of idealists like Rodenberry and Sagan.
"Well, who'd have seen this coming" -some character of movie I've seen before (don't know which, and can't remember sorry) I'm not totally surprised at all by this comparison. I've since viewed Biden and his administration similar akin to the Carter administration and honestly, I view the 70s as a low point for the United States and possibly elsewhere in the west as well. Many more adamant folks of my generation would view this as additional ammunition against the boomers for plethora of reasons one of them being their actions in both the 60s and 70s are the reason why are politics are back to where they are again as you put it though under different circumstances that makes Mark Twain's comment on history not necessarily repeating itself but often rhyming time to time a common occurrence. I was initially going to end this comment here until I finished watching the whole video and for what it's worth, while the 70s is my opinion the lowest point for our country and elsewhere (especially what happened after Vietnam, Cambodia, and USSR), there were many good things about the 70s that I did like, the release of Pong by ATARI kick started the video game industry and the result of these policies would led to the election of Ronald Reagan who's series of tax and budget cuts end up leading to a very prosperous time in the 80s. So, despite it all I still have hope and optimism with the future as hope is scientifically proven to be very powerful in our drowning times. Thanks Shuan!
Dude, Reagan raised taxes. Look it up, he did it later in his presidency, but he did. He also decided to close mental hospitals instead of overhauling the system, increasing the homeless population and denying those who needed it, the help they deserved. It's also been said he might already started suffering from dementia then too.
@@theimmortal4718 I mean that wouldn't surprise but I sadly do not know all of the policies that were legislated and passed under the Obama administration other than Obama Care.
@@theimmortal4718 Agreed. And Joe Bite-Me is Obama's third term taken to its logical conclusion. Seriously, almost all of the white house staff are almost exactly the same people.
There were many, but the wokescolds in Hollyweird don't want to acknowledge them because it would mean they are talentless two-bit hacks who can't hold a candle to real female talent.
A video on the nostalgia for the 50s in the 70s, then of the 70s in the 90s and now a generalized nostalgia for the past and it’s implications would make a good follow up to this
Original Star Trek also came out in the 1970s. One of the few bright spots in the cynicism of the period. Sadly, the franchise has been infected with jaded nihilism and glorification of suffering under Alex Krutzman.
The Foundation For Economic Education has come out with a brilliant, simple, incisive explanation for something that I think a lot of people are feeling and experiencing, but which many people don't see as being the product of large societal situations. It's also found a very innovative way to pronounce "Yom Kippur".
The 70s are back?! Yay! This means Boe Jiden is gonna put EVEN MORE Black Americans in jail than he did back then, and he ALREADY has the highest score among all politicians! I looove Boo Jidone!!
I'd rather live in the 70s anyday, hands down. If I could go back, I'd choose to be born in 1958. To be in my prime youth during the 70s then ride the prosperous wave of the 80s. Even though I'd be in my 60s now, it would've been worth it. The late 60s, 70s and early 80s are my favorite music decades and there were no smartphones. My parents and many boomers tell me they totally agree life was better then. My grandma was born in 1929 and she loved the 40s.
Funny story. My GF at the time hated horror movies. I didn't know it at the time but she was terrified of them. Clowns too, but that's another story. Anyway, I took her to see Alien and she buried herself into me and clung on for dear life crying when the Alien showed up killing everyone. It was a good time for everyone. I explained to her afterward the poster literally advertised "In Space Nobody Can Hear You Scream"...How did you not think it was going to be scary? To this day I look at her and giggle when we watch it. She still tucks into me but she watches it. She's seen all of them with me.
What's your thoughts on the movie Network? I recently watched that for the first time and all of the rants Peter Finch gives are still applicable today
I lost my mother this year, but even before then the 2010s and 2020s havent been that hot. Im depressed, been struggling with my weight, my career, my love life, my life. Things never just feel into place the way I thought they would. There probably were some good times here and there but the failures and the regrets eat at me the most.
Ya, the 70's were a lot of things, my first job in '73, that created a career until 2003 - 30 years - then into service. & I still serve, today with FedEx Ground. I keep going because I make people happy, Be Happy with service, let people be happy with what you do, Sounds like there are a lot of ungrateful people in The States, but, really, are there? Ask... do you have a home to sleep in & you feel safe there? In Ukraine, you don't. When you wake up, are you sake & have a meal ready for you? Maybe, in Ukraine, you don't. In The U.S. of A. ALL Americans should be grateful for what you do have, not angry for what you don't have. Thank God for what we do have.
