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Personally I would like to have been rich in the 1920's but enjoy the benefits of today's medical technology.
were the 70´s the peak of mankind?
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chrischris
G.O.A.T.
Could be so.. Got any stats prove it?
kiki
Banned
WHAT!!!!!!!!!!
Little things like VIETNAM, Jimmy Carter, Energy Crisis, Terrorism, Highjacking airplanes, murder of athletes at the freaking Olympics, boycotts, oil embargoes, INFLATION globally! at least 3 Middle East wars...............DISCO
I grew up in the 70s (born in 1961) and IT SUCKED!!!!!!!! Oh my god and the clothes:shock:
Just a horrible terrible decade........I guess NONE of you remember gasoline rationing in the early 70s or lines going on and on for blocks because no one had gas in the pumps.
How about the Black September, Red Army Faction, SLA.........airplanes getting high jacked on a regular basis........old pictures from LIFE, Time...etc showing a line of planes from like 5 airlines that got high jacked all parked in the desert (Libya or Tunis) in the 70s..........then all the planes got blown up.
Yeah the 70s rocked...........clueless
what was the SLA?
kiki
Banned
Jimbo Carter? wasn´t it the Actor?
kiki
Banned
I mean, seriously, the reason of that Capital-Labour balance is exactly the balance of USA vs USSR in strategical terms.It broke down at the beginning of the 80´s.One thing is due to the other IMO.
LuckyR
Legend
Bhagi Katbamna
Legend
The '70s were not that great to live through.
LuckyR
Legend
Well it did include the Golden Age of tennis (in the US)
Poisoned Slice
Bionic Poster
kiki
Banned
WHAT!!!!!!!!!!
Little things like VIETNAM, Jimmy Carter, Energy Crisis, Terrorism, Highjacking airplanes, murder of athletes at the freaking Olympics, boycotts, oil embargoes, INFLATION globally! at least 3 Middle East wars...............DISCO
I grew up in the 70s (born in 1961) and IT SUCKED!!!!!!!! Oh my god and the clothes:shock:
Just a horrible terrible decade........I guess NONE of you remember gasoline rationing in the early 70s or lines going on and on for blocks because no one had gas in the pumps.
How about the Black September, Red Army Faction, SLA.........airplanes getting high jacked on a regular basis........old pictures from LIFE, Time...etc showing a line of planes from like 5 airlines that got high jacked all parked in the desert (Libya or Tunis) in the 70s..........then all the planes got blown up.
Yeah the 70s rocked...........clueless
I congratulate you on your uncanny ability to detect irony.
Although truth be told, I had expected someone else to be quicker than you...
kiki
Banned
No relationship with Che; me guesses
TahoeTennis
Legend
Yes they were.
WHAT!!!!!!!!!!
Little things like VIETNAM, Jimmy Carter, Energy Crisis, Terrorism, Highjacking airplanes, murder of athletes at the freaking Olympics, boycotts, oil embargoes, INFLATION globally! at least 3 Middle East wars...............DISCO
I grew up in the 70s (born in 1961) and IT SUCKED!!!!!!!! Oh my god and the clothes:shock:
Just a horrible terrible decade........I guess NONE of you remember gasoline rationing in the early 70s or lines going on and on for blocks because no one had gas in the pumps.
How about the Black September, Red Army Faction, SLA.........airplanes getting high jacked on a regular basis........old pictures from LIFE, Time...etc showing a line of planes from like 5 airlines that got high jacked all parked in the desert (Libya or Tunis) in the 70s..........then all the planes got blown up.
Yeah the 70s rocked...........clueless
Good times.
Anything was possible, life was full of adventure and danger if you wanted to look for it. Today things are to regulated and boring.
Bartelby
Bionic Poster
Shares of GDP going to labour versus capital show this and Piketty has written the book on it.
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Bartelby
Bionic Poster
KineticChain
Hall of Fame
but what made the 70s unreachable?
But the authorities couldn't quite control things.
kiki
Banned
nailed the essence of it.
I assume you are talking about the USA only.
But in my country, the scene was very different. I spent my entire adolescence (high school to college) in the 1970s, so I have many fond personal memories from that decade. But it was also the decade when my country was put under Martial Law. All our civil liberties were taken away, many of my peers came home in body bags, and it disrupted the political structure so much that it became exponentially more complicated and disgusting afterwards.
But in my country, the scene was very different. I spent my entire adolescence (high school to college) in the 1970s, so I have many fond personal memories from that decade. But it was also the decade when my country was put under Martial Law. All our civil liberties were taken away, many of my peers came home in body bags, and it disrupted the political structure so much that it became exponentially more complicated and disgusting afterwards.
