Why do things change?

Disco killed the 70's.





Death before disco!!!

 

you know what made the 60s and 70s the kind of mini golden age that they were (at least in the u.s. and possibly europe and G.B., and it's not like there weren't the damd neo-cons or their equivelant arround either, or that dreaming your own dreams wasn't being resisted by a gratuitous self serving mainstream) is that people were looking forward instead of backward. just as what made the 80s and the 50s (dispite the latter's great potential) such drech, and since then, is that people are/were looking backwards in those decades.

so if you want to make the decade you are in the kind of expression of dreaming your own dreams, of boyant indominable creativity, then for gosh sake, instead of crying about how much more you think people may have done so in some previous decade you may not even have been born yet during, go ahead and do so!

hope is built. we can build it.
you look back at times when people accomplished things
that you read about in some history book or something
and think people had maybe an easier time of it because
of what they got done. ain't no way.

people didn't do those things because it was easy
they did them because it was like some kind impossible
challange. and a lot of people just ended up in jail or
some other kind of trouble, and bitter and delusioned and
all that. history doesn't ever tell that part of it, i
guess because it isn't sexy enough, even for historians.

but people made the 60s and 70s what they were in spite of that. because they wanted the dream of what could be. wanted it so bad they would take whatever the selfrightious mainstream would kick them in the face with and keep on comming and keep on.

dreamers would just keep getting up again no matter how many
times they got knocked down. it's true we had the one advantage that there were so many of us, an advantage by the way we are paying for now as there are so many of us reaching and haveing reached retirement age that all the old folks bennies kept getting pushed back to an older and older age just out of reach of us. like the minimum age for senior discounts keeps getting pushed back to older and older in so many places because there are so many of us.

but even in the ranks of our own age peers there were those who were against what we were for.

no one has it easy because of what age they are in any decade. the thing i liked about the 70s was the colors and the immagination. domes and zomes and sculptural looking arcitecture and new and interesting ways of using and combining new and traditional materials togather with each other.

things like that are what the spirit of the times were about, and there ain't no reason in anywhere we can't be doing that now, instead of looking backward to what might have could have been and started to be. but it was only starting to be really, when the 80s came along and quashed it. but it didn't die. that spirit didn't die. dreams don't die. they get put on hold. but the're always surviving hidden just uder the surfact. under the pavement waiting to sprout up between the cracks or behing the dust on the bookshelf.

everything that is good and beautiful isn't dead.
it's just biding its time, waiting for US to give it the chance to come dancing and singing to life again and again.

"they tried to kill us, we survived, let's friggin EAT"

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Come on now, I know you've got a white tuxedo in your closet.....next to your BeeGees albums.

 

Shhhhhh!

 

I only got the butterfly collar shirts!!!!!

 

can u imagine us when we are all in retirement homes and they have dancers for the elderly like they do now but where as now its ballroom dancing and what not, for us it will be dancing to dont worry be happy and maybe mc hammer. i find it amusing to think of myself as a 70 year old dancing to a tune such as the ghost busters theme...i aint afraid of no ghost!!!..lol.

 

Well, I'm going based on the assumption that history repeats itself. So I can't wait until the roaring 20s. That'll be a decade to remember.

 

why are there so many posts about 'what happened to the 60s/70s/80s? those times rocked duuuude.' get over it. it's the past.