12-18-2022, 03:12 PM
The fundamentalist-evangelical phase of the Boom Awakening starts to lose its luster, and nothing is there to replace it as Awakening behavior. America goes full-bore consumerism (even if millions are damned to supply the consumerist binges without getting a chance to partake in them. The MBA school takes off in importance for intellectual and moral mediocrities looking for an edge in life. The middle-to-late 1980's are the peak of the shopping-mall culture, and this is about the time in which "shopping channels" appear on broadcast TV.
Popular culture may have gone 3T earlier for becoming mindless hedonism and sexuality (disco was a portent in the late 1970's. Economic inequality intensified, as the factory jobs started to get exported and such jobs available for most young adults were minimum-wage work in which one was expected to show the "Happy to Serve You" smile even if you were contemplating suicide because the American Dream was your nightmare.
America became stupider because one almost had to be stupid to be happy if one didn't already have everything made and hierarchical in command-and-control business models taught in the MBA schools, and represive of any attitude inconsistent with the idea that those who own the gold have the right to duty to crack the whip. For many it was a time to count their blessings -- always thinking of how worse things could get and that they had not experienced that yet. Hedonism was available, but it was an expensive escape that brought death instead of a drug downer.
Yuck! I hated the 3T and wouldn't impose it on anyone.
Popular culture may have gone 3T earlier for becoming mindless hedonism and sexuality (disco was a portent in the late 1970's. Economic inequality intensified, as the factory jobs started to get exported and such jobs available for most young adults were minimum-wage work in which one was expected to show the "Happy to Serve You" smile even if you were contemplating suicide because the American Dream was your nightmare.
America became stupider because one almost had to be stupid to be happy if one didn't already have everything made and hierarchical in command-and-control business models taught in the MBA schools, and represive of any attitude inconsistent with the idea that those who own the gold have the right to duty to crack the whip. For many it was a time to count their blessings -- always thinking of how worse things could get and that they had not experienced that yet. Hedonism was available, but it was an expensive escape that brought death instead of a drug downer.
Yuck! I hated the 3T and wouldn't impose it on anyone.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.