No Europe as well I believe. Definitely England. Late sixties through to late seventies was a time of great social and political upheaval. It was only 20 years after the war, it felt like you could do whatever you put your mind to, whether that be good or bad. Then slowly everything became regulated as the social elite regained control.
bad_call
Legend
yup +1 ...that's what I recall. enlisted in USMC months after high school whilst good old "Tricky Dick" governed. a fellow boot had attended Kent State during the shooting and probably wanted to be on the other side of the barrel...lol. we were a mix of patriots, immigrants, dirt poor, etc. (won't elaborate further...lol) rednecks ready to challenge ourselves. so much has changed but the memories remain.
kiki
Banned
That is quite of an statement
kiki
Banned
The only ones who had tough times, or better said, worse times than before, were the Latams, with those cruent dictatorships from Chile to Brazil and from Peru to Argentina.And, of course, Cambodgians,Iranies and Afgans in the late 70´s.
Unfortunately, Africans weren´t any better but not any worse.
Unfortunately, Africans weren´t any better but not any worse.
chrischris
G.O.A.T.
Could very well be the case.
Outside of music ,many other art forms / design and engineering and thoughts in mixes and blends lead to new good visionary ideas based on analytic thinking and openminded progressive thinking .
As of late, thats lacking. Emotional gut feeling has led .
Hence the mess.
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chrischris
G.O.A.T.
Now it seems big money is denying it .
chrischris
G.O.A.T.
Not Nick Hanauer?
the green god
Professional
70's were awesome. This pretty much encapsulates many a childhood in the 70's:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?annot...&feature=iv&src_vid=AWNVT1D3q9Q&v=2kPy0H9k__M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?annot...&feature=iv&src_vid=AWNVT1D3q9Q&v=2kPy0H9k__M
chrischris
G.O.A.T.
Trickle up??
What new ideas in economy are better than the current hugging onto ever harder to the ideas of the last 30 or so years ?
What new ideas in economy are better than the current hugging onto ever harder to the ideas of the last 30 or so years ?
horriblehack
New User
Glory days!
I was in my prime in the 70', strappling 30 year old man dating college coeds. Now, I'm reduced to dating women in their 30's
Life is cruel.
I was in my prime in the 70', strappling 30 year old man dating college coeds. Now, I'm reduced to dating women in their 30's
Life is cruel.
I thought the innocence of the 60's was destroyed at the infamous Altamont Free Concert in 1969.
Bhagi Katbamna
Legend
We had to grow up while being scared about nuclear war with the USSR(which in 1984 Time Magazine stated would be around for another thousand years) and the coming ice age.
chrischris
G.O.A.T.
True. When it comes to the latter threat , that was not something scientists had predicted yet the myth gained some traction in popular media.In fact , scientists warned already then about the warming caused by deforestation and burning of polluting fossil fuels that is now evident and that we younger ones are left to having to try to deal with,
Ronaldo
Bionic Poster
Bhagi Katbamna
Legend
No, I remember sitting in 4th grade science class reading our science textbook saying that there would be an ice age coming.
Bhagi Katbamna
Legend
http://www.populartechnology.net/2013/02/the-1970s-global-cooling-alarmism.html
read it for yourself.
As Sherlock Holmes used to say to Watson and Lestrade: "There is nothing new under the sun."
read it for yourself.
As Sherlock Holmes used to say to Watson and Lestrade: "There is nothing new under the sun."
chrischris
G.O.A.T.
Oh yes there is. Are you under the false impression the world is quite the same now as in the 1970s? Quit that doobie and wake up,
The fact of the matter is that are a lot more dirty energy sources now than ever before in history.
You can then ad the fact that delibirate deforestation is much worse now than ever before
And there hasnt been more people either, or are you suggesting there are less people now than in the 70's?.
BTW , it was clear back then already in scientific mags and papers of peer reviewed relevant kind a vast majority predicting the warming we are now having. So they knew then what we now have at hand.
( Popular publications like Time and others are another matter and should be take with a grain of salt.)
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Bartelby
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The new left dates from the early to mid sixties.
It diversified into other strands such as feminism and gay liberation in the seventies and then nuclear disarmement and environmental issues in the eighties - more or less.
Club of Rome was actually an elite initiative that achieved popular success.
It diversified into other strands such as feminism and gay liberation in the seventies and then nuclear disarmement and environmental issues in the eighties - more or less.
Club of Rome was actually an elite initiative that achieved popular success.
