The 1970s are back. Yaaaayyyy.

Gas shortages, police violence, rampant inflation, despair and hopelessness. How are we to get past these unprecedented issues?!?
Well actually, we’re talking about the 1970s, not the 2020s.
And just as then, as now, a lot may seem negative but there’s also a lot that’s positive. Things will get better, we just have to have optimism and continue to act on it.
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[@koen8993]

To add to the point about Alien. At one point Ripley finds out the ship's crew is judged expendable by their company super computer. It's not just inflexible rules, but about a company that cares about its interests over your value as a human being.

[@UnbeltedSundew]

If I recall correctly that was in relation to bringing back the xeno "specimen" and they were deemed an acceptable price to be paid.

[@bfranciscop]

A computer is just an enforcer of rules which were written by humans. The algorithm which demotes content on youtube is just a systematization of choices made by humans. A company is just an institutionalization of decisions made by humans. The point made by FEE is that the harm comes most often from distant top-down rules/decisions which are disconnected from your local reality. In these cases, the business, the computer, the algorithm, are all just enforcement mechanisms.

[@Some_Guy77]

Well gee, doesn't that sound familiar.

[@eagleeyeedit]

Thanks for making this video, and reminding us theres an end to this nightmare of a decade.

[@kellybmarketing3194]

I'd rather live in the 70s anyday, hands down. If I could go back, I'd choose to be born in 1958. To be in my prime youth during the 70s then ride the prosperous wave of the 80s. Even though I'd be in my 60s now, it would've been worth it. The late 60s, 70s and early 80s are my favorite music decades and there were no smartphones. My parents and many boomers tell me they totally agree life was better then. My grandma was born in 1929 and she loved the 40s.

[@akumaking1]

All because Democrats kept screeching since 2015.

[@JohnP538]

Watch the credit card companies raise rates, Mortgages will go up, Rent will go up. Everything will go up except your wages. Ahh, the 70's they really sucked. Been there done that.

[@maxxor-overworldhero6730]

Back, but much, much, worse.

[@stillbuyvhs]

Fun fact: the miniature tower used in "The Towering Inferno" was 80' tall.

[@tolpacourt]

Eighty feet tall? Sounds reasonable.

[@otakuConn]

Nuh uh

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

That's 24 Meters for all of us in the rest of the world.

[@kirk2767]

Eighty feet, or eighty inches? If there is one thing the documentary "This is Spinal Tap" taught me, it's that the difference is important.

[@stillbuyvhs]

@@kirk2767 70'; I looked it up. The tower had to be that big to make the fire look right. Even then, it took special care to keep the flames in scale.

[@DoctorPhobos]

FEE: "The 70s are back!" Me: "At least there's no Disco." Music Industry: *laughing in modern crap music*

[@bizariet]

I'd MUCH rather get disco back over the shit hip hop I hear everywhere I go.

[@DoctorPhobos]

@@bizariet True. But, “Better Dead Than Disco” sounds better than “Better R…. Than Rap”.

[@faustsin9366]

Dude Disco easily beats modern rap wich is terrible!

[@latemanparodius5133]

Don't forget... rap existed back then as well. Perhaps part of the trouble is that time has a way of rotting away the trash to let the gold shine through. I'm certain there was garbage music back then also, but since it was garbage, it was tossed aside for the good things. These days, there's such a glut of content that it's hard to find the nuggets of gold in the sea of mediocre trash that hasn't rotted away yet.

[@davidford3115]

@@latemanparodius5133 You are correct. Movies like Forrest Gump only used the hits of the era, not the average songs that nobody remembers.

[@ashleypenn7845]

Thanks for this. I've been trying to maintain as much of a sense of normalcy as I can for the sake of my kids and that'd helped keep me positive. They're on the sofa watching Tom and Jerry and drinking smoothies. Yesterday they rode bikes with the neighbor kids. Monday we go strawberry picking. If ever I'm feeling overwhelmed by all the negativity, I disconnect from the web and go spend time with them. Life is so much simpler and joyful when viewed through the eyes of children.

[@zoanth4]

I have a feeling in a few years we will all commit atrocities to feed our hungry children

[@ashleypenn7845]

@@zoanth4 I've been pretty proactive about that and we have a decent storage. Hopefully we'll hold out long enough for things to turn for the better.

[@-Siculus-Hort-]

stock up on can goods.

