70/80’s were a period of time right after the civil rights movement, so they had to acknowledge racism existence as material. 90/00’s try and pretend that they live in a post racial landscape while the world still very structurally racist (I mean look at Clinton and the crime bill for the quintessential example).
If you were closer to the civil rights movement you had to engage with the fact that racism was real, and mockery contempt, absurdist, reductionist approaches work well for that
I like to watch BBC archive videos from the 60s-80s, and so much of it is relatable to today: angst about Russia, the US, China; cost of housing, and groceries; the horrible job landscape; government overreach and under-regulation
I really think that we as a species havent changed that much over the last 10,000 years
Depends on what it was. Episodes of forward-looking shows like Star Trek or other series that tackled social issues in episodes are going to be wildly different than something like Revenge of the Nerds.
I’ve also experienced the opposite. Watching shows/movies from the 70s and 80s and thinking, “this is woke af”
70/80’s were a period of time right after the civil rights movement, so they had to acknowledge racism existence as material. 90/00’s try and pretend that they live in a post racial landscape while the world still very structurally racist (I mean look at Clinton and the crime bill for the quintessential example).
If you were closer to the civil rights movement you had to engage with the fact that racism was real, and mockery contempt, absurdist, reductionist approaches work well for that
I like to watch BBC archive videos from the 60s-80s, and so much of it is relatable to today: angst about Russia, the US, China; cost of housing, and groceries; the horrible job landscape; government overreach and under-regulation
I really think that we as a species havent changed that much over the last 10,000 years
Depends on what it was. Episodes of forward-looking shows like Star Trek or other series that tackled social issues in episodes are going to be wildly different than something like Revenge of the Nerds.
I think because we expect so much of that to be horrible, that when it isn’t we are pleasantly surprised.
yeah, for sure the breaking of expectations is a big part of it.
but i’ve also seen some stuff that would be denounced by the right as “DEI woke nonsense” even by today’s standards