Simels is apparently nostalgic for atmospheric nuclear testing, Bull Connor tearing black people apart with dogs, KKK murders, Bloody Sunday, the Vietnam War, The assassination of Patrice Lumumba and its horrific aftermath, the invasion of the Dominican Republic and its horrific aftermath, The Assassinations of JFK, RFK the Reverend MLK jr. back alley abortions, women being kept in the pink collar ghetto (those who weren't toiling in horrific conditions in the blue collar version of that) etc. etc. etc.
No doubt it was a relatively good time to be a straight, white, middle class-upper middle class male - I remember such things as a TV show called "It's A Man's World," No women reporters or news readers. Nancy Dickerson got about a 4 minute News spot as the soaps were on. And here's a hint, when they talked about "a man's world" not only did they not mean any men of color, they didn't mean anyone in the LGBT world. And, yeah, it really sucked in many ways to be LGBT back in the legendary 60s. Especially for LGBT people of color.
And, Steverino, there's good music in every decade but most of it always sucks. The 60s had at least if not more than its fair share of that crap. Lots of the movies sucked. While TV managed to get suckier the longer it went on Newt Minnow didn't call it The Vast Wasteland back then for nothing. And, good Lord, the food, the chemicals, the sugar, the heart attacks! The 60s were one of the worst decades for food in the U.S of A.
Nostalgia is a stupid and cheap and easy form of sentimentality that never remembers it as it really was. If you're going to make up stuff why not get creative about it instead of indulging in Simels' favorite genre, the tiresomely derivative.
Shorter Sparky: The past completely sucks.
ReplyDeleteSimps: "Screw them, I was the center of my own little universe and still am."
DeleteI never said the past completely sucks, I pointed out that lots of things about it did. For you, that's too high a level of sophisticated discernment to navigate. You're the Capt. Peachfuzz of intellectualism.
You're so right, Sparkles. America in the 60s was an absolute dystopian nightmare hellhole. Being alive back then was like living through Cormac McCarthy's THE ROAD.
ReplyDeleteYou're so Simels, Simps, to claim that I said anything like that. Though, don't make me laugh, like you read the novel when you watched the movie.
DeleteFuck you, shithead, I read the book. You didn’t read it OR see the movie.
ReplyDeleteUh,hun, I see.
DeleteSo, no, you didn’t. Quel surprise,
ReplyDeleteA. I didn't claim to have read the book, B. I didn't say if I had or hadn't, C. I wonder if there is a word for the reading disorder you have, that whenever you read something, well, kind of read it, you make it say what you'd like it to say instead of what it does say. I mean other than immature and stupid.
DeleteI don't think you read things unless they're about you. You and The Donald, you've got more than Queens in common.