07-28-2020, 09:34 AM
(07-28-2020, 12:06 AM)Einzige Wrote: The American High was a drab, corporate, suburban period at best, in which conspicuous consumption became mainstream. Pretty Unravel-ly.
It may have been so, and yet in many ways corporate power was more in check to what came beginning with Reagan. And though you had some large retail chains such as Sears, retail as a whole was much more independent, as you had for example your neighborhood shoe stores, music stores, etc. The advent of television most certainly ushered in the era of advertising frenzy. It was the beginning of an era that prized consumption which accelerated big time during the following 3T despite numerous pullback attempts during the 2T. This no doubt contributed to making liars out of all those futurists who had predicted a society of ever increasing leisure time. Do any of you think we will ever really see that?