[@-Siculus-Hort-]

@@JackFalltrades yes. AND 2001 and 2020-2021 but there has been several food processing plants that have accidentally been burnt down and there is also baby formula shortage.

[@-Siculus-Hort-]

@@JackFalltrades "prepping" doesn't hurt. anything..

[@jonathanellis5811]

This channel is vastly underrated. I love your content.

[@Rhyman1992]

Personally, I think pop culture will get better when the writers, producers, and directors stopped pushing agendas to focus on entertainment for entertainment's sake.

[@MyShiroyuki]

Or rather, remove the activists and put real writers, producers, and directors back in charge.

[@MrNoot39449]

@Jun3 Shiroyuki when they get short in money, that's exactly what they'll do

[@rumblebird9888]

@@MrNoot39449 Kinda like what happened to Netflix recently

[@GokuMcDuck]

Nope, things get worse.

[@miltongalindosantibanez9863]

Ma boy, they always did. The problem is that wheb you don't agree with them

[@tjedwards4254]

I've been saying that this is the 1970's for a year now and it's great to hear others say it

[@peskylisa]

So have I

[@codyge18]

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[@colbyhill25]

Well I’m not sure it’s great… I would’ve preferred you be wrong lol. But here we are. 🙄

[@grekygrek]

Yeah it's not great. I get what you mean, you don't feel alone any more...but it's awful that we live in a serpico and chinatown-esque world. Corruption and greed and evil win and we the people lose. I mean...look at the president and his son....awfully strange that not so long ago hinter was making millions off a Ukrainian oil company and no one questioned anything. Everything is so obviously blackened with corruption and nothing is done. A show trial about a woman celeb slandering a male celeb gets constant coverage and fools wait outside just to yell...meanwhile a trial that couldve implicated the people around and or INVOLVED in said show trial is silenced and memory holed.

[@DMAGAEscober]

Only worse, in this version of the 70s, Star Wars sucks and the music is mostly trash.

[@mikejacob3536]

I was too young to deal with the '70's then, and I'm too old for a rerun...

[@Steel-101]

Do you guys want to know what’s freaky? The gas ⛽️ prices that we have now are higher than the gas prices in the film “I Am Legend”. I’m not kidding. I know that’s not a 70-80s film but still it’s really freaking me out that our prices are higher than the apocalypse prices lol 😆

[@Brabbs]

@valcaron its more eyecatching tbh

[@Steel-101]

@valcaron Yes yes it is necessary. Because it’s fun 😁 ⛽️ ⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️

[@thelordz33]

@@Steel-101 it's cringe

[@Steel-101]

@@thelordz33 Nope. still fun 😁⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️

[@TheRealWilliamWhite]

@@thelordz33 🧢

[@geoffreydowdle5751]

No wonder we have an obsession with the 80s. To fantasize about being past the problems of the 70s without looking at what causes those issues..

[@davidford3115]

Well, and the 80s were a period of hope and optimism in the wake of the 1970s. Keep in mind that part of that was due to the few positive media productions like TOS and TNG Star Trek.

[@MrNoot39449]

Sadly we'll have to live through it too now, without any indication that we'll be getting any 80's era at all

[@geoffreydowdle5751]

@@MrNoot39449 Whoa, that sounds scary.

[@geoffreydowdle5751]

@@davidford3115 haha I love that star trek is getting cred for giving us hope in the 80s

[@savagetv6460]

@@davidford3115 it's cause Reagan brought back our optimism

[@TfuckyoutubeC]

I liked "that 70's show". It was mostly a group of friends hangin out in the basement, watching TV, getting high together. The one guy's dad letting him know "Don't be a dumbass." And "Get a job, dumbass!". "that 20's show" is gonna suck. One dude sitting home, government shutting society down, just silently playing video games, occasionally chatting to ppl in multiplayer, and his single Mother bein like "You're wasting your life." And "Why don't you go to college like that Zuckerberg kid, you can do that stuff."

[@carlos_takeshi]

That '30s Show and That '40s Show are going to be super fun.

[@tolpacourt]

In my town, parents didn't let their kids lounge around getting high in the basement or garage. You had to sneak around outdoors to smoke weed. The seventies sucked. People ate a lot of canned food. The food was awful in general.

[@KiraSlith]

@@carlos_takeshi Ah yes, the story of fxrphd and erbaweyh sitting on a couch in the post nuclear earth talking about philosophy and kicking around the plastic junk humanity left behind, will be remembered for generations of silpha kind.

