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Very sure! :)

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+(OP)
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+xn1
Hahaha! Wow, that's quite a write up, hahahahahaha! :) Thank you :)

>>082349+xn1
I was watching the Joe Rogan Experience episode yesterday with Diana Pasulka, and they discussed something intriguing towards the end. They delved into the war on drugs, drawing connections with the counterculture movement and political activism. It was suggested that the outlawing of various drugs, particularly hallucinogens, was an attempt to dampen the temperature of the activist movement, perceived as a threat to governing systems. According to Joe Rogan, this marked the beginning of the war on drugs at the end of the 70s.

Then came the 80s, a period Rogan described as a clumsy expression of perhaps the wrong values – a perspective that struck me significantly. This era represented a departure from the openness of the 70s, which I find highly valuable. My previous comment didn't fully capture the importance I place on the availability of hallucinogenic drugs and associated experiences (their connection with UAP and religion is explored in the podcast as well), which I believe can be experienced without societal decay or government collapse.

Rogan and Pasulka highlighted the contrast between the 70s and 80s. The 70s brought an expansion of experiences through fantastic drugs, while the 80s, post-war on drugs, ushered in a change not just in societal values but also in the drugs themselves. The shift towards substances like cocaine, seen as ego-driven, was emblematic of this change. It's fascinating and somewhat saddening to think that the energetic and valuable thread of the 70s was lost in the 80s.

Despite the positive energy of the 80s, I feel we need to recapture the 70s vibe. I highly recommend watching this podcast episode, especially for that insightful discussion, as I think it'll resonate with many.