The series Black Mirror is an example of a piece of media that looks at the dangers of technology today and it’s possible effect on our future. I think every decade has this attitude of self critique.
Movie recognized "Network" Drama/Satire. Veteran news anchorman Howard Beale went on a television rant. Quote "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore 1976
To add to the point about Alien. At one point Ripley finds out the ship's crew is judged expendable by their company super computer. It's not just inflexible rules, but about a company that cares about its interests over your value as a human being.
If I recall correctly that was in relation to bringing back the xeno "specimen" and they were deemed an acceptable price to be paid.
A computer is just an enforcer of rules which were written by humans. The algorithm which demotes content on youtube is just a systematization of choices made by humans. A company is just an institutionalization of decisions made by humans. The point made by FEE is that the harm comes most often from distant top-down rules/decisions which are disconnected from your local reality. In these cases, the business, the computer, the algorithm, are all just enforcement mechanisms.
Well gee, doesn't that sound familiar.
Fun fact: the miniature tower used in "The Towering Inferno" was 80' tall.
Eighty feet tall? Sounds reasonable.
Nuh uh
That's 24 Meters for all of us in the rest of the world.
Eighty feet, or eighty inches? If there is one thing the documentary "This is Spinal Tap" taught me, it's that the difference is important.
@@kirk2767 70'; I looked it up. The tower had to be that big to make the fire look right. Even then, it took special care to keep the flames in scale.
Thanks for this. I've been trying to maintain as much of a sense of normalcy as I can for the sake of my kids and that'd helped keep me positive. They're on the sofa watching Tom and Jerry and drinking smoothies. Yesterday they rode bikes with the neighbor kids. Monday we go strawberry picking.
If ever I'm feeling overwhelmed by all the negativity, I disconnect from the web and go spend time with them. Life is so much simpler and joyful when viewed through the eyes of children.
I have a feeling in a few years we will all commit atrocities to feed our hungry children
@@zoanth4 I've been pretty proactive about that and we have a decent storage. Hopefully we'll hold out long enough for things to turn for the better.
stock up on can goods.
@@JackFalltrades yes. AND 2001 and 2020-2021 but there has been several food processing plants that have accidentally been burnt down and there is also baby formula shortage.
@@JackFalltrades "prepping" doesn't hurt. anything..
This channel is vastly underrated. I love your content.
I've been saying that this is the 1970's for a year now and it's great to hear others say it
So have I
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Well I’m not sure it’s great… I would’ve preferred you be wrong lol. But here we are. 🙄
Yeah it's not great. I get what you mean, you don't feel alone any more...but it's awful that we live in a serpico and chinatown-esque world. Corruption and greed and evil win and we the people lose. I mean...look at the president and his son....awfully strange that not so long ago hinter was making millions off a Ukrainian oil company and no one questioned anything. Everything is so obviously blackened with corruption and nothing is done. A show trial about a woman celeb slandering a male celeb gets constant coverage and fools wait outside just to yell...meanwhile a trial that couldve implicated the people around and or INVOLVED in said show trial is silenced and memory holed.
Only worse, in this version of the 70s, Star Wars sucks and the music is mostly trash.
I was born in 72, and being a teen in the 80s and young adult in the 90s was probably the best time to have been alive at those ages.
Lol I listen to boomers tell me how the best to time to be alive was in 1972. Can't wait to tell future generations that the best time to live was 2022.
@@evanc6110 they were born in 72, so the best time for them would've been the late 70s and 80s.
@@krunkle5136 gen x is 72
@@evanc6110 Evan, please get off the internet. You missed every single point and it's just cringe. Go.
I was too young to deal with the '70's then, and I'm too old for a rerun...
FEE: "The 70s are back!"
Me: "At least there's no Disco."
Music Industry: *laughing in modern crap music*
I'd MUCH rather get disco back over the shit hip hop I hear everywhere I go.
@@bizariet True. But, “Better Dead Than Disco” sounds better than “Better R…. Than Rap”.
Dude Disco easily beats modern rap wich is terrible!
Don't forget... rap existed back then as well.
Perhaps part of the trouble is that time has a way of rotting away the trash to let the gold shine through. I'm certain there was garbage music back then also, but since it was garbage, it was tossed aside for the good things. These days, there's such a glut of content that it's hard to find the nuggets of gold in the sea of mediocre trash that hasn't rotted away yet.
