12-16-2016, 09:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-16-2016, 09:42 PM by Eric the Green.)
I agree with X_84 AD. There is much reason to suspect the early 80s are also 3T, but what I see from the early 80s culture are the originating "new wave" music impulses that became routine in the 3T. The early 80s I call a "counter-awakening" that also includes the end of the 1970s.
It was an Awakening era still, and a lot of Awakening trends continued into the early 80s, and got more codified. Such as how the new age movement coalesced around authors such as Marilyn Ferguson ("The Aquarian Conspiracy") and Fritjof Capra, and how the Green Party politically organized the ecology and peace movements. The anti-nuclear movement (both the war and energy aspects) was very strong in the early 80s, continuing the thrust of the Awakening. The Nuclear Freeze was a part of it, and so were the movements against US missiles in Europe. Democratic socialism was very much on the rise there as well. "The Day After" TV show and the crash of the Korean Airliner brought the nuclear fears to a climax in 1983. It was as if little had changed since the beginning of the Awakening when Bob Dylan was singing "it's a hard rain's a gonna fall!"
But in the late 70s, you had the counter-awakening that continued into the early 80s. The "moral majority" helped elect Reagan and defeat the equal rights amendment. The gay movement and reaction to it were both strong. The tax revolt was another aspect of right wing insurgency that started with Prop.13 in California in 1978 and helped elect Reagan.
But it's important to remember that Reagan's programs were unpopular in his first term, and did not cure the recession that elected him. It continued through 1982 and into 1983. But an upsurge in economic growth was used by Reagan to deceive the people that a "great boom" had begun. It had NOT, but the propaganda worked. People (as for example Warren Dew here) believed that it did, and so Reagan's "morning in America" nonsense thrust America into a 3T of indulgence, greed and laissez faire accepted by all generations. Something of the same happened in Europe under Thatcher and Kohl.
It was an Awakening era still, and a lot of Awakening trends continued into the early 80s, and got more codified. Such as how the new age movement coalesced around authors such as Marilyn Ferguson ("The Aquarian Conspiracy") and Fritjof Capra, and how the Green Party politically organized the ecology and peace movements. The anti-nuclear movement (both the war and energy aspects) was very strong in the early 80s, continuing the thrust of the Awakening. The Nuclear Freeze was a part of it, and so were the movements against US missiles in Europe. Democratic socialism was very much on the rise there as well. "The Day After" TV show and the crash of the Korean Airliner brought the nuclear fears to a climax in 1983. It was as if little had changed since the beginning of the Awakening when Bob Dylan was singing "it's a hard rain's a gonna fall!"
But in the late 70s, you had the counter-awakening that continued into the early 80s. The "moral majority" helped elect Reagan and defeat the equal rights amendment. The gay movement and reaction to it were both strong. The tax revolt was another aspect of right wing insurgency that started with Prop.13 in California in 1978 and helped elect Reagan.
But it's important to remember that Reagan's programs were unpopular in his first term, and did not cure the recession that elected him. It continued through 1982 and into 1983. But an upsurge in economic growth was used by Reagan to deceive the people that a "great boom" had begun. It had NOT, but the propaganda worked. People (as for example Warren Dew here) believed that it did, and so Reagan's "morning in America" nonsense thrust America into a 3T of indulgence, greed and laissez faire accepted by all generations. Something of the same happened in Europe under Thatcher and Kohl.