[@natejennings5884]

Well, the 1970s gave us some classic movies and music. Maybe, just maybe, we'll start getting some of that now. I was born in 1975 so I experienced really cool 1970s stuff from recorded music and old VHS tapes in the 1980s and 1990s.

[@creepyrobsta5509]

@NateJennings NOPE we won't get that today because creativity is stiffled by companies trying to appeal to EVERYONE. A unique or original film has to be unique or original, and sadly, no major studio will bankroll that, unless it's dumbed down for the masses.

[@bitingapotato3277]

Okay, but let's not forget that the 70's also gave us the original Star Wars, Up In Smoke, Smokey and the Bandit, Animal House, The Villain, Blazing Saddles, Every Which Way But Loose, and the Life of Brian among many more. It wasn't all doom and gloom. Also, Alien is totally worth an episode just for itself. Still relevant to this day on many levels.

[@mirzaahmed6589]

Jaws and Rocky too.

[@Knightmessenger]

As Empire of Dreams pointed out, Star Wars broke the mold of so many 70s movies which helped make it successful.

[@xenn4985]

Or is that part of the problem? The best things you can name from the 70s are fucking movies. What a god awful decade.

[@frzstat]

@@xenn4985 - Kawasaki Jet Ski 1972, Makita cordless drill 1978, Sony Walkman 1979, were all good things from the ‘70s

[@frzstat]

@@xenn4985 also, the Apple II and Radio Shack TRS-80 computers were introduced in 1977

[@itsthenewsouth]

I was born in 72, and being a teen in the 80s and young adult in the 90s was probably the best time to have been alive at those ages.

[@evanc6110]

Lol I listen to boomers tell me how the best to time to be alive was in 1972. Can't wait to tell future generations that the best time to live was 2022.

[@krunkle5136]

@@evanc6110 they were born in 72, so the best time for them would've been the late 70s and 80s.

[@evanc6110]

@@krunkle5136 gen x is 72

[@ciscornBIG]

@@evanc6110 Evan, please get off the internet. You missed every single point and it's just cringe. Go.

[@nathanseper8738]

I'm surprised you didn't mention Soylent Green, a movie that predicted we'd all be making people into food in 2022.

[@danielv3228]

Love him or hate him, Trump was in charge during the best financial time in my life. A pandemic was needed to take him out and all it did is help prove just how well he did. Biden could not have messed up any worse than he and his handlers have.

[@FTChomp9980]

The answer was that Trump is a business man and Biden is a crook of a Politician you'll guess which one I voted for? (Hint:Its the Business man)

[@JonathanRossRogers]

You're giving the president way too much credit for the economy.

[@grekygrek]

@@FTChomp9980 Trump was a legendary president and yet people STILL are talking shit about him lmao. They still call anyone they disagree with trumpers and call anyone who isnt a dumbass communist a "bible clutching conservative" and they also call ya racist too lmfao

[@vertigoz]

Why don't you ask your tax cut companies why despite the tax cut you get all this inflation. Perhaps the difference between Obama and Biden is that there was. Trump between, it makes no sense to blame Biden when with Obama there was no such kind of a problem, and you got two terms of it, wanna blame a president perhaps blame Trump since he could handle the pandemic, for him it will all would disappear like for magic, like many of his supporters believe, things happens for magic

[@vertigoz]

@@FTChomp9980 who has tons of bankruptcy on his hands, and scams... You really should look for whom your idols are

[@fmilan1]

The 70s is not back. In the 70s the debt to GDP was around 40~60%, now it is 130%. But don't be sad... the 30s and 40s are back complete with possible world wars AND depression.

[@voxaliqui4279]

One majot difference. US debt in the 1980 was 34%.... today 128% of GDP

[@goldenhorse4823]

Don't ask questions. Just take blind optimism

[@fearthehoneybadger]

Add the apparent restart of the Cold War. Not the kind of nostalgia we want.

[@Rensune]

Nah. It's about to get Hot

[@SomeDigitalGhost]

@@brainderp808 He means civil war in the US.

[@SomeDigitalGhost]

@@brainderp808 I didn't say it would, I was clearing up what he was talking about

[@davidford3115]

@@brainderp808 Nobody thought the US would have a Civil War in 1860 until PTG Beauregard fired on Fort Sumpter. Don't succumb to positivity bias. Don't think that it will never happen because very few thought that Russia would invade Ukraine until they did.

