2 replies on “The Stratosphere Lounge Episode 219”
In the ’60s, the future looked as clean, bright and good as the New York World’s Fair and Walt Disney imagined it for us. I lived through that and can sincerely say that the fair and Disney were not trying to propagandize us; they were reflecting the spirit of the time. Anti-American rhetoric had not spread (much) to our schools, media and entertainment.
I believe the blows to America’s optimism – and thus, the outlook for the space program – were the ’60s assassinations, race riots, anti-war movement, and the Nixon and Carter administrations.
By Reagan’s presidency, the left had a foothold in the culture and was implacably committed to preventing a return to the optimism and values of prior generations.
2 replies on “The Stratosphere Lounge Episode 219”
In the ’60s, the future looked as clean, bright and good as the New York World’s Fair and Walt Disney imagined it for us. I lived through that and can sincerely say that the fair and Disney were not trying to propagandize us; they were reflecting the spirit of the time. Anti-American rhetoric had not spread (much) to our schools, media and entertainment.
I believe the blows to America’s optimism – and thus, the outlook for the space program – were the ’60s assassinations, race riots, anti-war movement, and the Nixon and Carter administrations.
By Reagan’s presidency, the left had a foothold in the culture and was implacably committed to preventing a return to the optimism and values of prior generations.
I love those ‘accidental’ endings!