@@latemanparodius5133 You are correct. Movies like Forrest Gump only used the hits of the era, not the average songs that nobody remembers.
Personally, I think pop culture will get better when the writers, producers, and directors stopped pushing agendas to focus on entertainment for entertainment's sake.
Or rather, remove the activists and put real writers, producers, and directors back in charge.
@Jun3 Shiroyuki when they get short in money, that's exactly what they'll do
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Kinda like what happened to Netflix recently
Nope, things get worse.
Ma boy, they always did. The problem is that wheb you don't agree with them
Okay, but let's not forget that the 70's also gave us the original Star Wars, Up In Smoke, Smokey and the Bandit, Animal House, The Villain, Blazing Saddles, Every Which Way But Loose, and the Life of Brian among many more. It wasn't all doom and gloom.
Also, Alien is totally worth an episode just for itself. Still relevant to this day on many levels.
Jaws and Rocky too.
As Empire of Dreams pointed out, Star Wars broke the mold of so many 70s movies which helped make it successful.
Or is that part of the problem? The best things you can name from the 70s are fucking movies. What a god awful decade.
@@xenn4985 - Kawasaki Jet Ski 1972, Makita cordless drill 1978, Sony Walkman 1979, were all good things from the ‘70s
@@xenn4985 also, the Apple II and Radio Shack TRS-80 computers were introduced in 1977
Do you guys want to know what’s freaky? The gas ⛽️ prices that we have now are higher than the gas prices in the film “I Am Legend”. I’m not kidding. I know that’s not a 70-80s film but still it’s really freaking me out that our prices are higher than the apocalypse prices lol 😆
@valcaron its more eyecatching tbh
@@Steel-101 it's cringe
@@thelordz33 Nope. still fun 😁⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️
@@thelordz33 🧢
Thank Biden. Make American poor again
Really great video. I've found that a lot of things that upsets me or fills me with dread for the future can be alleviated by simply avoiding social media and television news opinion shows. If I dont consume those the list of things to worry about gets drastically smaller.
I've trained my algorithm to be biased towards wholesome. Doesn't completely fix the problem, but it takes off so much edge and anger away
The best part of being back in the '70s is getting to live the '80s. Let's make sure to get Synthwave right this time.
That means we're going to get Videogames 2 electric boogaloo out of it too
@@MrNoot39449 a new videogame revolution? Almost worth it
One very good thing about the 70's was that it really took the wind out of the Keynesian economic theory. High unemployment happening at a time of high inflation was something that the followers of Keynes assured everyone could not possibly happen.
Yet they never gave up on their claims. Indeed, Barak Obama was the Keynesian President doing exactly what Maynard wanted the Federal government to do. And Biden is just Obama's third term, with the harm having metalized behind the bright period of Trump's 4 years (think walking ghost period of radiation poisoning).
@@davidford3115 The Economists went out and created variants like "Neo-keynesianism." Very few, outside of Paul Krugman, still consider themselves a "classical Keynesian," and they acknowledge the problems in The General Theory, and have pretty much abandoned it in favor of new "sects". You are making the case that the politicians did not change, and are still Keynesians. Of course they didn't, because John Maynard Keynes told the politicians and bureaucrats that it was easy and necessary for political intervention in the economy to ensure maximum efficiency. Of course the politicians won't abandon him. Keynes himself summed up the problem quite pithily:
“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.”
-- John Maynard Keynes
Indeed, the Keynesian Plantation is full of eager politician slaves because the slaves find the defunct "Massa Keynes" so empowering and validating of his chattel, and indulgently endorsing of the activities they are already predisposed to do.
They're still claiming it can't happen. It seems that economic lessons must be retaught through object lesson once a generation.
@@garyblack8717 Sadly true, yet those of us who learned the lessons from example have to pay the price for the fools who need to learn by personal experience.
Yes, then came neoliberalism and Regeanomics.
Between pestilence, war, and promises of famine and death I'm just hoping we have time left for things to get better.
But chaosgyro, you know what they say?
Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse
When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best
And
Always look on the bright side of life
Always look on the light side of life
If life seems jolly rotten (hoo-hoo)
There's something you've forgotten (hoo-hoo)
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing (hoo-hoo-hoo)
When you're feeling in the dumps (hoo-hoo)
Don't be silly, chumps (hoo-hoo)
Just purse your lips and whistle, that's the thing (hoo-hoo)
And
Always look on the bright side of life
(Come on)
Always look on the right side of life
For life is quite absurd (hoo-hoo)
And death's the final word (hoo-hoo)
You must always face the curtain with a bow (hoo-hoo-hoo)
Forget about your sin (hoo-hoo)
Give the audience a grin (hoo-hoo)
Enjoy it, it's your last chance anyhow
So always look on the bright side of death
A-just before you draw your terminal breath
Life's a piece of shit (hoo-hoo)
When you look at it (hoo-hoo)
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true (hoo-hoo-hoo)
You'll see it's all a show (hoo-hoo)
Keep 'em laughin' as you go (hoo-hoo)
Just remember that the last laugh is on you (hoo-hoo-hoo)
And
Always look on the bright side of life
Always look on the right side of life
(C'mon chaosgyro, cheer up)
Always look on the bright side of life
Always look on the bright side of life
(Worse things happen at sea, you know?)
Always look on the bright side of life (what have you got to lose?)
(You know, you come from nothing, you're going back to nothing)
(What have you lost? Nothing) always look on the bright side of life
(Nothing will come from nothing you know what they say?)
Always look on the bright side of life (cheer up, ya old bugger, c'mon, give us a grin)
(There y'are, see? It's the end of the film)
(Incidentally, this record is available in the foyer)
Always look on the bright side of life (some of us got to live as well, you know?)
(All right, that's the lot, let's get this place knocked down)
Always look on the bright side of life (the whole show's dismantled in three weeks)
Who do you think pays for all this rubbish?)
Always look on the bright side of life (they'll never make their money back, you know)
(I told him, I said to him, "Bernie" I said, "they'll never make their money back")
Always look on the bright side of life
"Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events."
-Robert A. Heinlein
Heinlein, Asimov, Arhtur C. Clarke, and Carl Sagan were all an inspiration for "classic Star Trek". And during the 1970s and 1980s, embraced their mantra. Sadly, Alex Kurtzman understands nothing from those great futurists in his nihilistic version of Trek.
How isn't being a pessimistic smart ass not fun also?
Love him or hate him, Trump was in charge during the best financial time in my life. A pandemic was needed to take him out and all it did is help prove just how well he did. Biden could not have messed up any worse than he and his handlers have.
The answer was that Trump is a business man and Biden is a crook of a Politician you'll guess which one I voted for?
(Hint:Its the Business man)
You're giving the president way too much credit for the economy.
@@FTChomp9980 Trump was a legendary president and yet people STILL are talking shit about him lmao. They still call anyone they disagree with trumpers and call anyone who isnt a dumbass communist a "bible clutching conservative" and they also call ya racist too lmfao
Why don't you ask your tax cut companies why despite the tax cut you get all this inflation. Perhaps the difference between Obama and Biden is that there was. Trump between, it makes no sense to blame Biden when with Obama there was no such kind of a problem, and you got two terms of it, wanna blame a president perhaps blame Trump since he could handle the pandemic, for him it will all would disappear like for magic, like many of his supporters believe, things happens for magic
@@FTChomp9980 who has tons of bankruptcy on his hands, and scams... You really should look for whom your idols are
As the saying goes
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
And just like that here we go again
And alot of the same people in office then are still there now.
@@grinningtiki220 So true. They are proof positive why high turnover in positions of power is a good thing.
"Politicians and diapers need to be changed often, and for the same reasons," -Mark Twain, aka Samuel Clemens.
No wonder we have an obsession with the 80s. To fantasize about being past the problems of the 70s without looking at what causes those issues..
Well, and the 80s were a period of hope and optimism in the wake of the 1970s. Keep in mind that part of that was due to the few positive media productions like TOS and TNG Star Trek.
Sadly we'll have to live through it too now, without any indication that we'll be getting any 80's era at all
@@MrNoot39449 Whoa, that sounds scary.
@@davidford3115 haha I love that star trek is getting cred for giving us hope in the 80s
@@davidford3115 it's cause Reagan brought back our optimism
Shit, man. I just had a depressive episode this week that I got rid of. I don't need another one! :D
Really though, thanks for making these videos. I may not watch them in their intirety today or tomorrow, but soon I'll revisit them and soak in all that philosophical goodness.
I just love how this channel ends with a message of hope!
Thanks for the friendly optimism of the idea things will be better again. Great video.