[@davidford3115]

@@brainderp808 Considering the people claiming that Russia was going to invade are the same people who claimed Trump was a Putin Puppet, you can easily forgive me for making that assumption. America's "intelligence agencies" have no intelligence. For 4 years Putin left Ukraine alone under Trump. Hell, he didn't invade in the months after Joe Bite-Me took office. It was not until AFTER the fall of Kabul and the Taliban taking control of Afghanistan that Putin acted. So, again, you are falling for the 2020 hindsight fallacy.

[@emperorarasaka]

The best part of being back in the '70s is getting to live the '80s. Let's make sure to get Synthwave right this time.

[@MrNoot39449]

That means we're going to get Videogames 2 electric boogaloo out of it too

[@thebadwolf3088]

@@MrNoot39449 a new videogame revolution? Almost worth it

[@williamfree9565]

As the saying goes Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. And just like that here we go again

[@grinningtiki220]

And alot of the same people in office then are still there now.

[@davidford3115]

@@grinningtiki220 So true. They are proof positive why high turnover in positions of power is a good thing. "Politicians and diapers need to be changed often, and for the same reasons," -Mark Twain, aka Samuel Clemens.

[@SomeTomfoolery]

Not gonna lie, when you said "1970s", I was pretty sure you were talking about "30 years ago" for a bit longer than I should have.

[@davidford3115]

Same here. I still feel like it is 1998 at times. Things were so much simpler then.

[@chaosgyro]

Between pestilence, war, and promises of famine and death I'm just hoping we have time left for things to get better.

[@flatebo1]

But chaosgyro, you know what they say? Some things in life are bad They can really make you mad Other things just make you swear and curse When you're chewing on life's gristle Don't grumble, give a whistle And this'll help things turn out for the best And Always look on the bright side of life Always look on the light side of life If life seems jolly rotten (hoo-hoo) There's something you've forgotten (hoo-hoo) And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing (hoo-hoo-hoo) When you're feeling in the dumps (hoo-hoo) Don't be silly, chumps (hoo-hoo) Just purse your lips and whistle, that's the thing (hoo-hoo) And Always look on the bright side of life (Come on) Always look on the right side of life For life is quite absurd (hoo-hoo) And death's the final word (hoo-hoo) You must always face the curtain with a bow (hoo-hoo-hoo) Forget about your sin (hoo-hoo) Give the audience a grin (hoo-hoo) Enjoy it, it's your last chance anyhow So always look on the bright side of death A-just before you draw your terminal breath Life's a piece of shit (hoo-hoo) When you look at it (hoo-hoo) Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true (hoo-hoo-hoo) You'll see it's all a show (hoo-hoo) Keep 'em laughin' as you go (hoo-hoo) Just remember that the last laugh is on you (hoo-hoo-hoo) And Always look on the bright side of life Always look on the right side of life (C'mon chaosgyro, cheer up) Always look on the bright side of life Always look on the bright side of life (Worse things happen at sea, you know?) Always look on the bright side of life (what have you got to lose?) (You know, you come from nothing, you're going back to nothing) (What have you lost? Nothing) always look on the bright side of life (Nothing will come from nothing you know what they say?) Always look on the bright side of life (cheer up, ya old bugger, c'mon, give us a grin) (There y'are, see? It's the end of the film) (Incidentally, this record is available in the foyer) Always look on the bright side of life (some of us got to live as well, you know?) (All right, that's the lot, let's get this place knocked down) Always look on the bright side of life (the whole show's dismantled in three weeks) Who do you think pays for all this rubbish?) Always look on the bright side of life (they'll never make their money back, you know) (I told him, I said to him, "Bernie" I said, "they'll never make their money back") Always look on the bright side of life

[@chrishellize]

Really great video. I've found that a lot of things that upsets me or fills me with dread for the future can be alleviated by simply avoiding social media and television news opinion shows. If I dont consume those the list of things to worry about gets drastically smaller.

[@takethesquid]

I've trained my algorithm to be biased towards wholesome. Doesn't completely fix the problem, but it takes off so much edge and anger away

[@NexAngelus405]

"Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events." -Robert A. Heinlein

[@davidford3115]

Heinlein, Asimov, Arhtur C. Clarke, and Carl Sagan were all an inspiration for "classic Star Trek". And during the 1970s and 1980s, embraced their mantra. Sadly, Alex Kurtzman understands nothing from those great futurists in his nihilistic version of Trek.

