12-16-2016, 09:33 AM
(12-07-2016, 05:56 AM)Tuss Wrote: Where are you from, Remy?
As a European, I largely agree with you and I think it's approximately the European experience. I used to claim the 2T ended in 1977. Nowadays I settle for 1980. So from the viewpoint of the theory it would seem we were ahead of the US. Or maybe it's just that this forum is heavily dominated by lefties who refused to accept the world had changed until Reagan's second term, by which time they were forced to wake up and smell "the Morning in America". For a good part of the early 80's, they instead retreated to their dens, where they made exciting forecasts, trying to persuade each other how Reagan sure enough was soon to drop the bomb. Subconsciously, nuclear Armageddon perhaps appeared more palatable to idealistic Boomers than admitting they could have been wrong about anything.
I am Franco-American. Born in raised in the US but live in France now. Anyhow, what makes people think the early eighties were still part of the Awakening? Even the music from 1980-1982 had that typical "eighties" sound to it. Same with a lot of the movies from that time. They felt more 3T than 2T.