Some of us were alive in the 70s, too so we get to watch the rerun.
I'm surprised you didn't mention Soylent Green, a movie that predicted we'd all be making people into food in 2022.
I propose a sub-series where Shawn goes through decades detailing historical events and political/ social issues
Thanks for making this video, and reminding us theres an end to this nightmare of a decade.
What a great video, love your optimism and showing that dark and gritty is still only a perspective.
I'm blessed to have grown up in the 90's. Its a time I can remember very vividly so to have the video end on such a note of optimism is the dash of encouragement I needed. So thanks!
Grunge was pretty moody but whatever
I was born too late to live through and experience the good times, but born just in time to see the bad times.
God give me the strength.
Not gonna lie, when you said "1970s", I was pretty sure you were talking about "30 years ago" for a bit longer than I should have.
Same here. I still feel like it is 1998 at times. Things were so much simpler then.
Amazing video! Very thought provoking parallels. Lets fight for a better future instead of just fighting.
The 70s also had a bloody and unpopular war in Vietnam which ended just like in Afghanistan.
>The 70s also had a bloody and unpopular war in Vietnam which ended just like in Afghanistan.
For contrast, the world saw the a unpopular "war" in Ukraine, whose soldiers were just dipstick Redditors flying there for klout.
The sad part is, it was popular in the beginning.
Cue China invading Vietnam in 2029.
I would say worse that Afghanistan. At least Vietnam had evacuations like Operation Babylift. Contrast that to General Donahu leaving behind civilians so he could have room for this captured war trophy. I distinctly remember seeing videos of helicopters being pushed off carrier decks to make room for Saigon evacuees.
One majot difference. US debt in the 1980 was 34%.... today 128% of GDP
Don't ask questions. Just take blind optimism
Animators, Musicians, Film Makers, Creatives, this is the decade to make something incredible! No Political Agendas just straight up great stories!
Some other good 70's films that mirrored sentiments at the time:
The Parallax View
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Capricorn One
The China Syndrome
Most thrillers made in that decade had the "just another victim"-type ending.
Oh, don't forget 'Soylent Green'. Relevance: the food prices 😂
@@ramoth777 hopefully the notorious aspect of the titular food never applies😐
Oh god, I'm living in a time loop. . . .We're all in a time loop.
If you don't know history, you're doomed to repeat it. However, if you understand history, you're damned to witness it's repetition.
@@Code7Unltd that’s it, I’m starting the rumbling.
It's like the 70s minus the good music, awesome movies, and cool muscle cars. Another thing this decade lacks is the optimism for a better future; because despite how crummy things got in the 70s there was still hope that things would improve. This was reflected in the following decade, the 1980s. Unfortunately for today's youth (Millennials, Gen Z, & Gen Alpha) all metrics indicate that they will be comparatively worse off than their parents & grandparents (Boomers & Gen X).
Another point of hope is that, in 1976, in the midst of all that, a young filmmaker named George Lucas told a producer friend, “I’m tired of all this doom and gloom and serious stuff. I want to make something that gives people hope.” I honestly think we’re on the verge of the next Star Wars.
Very nice note to end it on. Thanks.
Fascinating! Excellent over-view, beginning, middle, _and_ end!
Thank you once again. Great episode if you watch to the end! A very important message.
5:40, I’m glad you made that distinction
Your videos are always so great. Thank you for your work.
You failed to mention a small movie made in 77 that changed the way people were viewing the world....you might have heard of it, it was called Star Wars. One optimistic film changed the way we saw ourselves in an instant.
Don't forget Star Trek which was in production during the early 1970s and in syndication during the late 70s. And the popularity of Trek made it possible for Star Wars to be so successful. And today it seems that the two franchises are still in symbiosis as both fandoms are livid over the vandalization by Alex Kurtzman and Kathleen Kennedy.
It was "A New Hope" amidst the depressing societal attitude of the time, wouldn't you say?
The greatest errors of humanity is to believe that the past was idyllic or that the future will see us freed from strife
The future always will, but only if we make it so.
This is the truth realize you live in an endless cycle. Generations have said the same thing ever since writing.
Add the apparent restart of the Cold War.
Not the kind of nostalgia we want.
Nah.
It's about to get Hot
@@brainderp808 He means civil war in the US.