[@krunkle5136]

How isn't being a pessimistic smart ass not fun also?

[@deepfriedsammich]

One very good thing about the 70's was that it really took the wind out of the Keynesian economic theory. High unemployment happening at a time of high inflation was something that the followers of Keynes assured everyone could not possibly happen.

[@davidford3115]

Yet they never gave up on their claims. Indeed, Barak Obama was the Keynesian President doing exactly what Maynard wanted the Federal government to do. And Biden is just Obama's third term, with the harm having metalized behind the bright period of Trump's 4 years (think walking ghost period of radiation poisoning).

[@deepfriedsammich]

@@davidford3115 The Economists went out and created variants like "Neo-keynesianism." Very few, outside of Paul Krugman, still consider themselves a "classical Keynesian," and they acknowledge the problems in The General Theory, and have pretty much abandoned it in favor of new "sects". You are making the case that the politicians did not change, and are still Keynesians. Of course they didn't, because John Maynard Keynes told the politicians and bureaucrats that it was easy and necessary for political intervention in the economy to ensure maximum efficiency. Of course the politicians won't abandon him. Keynes himself summed up the problem quite pithily: “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.” -- John Maynard Keynes Indeed, the Keynesian Plantation is full of eager politician slaves because the slaves find the defunct "Massa Keynes" so empowering and validating of his chattel, and indulgently endorsing of the activities they are already predisposed to do.

[@garyblack8717]

They're still claiming it can't happen. It seems that economic lessons must be retaught through object lesson once a generation.

[@davidford3115]

@@garyblack8717 Sadly true, yet those of us who learned the lessons from example have to pay the price for the fools who need to learn by personal experience.

[@krunkle5136]

Yes, then came neoliberalism and Regeanomics.

[@PTSayoriD]

It's like the 70s minus the good music, awesome movies, and cool muscle cars. Another thing this decade lacks is the optimism for a better future; because despite how crummy things got in the 70s there was still hope that things would improve. This was reflected in the following decade, the 1980s. Unfortunately for today's youth (Millennials, Gen Z, & Gen Alpha) all metrics indicate that they will be comparatively worse off than their parents & grandparents (Boomers & Gen X).

[@thethoughtcriminal8786]

You failed to mention a small movie made in 77 that changed the way people were viewing the world....you might have heard of it, it was called Star Wars. One optimistic film changed the way we saw ourselves in an instant.

[@davidford3115]

Don't forget Star Trek which was in production during the early 1970s and in syndication during the late 70s. And the popularity of Trek made it possible for Star Wars to be so successful. And today it seems that the two franchises are still in symbiosis as both fandoms are livid over the vandalization by Alex Kurtzman and Kathleen Kennedy.

[@Batmans_Pet_Goldfish]

It was "A New Hope" amidst the depressing societal attitude of the time, wouldn't you say?

[@oniemployee3437]

Shit, man. I just had a depressive episode this week that I got rid of. I don't need another one! :D Really though, thanks for making these videos. I may not watch them in their intirety today or tomorrow, but soon I'll revisit them and soak in all that philosophical goodness.

[@Rensune]

You WISH it was the '70s. Better Music, Better job opportunities for College grads, and a Much higher rate of younger people owning their own homes. The 70s look Great by comparison.

[@Darth_Bateman]

Did you not watch the video at ALL? NO YOU DUCKING DON'T! LMFAO.

[@Rensune]

@@Darth_Bateman yes. And it is Completely ignorant of How bad things are Right now. The Feelings of despair may be similar, but the Actual situation is MUCH worse. Saying "Things are Bad now, but we Turned it around!" when what "turned it around" led Exactly to the terrible situation we're in today. There is no way currently available to do so.

[@Darth_Bateman]

@@Rensune Got news for you : That's fucking life. We hit a turning point into bad times, now we have to find another turning point into good times. There are plenty of available ways, not ways that will solve the problems over night, but there are ways. . .

[@kellybmarketing3194]

If I could step in a time capsule I'd choose to be born in 1958 and ride the wave of the 70s into the prosperous 80s, no questions asked

[@davidford3115]

@@Darth_Bateman Yes, there are turning points into good times. But they will not come with the current people in power, both in the political arena and the "entertainment "and media "industry". It will come not from the people holding the power but from us, the grass roots. We need more Gene Rodenberrys/George Lucas/JRR Tolkiens and fewer Alex Kurtzmans/Kathleen Kennedys/Chris Chibnalls.

