Ask HN: Will the energy of the 80s ever come back to the West?

>>keepam+(OP)
Are you sure you don't mean the energy of the 70s?

(When were you 13 years old? ;-)

Ha. 70s is a diff vibe. To me it's diffuse, unfocused, open and permeable, but no direction -- no decisiveness. The 80s is all like "We know what we want and we are going there now! You with us? Okay, come along! You're not? CYA later, alligator." Hahaha! :)

But I'm curious -- for you, where was the 70s good and what was good about it? :) haha! :)

>>keepam+Kj
70s US: it had been under a decade since everyone had finally agreed people with lots of melanin were also people, and soon the states would ratify the ERA, finally agreeing that people without Y chromosomes were also people. Then all the old square bigots and chauvinists would eventually die off naturally and everything would be groovy.

At the time, of course, life was limited to dancing to disco and blasting classical on the Klipsch and gaining another few hundred feet uphill of mellow on Mt. Tam, but soon —maybe even by 2020*?— we'd be hang gliding in space colonies at the Lagrange points, eg https://nss.org/wp-content/uploads/Bernal_Interior_AC76-0628...

* after all, extrapolating from:

  1903 - beginning of manned aeronautics
  1961 - beginning of manned spaceflight

just imagine what another 60 years of aerospace would bring!

>>082349+hH1
Hahaha! Wow, that's quite a write up, hahahahahaha! :) Thank you :)

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