@@brainderp808 I didn't say it would, I was clearing up what he was talking about
@@brainderp808 Nobody thought the US would have a Civil War in 1860 until PTG Beauregard fired on Fort Sumpter. Don't succumb to positivity bias. Don't think that it will never happen because very few thought that Russia would invade Ukraine until they did.
@@brainderp808 Considering the people claiming that Russia was going to invade are the same people who claimed Trump was a Putin Puppet, you can easily forgive me for making that assumption. America's "intelligence agencies" have no intelligence.
For 4 years Putin left Ukraine alone under Trump. Hell, he didn't invade in the months after Joe Bite-Me took office. It was not until AFTER the fall of Kabul and the Taliban taking control of Afghanistan that Putin acted. So, again, you are falling for the 2020 hindsight fallacy.
Thank You.
We're in the 20s and it's already going to the great depression of the 30s and I've also been seeing people dressing in a manner similar and reminiscent of the 70s including wide bottom hems
This video also made me realize that Dazed and Confused is what set our modern interpretation of what the 70s were like.
It’s funny because you talked about Saturday Night Fever as if it was a shiny happy film but it’s actually really dark and quite disturbing.
_Joe_ is a movie from 1970 that really encapsulates the 70s for me (at least how I can see it), as does _Midnight Cowboy_ (though that's a 1969 film)
History Does Not Repeat Itself, But It often rhymes. - Mark Twain.
From what I could see about the Towering Inferno... just because its the best new shiny thing, made by the smartest people and the most cutting edge tech means jack in the real world were a simple thing can send it all toppling over. At the end of the day, we need to look at the simple solutions instead of the complicated ones.
The Chinese have a word that translates as "gold and lacquer on the outside, rot and corruption on the inside". Often used to describe the decadence and corruption of Song Dynasty. I think it also applies to the tower in that movie as well as the US today.
Small pop trivia: The guy who created the first mobile phone was watching the original Star Trek and thought "This isn't sci-fi, we could totally do this today!". After he made a pair of mobile phones, he sent one to the office of his top competitor & called him from outside the entrance of his competitor's company to brag.
Talk about BDE.
Yeah, Original series Star Trek came out in the 1970s. Which is ironic because that bright spot of hope for a better future has been smothered under Alex Kurtzman. The best analogy to classic Trek's idealism today would be Japanese anime and Korean Dramas. Ironic as anime studios like Tohe cut their teeth in animation during the 1970s and 80s by being the subcontractors for American productions like Dungeons and Dragons the cartoon series.
Mindblown
It’s unbelievable. This is as good as it gets.
It’s unbelievable, dunno what’s gonna happen next.
Nice Owl City quote.
Thanks dude this vid really helped me
The day did come eventually, but it's always darker before dawn. Stay safe, everyone.
Knowing that the first Star Wars film was released during the 70s. I can see why It was special. George Lucas really went against the grain and made a Optimistic Movie in a Galaxy Far Far away about a Rebellion actually dealing a successful blow to a totalitarian Empire.
A hopeful Optimistic movie in a time where everything was depressing. No wonder people cheered when Han Solo came in the last minute to save the day.
It's interesting that the good things that came after the hard times of the 70s are the same things that people are currently nostalgic about today.
Boom and bust cycles.
I'm in love with your voice.
Also in Alien, the robot lets the infected people in. He breaks Ripley’s quarantine protocols, which she gets upset about. So, rigid rules with stiff penalties for the crew, but the the ones that make the rules flout the ones they want without having to pay the price themselves.
I LOVE the way you say "smartest experts" right at the moment you show OJ Simpson!! LMAO!!
In Alien, you have it completely backwards. The rules required Kane to be quarantined for 24 hours. Ash broke those rules letting Lambert, Dallas, Kane and Kanes chestburster into the ship. It was NOT following protocol that let the alien into the ship.
I rewatched the movie because of this video and came back to see if anyone commented this :)
Edit: though perhaps he was referring to the science division's protocols (retrieve the alien specimen; crew is expendable) - the crew didn't know about that though; and the last few weren't pleased to discover it from the company-robot-scientist-dude, Ash.
You WISH it was the '70s.
Better Music, Better job opportunities for College grads, and a Much higher rate of younger people owning their own homes.
The 70s look Great by comparison.
Did you not watch the video at ALL? NO YOU DUCKING DON'T! LMFAO.
@@Darth_Bateman yes.
And it is Completely ignorant of How bad things are Right now.
The Feelings of despair may be similar, but the Actual situation is MUCH worse.