[@b.delacroix7592]

Some of us were alive in the 70s, too so we get to watch the rerun.

[@thecornerkid402]

Another point of hope is that, in 1976, in the midst of all that, a young filmmaker named George Lucas told a producer friend, “I’m tired of all this doom and gloom and serious stuff. I want to make something that gives people hope.” I honestly think we’re on the verge of the next Star Wars.

[@michaelvandeginste3497]

Some other good 70's films that mirrored sentiments at the time: The Parallax View Colossus: The Forbin Project Capricorn One The China Syndrome Most thrillers made in that decade had the "just another victim"-type ending.

[@ramoth777]

Oh, don't forget 'Soylent Green'. Relevance: the food prices 😂

[@michaelvandeginste3497]

@@ramoth777 hopefully the notorious aspect of the titular food never applies😐

[@anthonyfrias5533]

We're in the 20s and it's already going to the great depression of the 30s and I've also been seeing people dressing in a manner similar and reminiscent of the 70s including wide bottom hems

[@awesomehpt8938]

The 70s also had a bloody and unpopular war in Vietnam which ended just like in Afghanistan.

[@Code7Unltd]

>The 70s also had a bloody and unpopular war in Vietnam which ended just like in Afghanistan. For contrast, the world saw the a unpopular "war" in Ukraine, whose soldiers were just dipstick Redditors flying there for klout.

[@lainiwakura1776]

The sad part is, it was popular in the beginning.

[@HeIsAnAli]

Cue China invading Vietnam in 2029.

[@davidford3115]

I would say worse that Afghanistan. At least Vietnam had evacuations like Operation Babylift. Contrast that to General Donahu leaving behind civilians so he could have room for this captured war trophy. I distinctly remember seeing videos of helicopters being pushed off carrier decks to make room for Saigon evacuees.

[@noonespecial9840]

I appreciate the positive outlook,,,, here it comes,, BUT, Things are worse now, or will be than the 70's for one simple reason. We, had the 70's to look back on and understand why it was so bad, what were the contributing factors, how it could have been prevented and what NOT TO DO AGAIN. YET here we are, with the exact same people, doing the exact same things, with ZERO accountability and on a much larger scale across a borader spectrum. When will "WE the People" realize that Accountability, must be held true for those that wish to be accountable? So until "We the People" hold those whom wish to Lead, Teach, Manage, Govern and Protect, ACCOUNTABLE, for ALL of their actions, we are doomed to participate in their Imoral, Unjust and completely Unnecessary societal destruction. Or, am I completely missing something?

[@somethingidk786]

It more realistically, the world end, and then anything else but it was a good run time to watch the fireworks now

[@donovanbryant1874]

I propose a sub-series where Shawn goes through decades detailing historical events and political/ social issues

[@pattonramming1988]

The greatest errors of humanity is to believe that the past was idyllic or that the future will see us freed from strife

[@Batmans_Pet_Goldfish]

The future always will, but only if we make it so.

[@callmeej8399]

This is the truth realize you live in an endless cycle. Generations have said the same thing ever since writing.

[@mrosengren4130]

From what I could see about the Towering Inferno... just because its the best new shiny thing, made by the smartest people and the most cutting edge tech means jack in the real world were a simple thing can send it all toppling over. At the end of the day, we need to look at the simple solutions instead of the complicated ones.

[@davidford3115]

The Chinese have a word that translates as "gold and lacquer on the outside, rot and corruption on the inside". Often used to describe the decadence and corruption of Song Dynasty. I think it also applies to the tower in that movie as well as the US today.

[@jimc.goodfellas]

Cringe. Take me back to the 90s, stat

[@matityaloran9157]

14:52, my assumption was because of a juvenile obsession with anti-heroes.

[@thepariah3516]

I was born too late to live through and experience the good times, but born just in time to see the bad times. God give me the strength.

[@sebastienholmes548]

History Does Not Repeat Itself, But It often rhymes. - Mark Twain.

[@samm.8052]

The day did come eventually, but it's always darker before dawn. Stay safe, everyone.

[@cones914]

I don't watch modern movies or news so I'm not affected by this pessimism.

