>terrible fashion >terrible aesthetics in general, puke green and orange brown everywhere >insane crime rates >widespread drug addiction >urban decay to the point where every large city resembled Detroit >stagflation >widespread communist terrorism and rampant street violence >china tier pollution >fictional works of art such as movies and books are dystopian
Why were the 70's so shitty, what went wrong? Excellent music though.
It's was basically the start of modern leftist politics started to take root in the U.S.
>Higher taxes >Higher inflation >Starting to see the after effects of welfare >Increased regulations >Manufacturing jobs starting to be outsourced >PC view on crime
Luke Hernandez
>Why was x so shitty?
Because you're focusing on the aspects you think are shitty.
Joshua Howard
>more government = Left Americans can be so retarded.
Cameron Morgan
We're talking about the U.S political system here. Don't be so conceited to think that the Europoor way of doing things is the standard of the world because frankly nobody cares about your postmodernist leftist shithole that tolerate sexual assault and terrorism as long as it's in the name of allah.
Camden Adams
You've been watching too much of Hollywood's output from that time, much of which was Reaganite propaganda. The late 70s are when right-wing "lawn order" attitudes started to grow, due to much right-wing propaganda.
Colton Parker
The 1970s was objectively the best decade for movies and music.
Even the shitty dystopian sci-fi films had some great and memorable elements to them. Also, probably the most environmentally conscious decade.
If you're in the west, we can talk about the left & right dichotomy as the same thing.
The only time the left & right bullshit stops making sense is when you go outside the west: where you have shit like nationalist communists or Muslims who we have no idea where to fit in.
Adrian Gomez
Childhood is thinking the 70s were shit because of orange carpet. Adulthood is realizing that the 70s was the most aesthetically pleasing decade there ever was.
I feel sorry for you if you missed it.
Jose Carter
>Manufacturing jobs starting to be outsourced >Leftism Lel, weren't you guys shilling the fuck out of "muh free market will solve everything" for much of the 20th Century?
You only have yourselves to blame. >Today's America >HELP! PROTECT OUR JOBS! GOVERNMENT!!! Government regulation on the economy. Sounds leftist AF..
Nathaniel Stewart
Nah cunt, the 70s was the best decade of the 20th
>people more environmentally concious
>sci fi movies made for adults and are not WWOOZ WOW LAZOR shit (till star wars)
>people dress flashy and cool not deppressing like now
>Joan fucking Baez
>the sheep look up got written
Andrew Torres
>terrible fashion >terrible aesthetics in general, puke green and orange brown everywhere Kill yourself. I bet you think the music sucked too.
Jace Ward
Sci was good back then as well.
David Watson
Music was the only thing that redeemed the seventies. That and the comfy landbarges.
Parker Butler
golden age of american cinema
Bentley Edwards
Here's what I don't get
>Economy sucks in the 70's
>Vietnam war and Watergate makes Americans cynical and introspective for once
>huge environmental catastrophes begin to take shape
>American culture and cinema responds by making the greatest films of the country's history, films that accurately reflect the life most Americans are living in like Taxi Driver showing 70's NYC as the shithole it is or movies about families showing them struggling to keep the house in this horrible economic situation
>Fast forward to today, with very similar stuff to the 70's happening in our country today
>Movies have never been more vapid and devoid of soul, culture is completely lacking in introspection, an even porno is shot in HD McMansions that nobody can fucking afford. Americans are in many ways worse off now than they were in the 70's but yet movies still show the average family as making a billion dollars and living in estates with granite fucking countertops, and every SF movie might as well just be another fucking superhero movie with the lack of anything to say about society (with few exceptions of course)
>>the sheep look up got written
Mah nigga
Carson Evans
There's so much wrong with this post I don't know where to begin
Jonathan Parker
The internet, social media and mobile technologies happened.
Basically killed the middle movies straddling pretentious arthouse crap and soulsuckingly empty and shallow blockbusters. Also, something something information control, context control, la li lu le lo.
Easton Harris
>Also, probably the most environmentally conscious decade Climate change deniers aside, that's right now.
Sebastian Cook
>the most aesthetically pleasing decade there ever was
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
James Martinez
The drugs were good. Cocaine was readily available, green bud, real acid, Afghan hash, Lebanese hash. Mushrooms were cheap.