Saying "Things are Bad now, but we Turned it around!" when what "turned it around" led Exactly to the terrible situation we're in today.
There is no way currently available to do so.
@@Rensune Got news for you : That's fucking life.
We hit a turning point into bad times, now we have to find another turning point into good times.
There are plenty of available ways, not ways that will solve the problems over night, but there are ways. . .
If I could step in a time capsule I'd choose to be born in 1958 and ride the wave of the 70s into the prosperous 80s, no questions asked
@@Darth_Bateman Yes, there are turning points into good times. But they will not come with the current people in power, both in the political arena and the "entertainment "and media "industry". It will come not from the people holding the power but from us, the grass roots. We need more Gene Rodenberrys/George Lucas/JRR Tolkiens and fewer Alex Kurtzmans/Kathleen Kennedys/Chris Chibnalls.
“It’s like in the great stories Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end. It’s all a passing thing: the shadow. Even darkness must pass, and the day will come, and when the sun shines through it’ll shine out the clearer.”
The 70s is not back. In the 70s the debt to GDP was around 40~60%, now it is 130%. But don't be sad... the 30s and 40s are back complete with possible world wars AND depression.
growing up in the 80's all five of those films I loved. I still watch Chinatown / Alien/ Serpico from time to time.. mostly Chinatown.
I would argue that this is why Star Wars was such a smash hit. A combination of nostalgia and hope (a new hope) was really what people were looking for as a relief from all those pessimistic takes that people were tired of being over inflated in all that other stuff.
16:46, good point.
Tough times never last, only tough people last.
It took a lot of sacrifice and grit to pull out of that era. It took multiple Serpico's all over the place in all sorts of fields. Also they had the advantages of different places being different and not connected. Imagine fleeing your country to avoid reprisals of corrupt officials except the county you fell to either does the exact same thing to you or sends you back, puts you on the no fly list etc. The world is become a place in which escape isn't an option, ie flight or fight and they are taking away the ability to flee.
Don't forget that you have idealists like Gene Rodenberry and Carl Sagan to light the way. Sadly, the people holding the keys to those great works they put out are not interested in the dream nor the legacy but to pervert them for the own nihilistic self-aggrandizement.
The best modern-day analogy I can think of to classic Star Trek is Japanese Anime and Korean Dramas. Ironic that the East Asians who have historically be considered dour and apathetic with regards to their stories are the ones who have figured out how to appeal to the yearning American audiences who want to return to the dreams of idealists like Rodenberry and Sagan.
"Well, who'd have seen this coming" -some character of movie I've seen before (don't know which, and can't remember sorry)
I'm not totally surprised at all by this comparison. I've since viewed Biden and his administration similar akin to the Carter administration and honestly, I view the 70s as a low point for the United States and possibly elsewhere in the west as well.
Many more adamant folks of my generation would view this as additional ammunition against the boomers for plethora of reasons one of them being their actions in both the 60s and 70s are the reason why are politics are back to where they are again as you put it though under different circumstances that makes Mark Twain's comment on history not necessarily repeating itself but often rhyming time to time a common occurrence.
I was initially going to end this comment here until I finished watching the whole video and for what it's worth, while the 70s is my opinion the lowest point for our country and elsewhere (especially what happened after Vietnam, Cambodia, and USSR), there were many good things about the 70s that I did like, the release of Pong by ATARI kick started the video game industry and the result of these policies would led to the election of Ronald Reagan who's series of tax and budget cuts end up leading to a very prosperous time in the 80s. So, despite it all I still have hope and optimism with the future as hope is scientifically proven to be very powerful in our drowning times. Thanks Shuan!
Dude, Reagan raised taxes. Look it up, he did it later in his presidency, but he did. He also decided to close mental hospitals instead of overhauling the system, increasing the homeless population and denying those who needed it, the help they deserved. It's also been said he might already started suffering from dementia then too.
Obama was closer to Carter
@@theimmortal4718 I mean that wouldn't surprise but I sadly do not know all of the policies that were legislated and passed under the Obama administration other than Obama Care.
@@theimmortal4718 Agreed. And Joe Bite-Me is Obama's third term taken to its logical conclusion. Seriously, almost all of the white house staff are almost exactly the same people.
@@davidford3115
He's the stand in. His cabinet is all Clinton and Obama recycles. Psaki was HRCs press secretary at state.
