This has always been kind of true, I guess, but there was the sense in the '70s of a culture attempting, in its grasping and pill-addled way, to figure out some new stuff as a way of reconciling the collapse of what had briefly seemed like the future.Įven when this was good, it was ugly. The people making the movies and music and television of the era were horny and ambitious and earnest, they were ingesting pills and powders whose effects they barely understood and hadn't really thought about, they chased dumb fads and skipped the required reading and sometimes found their way into making something great but more often fired a few million dollars and months of human effort into the old machinery only to watch as a cloudy oblong nubbin of crystalized cocaine and one single roller skate plonked anticlimactically out the other end. ![]() ![]() The popular culture of the 1970s is almost impossible to parse in retrospect.
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