Early 70's muscle cars were surprisingly affordable. A stock 350 Chevelle would have been a $900.00 car in the late 70's.
My bedroom had that orange high-low carpet, and when I was on shrooms it glowed and pulsed.
Ryder Johnson
1973 oil crisis.
Luke Brooks
how old are you grandpa
Hudson Gutierrez
Not that old. 54.
Kevin Roberts
shit, what are you doing on Veeky Forums? Also please post some more stories
Jonathan Adams
Ah yes, things were good according to a druggie. We should take anything you say at face value.
Blake Hall
Ok.
I got some shrooms from a friend, and the last time I'd taken them...they were $3.00 a gram, by the way..they were fairly predictable and it took about 45 minutes to kick in. So I took them, and thought "I have enough time to put a tank of gas in my car" s I drove off to the Rotten Robbie station.
So I'm leaning against the car in the bad part of town, listening to the gas flow into the car, and purple streamers start coming out of the corners of my peripheral vision.
I paid for the gas after I pumped it, and got in the car. I drove down the street filled with muffler shops and bars, and it was like the scene in 2001 where Dave falls into the monolith.
Made it home just fine, by the way.
Oliver Fisher
If you don't experiment with psychedelics at least a couple times in life you're a loser
Wyatt Barnes
Thanks for keeping company with us autists, old timer.
Brayden Brown
>tfw I will never experience based brutalist architecture in its prime >tfw I will never experience buying a brand new 240Z with money earned over a summer of mowing lawns >tfw I will never experience watching Rocky in theaters Hold me, Veeky Forums.
Dylan Flores
70s were horrifying and it's supported by statistics, not feelings.
Levi Campbell
It was a combination of factors. The energy crisis of the 1970s heavily damaged your economy and a lot of people lost their jobs. Not to mention, soldiers were returning from Vietnam, You didn't really achieve msuch there and it was viewed as a waste of time, money and people by the general public. The soldiers who returned home realised that jobs are nowhere to be found so they remained unemployed. Many of them started joining various gangs since the Vietnam veterans knew how to use guns and were not afraid to kill. These factors caused everything that you mentioned. The same happened here after the Afghan war.
Adrian Roberts
>>tfw I will never experience watching Rocky in theaters
;___; or Taxi Driver or Jaws or Enter the Dragon or The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (i know thats a 60s movie but you feel me)
William Cook
America is very different from Europe when it comes to the meanings of "right" and "left." Every nation in the West doesn't have the same definitions.
Wyatt Parker
New things were being rapidly introduced into the world, and sometimes it takes a while to learn what is good and what is bad. So in the 70's you had a lot of stuff that was... misguided.
Ethan Walker
It was truly a miserable decade
Julian Clark
Because at that moment of introspection, Reagan came along and fucked everything up with his whole "American exceptionalism" shtick and we're still cleaning up the after effects of his bullshit.
Daniel Walker
Wtf? That aesthetic is amazing.
Jeremiah Barnes
>all the shit answers from obvious europoors ITT
The idealism of the 50s and 60s came crashing down. Within ten years we had:
- a messy and unpopular occupation that the military was incapable of fighting - stagflation (prices rising but not wages) - the entire US economy being fucked in the ass ('73 oil crisis) by brown muslims from a country most Americans cannot place on a map, with zero retaliation for it - lots of strikes, especially against new technologies (specifically the intermodal container) which also made many of America's industries noncompetitive - a borderline genocide in Cambodia to force the NVA into the Paris Accords - a very popular US President losing all his credibility as he is outed for being a liar - the near death of America's railroad industry due to the freeway network and jet plane - constant terrorism from enviomentalists and southerners - South Vietnam falling to communism anyway - America's biggest nuclear disaster, Three Mile Island (no injuries but the media was paranoid) - effects of smog started being understood - Panama allowed to be independent - a prolonged hostage crisis in Iran, which the US military was unable to fix
It was a total shitshow and everyone just wanted it to be over. Reagan, a TV actor turned politician, offered just that.
Nathan Russell
Best answer
Nicholas Baker
>Nixon >Very popular I was under the impression he started the modern "he's an absolute dogshit candidate, but at least he's not the other guy" trend in American politics. Is that just revisionist history colored by his public disgrace?