Woah woah woah. You mean to tell me, there were strong female protagonists, in movies, in the 70’s?!?!
....🤯
There were many, but the wokescolds in Hollyweird don't want to acknowledge them because it would mean they are talentless two-bit hacks who can't hold a candle to real female talent.
A video on the nostalgia for the 50s in the 70s, then of the 70s in the 90s and now a generalized nostalgia for the past and it’s implications would make a good follow up to this
In the story of life, the nouns are ever-changing, but the verbs stay the same.
Thanks for shedding light on the positive aspects of the 1970s. Learned more about the films and TV shows of that decade.
Original Star Trek also came out in the 1970s. One of the few bright spots in the cynicism of the period. Sadly, the franchise has been infected with jaded nihilism and glorification of suffering under Alex Krutzman.
The Foundation For Economic Education has come out with a brilliant, simple, incisive explanation for something that I think a lot of people are feeling and experiencing, but which many people don't see as being the product of large societal situations.
It's also found a very innovative way to pronounce "Yom Kippur".
The 70s are back?! Yay! This means Boe Jiden is gonna put EVEN MORE Black Americans in jail than he did back then, and he ALREADY has the highest score among all politicians! I looove Boo Jidone!!
You can't bypass thought with procedure or competence with enthusiasm. Forget who said that, but these movies always remind me of it.
I'd rather live in the 70s anyday, hands down. If I could go back, I'd choose to be born in 1958. To be in my prime youth during the 70s then ride the prosperous wave of the 80s. Even though I'd be in my 60s now, it would've been worth it. The late 60s, 70s and early 80s are my favorite music decades and there were no smartphones. My parents and many boomers tell me they totally agree life was better then. My grandma was born in 1929 and she loved the 40s.
Oh God, he's optimistic!
Funny story. My GF at the time hated horror movies. I didn't know it at the time but she was terrified of them. Clowns too, but that's another story. Anyway, I took her to see Alien and she buried herself into me and clung on for dear life crying when the Alien showed up killing everyone. It was a good time for everyone. I explained to her afterward the poster literally advertised "In Space Nobody Can Hear You Scream"...How did you not think it was going to be scary? To this day I look at her and giggle when we watch it. She still tucks into me but she watches it. She's seen all of them with me.
What's your thoughts on the movie Network? I recently watched that for the first time and all of the rants Peter Finch gives are still applicable today
I hope you're right man. I truly do.
But I don't think you are.
Excellent vid
Please, take me back to the 80s and early 90s.
I don’t think Cobain was very pleased with the state of the world at that time
@@callmeej8399 He never liked anything.
Hopefully someone can answer this. At 0:53 you see a man sitting in a glass container at night surrounded by protestors. Where is that from?
History doesn’t repeat but it sure does rhyme a lot
I lost my mother this year, but even before then the 2010s and 2020s havent been that hot. Im depressed, been struggling with my weight, my career, my love life, my life. Things never just feel into place the way I thought they would. There probably were some good times here and there but the failures and the regrets eat at me the most.
after the 70s came the 80s.
prepare for synthwave
What is the background music in your videos called?
things are progressing but not as first as wish they should be ... maybe that's for the better
Dude! 77 was the year of Star Wars, too!
We need to acknowledge a very important movie that came out in 1977, the aptly named: A New Hope. I hear it was very popular
Well, the sequels fuck that up, too.
do we get disco back too?
Ya, the 70's were a lot of things, my first job in '73, that created a career until 2003 - 30 years - then into service. & I still serve, today with FedEx Ground. I keep going because I make people happy, Be Happy with service, let people be happy with what you do, Sounds like there are a lot of ungrateful people in The States, but, really, are there? Ask... do you have a home to sleep in & you feel safe there? In Ukraine, you don't. When you wake up, are you sake & have a meal ready for you? Maybe, in Ukraine, you don't. In The U.S. of A. ALL Americans should be grateful for what you do have, not angry for what you don't have. Thank God for what we do have.
The series Black Mirror is an example of a piece of media that looks at the dangers of technology today and it’s possible effect on our future. I think every decade has this attitude of self critique.
I’m surprised Network didn’t make it onto this list. It definitely has a lot of echos that reverberate today
Movie recognized "Network" Drama/Satire. Veteran news anchorman Howard Beale went on a television rant. Quote "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore 1976
“It’s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder how I keep from going under”
Cant even compare. The wef, eu council at brussels werent implementing a great reset then.