[@tjpprojects7192]

The 70s are back?! Yay! This means Boe Jiden is gonna put EVEN MORE Black Americans in jail than he did back then, and he ALREADY has the highest score among all politicians! I looove Boo Jidone!!

[@yuri2604]

It’s funny because you talked about Saturday Night Fever as if it was a shiny happy film but it’s actually really dark and quite disturbing.

[@inmjoh]

In Alien, you have it completely backwards. The rules required Kane to be quarantined for 24 hours. Ash broke those rules letting Lambert, Dallas, Kane and Kanes chestburster into the ship. It was NOT following protocol that let the alien into the ship.

[@sarwatihsan5165]

I rewatched the movie because of this video and came back to see if anyone commented this :) Edit: though perhaps he was referring to the science division's protocols (retrieve the alien specimen; crew is expendable) - the crew didn't know about that though; and the last few weren't pleased to discover it from the company-robot-scientist-dude, Ash.

[@Hardrian_Hardrada_Cicero]

"Well, who'd have seen this coming" -some character of movie I've seen before (don't know which, and can't remember sorry) I'm not totally surprised at all by this comparison. I've since viewed Biden and his administration similar akin to the Carter administration and honestly, I view the 70s as a low point for the United States and possibly elsewhere in the west as well. Many more adamant folks of my generation would view this as additional ammunition against the boomers for plethora of reasons one of them being their actions in both the 60s and 70s are the reason why are politics are back to where they are again as you put it though under different circumstances that makes Mark Twain's comment on history not necessarily repeating itself but often rhyming time to time a common occurrence. I was initially going to end this comment here until I finished watching the whole video and for what it's worth, while the 70s is my opinion the lowest point for our country and elsewhere (especially what happened after Vietnam, Cambodia, and USSR), there were many good things about the 70s that I did like, the release of Pong by ATARI kick started the video game industry and the result of these policies would led to the election of Ronald Reagan who's series of tax and budget cuts end up leading to a very prosperous time in the 80s. So, despite it all I still have hope and optimism with the future as hope is scientifically proven to be very powerful in our drowning times. Thanks Shuan!

[@lainiwakura1776]

Dude, Reagan raised taxes. Look it up, he did it later in his presidency, but he did. He also decided to close mental hospitals instead of overhauling the system, increasing the homeless population and denying those who needed it, the help they deserved. It's also been said he might already started suffering from dementia then too.

[@theimmortal4718]

Obama was closer to Carter

[@Hardrian_Hardrada_Cicero]

@@theimmortal4718 I mean that wouldn't surprise but I sadly do not know all of the policies that were legislated and passed under the Obama administration other than Obama Care.

[@davidford3115]

@@theimmortal4718 Agreed. And Joe Bite-Me is Obama's third term taken to its logical conclusion. Seriously, almost all of the white house staff are almost exactly the same people.

[@theimmortal4718]

@@davidford3115 He's the stand in. His cabinet is all Clinton and Obama recycles. Psaki was HRCs press secretary at state.

[@silverhawkscape2677]

Knowing that the first Star Wars film was released during the 70s. I can see why It was special. George Lucas really went against the grain and made a Optimistic Movie in a Galaxy Far Far away about a Rebellion actually dealing a successful blow to a totalitarian Empire. A hopeful Optimistic movie in a time where everything was depressing. No wonder people cheered when Han Solo came in the last minute to save the day.

[@rikiishitoru8885]

_Joe_ is a movie from 1970 that really encapsulates the 70s for me (at least how I can see it), as does _Midnight Cowboy_ (though that's a 1969 film)

[@silverhawkscape2677]

Sad to thi k even during the terrible 70s. There were good movies made about the themes of those times. Now today, we don't even have the Luxury of good depressig movies. Jist Depressing movies so depressing that its garbage.

[@Darth_Bateman]

Oh god, I'm living in a time loop. . . .We're all in a time loop.

[@Code7Unltd]

If you don't know history, you're doomed to repeat it. However, if you understand history, you're damned to witness it's repetition.

[@Darth_Bateman]

@@Code7Unltd that’s it, I’m starting the rumbling.

[@raedwulf61]

The 70s sucked, the 80s were cool, and the 90s rocked! Then came 9/11... downhill ever since.

[@Little_Sams_Top_Guy]

I like to remain optimistic but i do believe we are actually looking at the “fall of Rome” this time but this time western civilization is Rome

[@albionicamerican8806]

I wish the 1970's were back. America was still a 90 percent white country then.

[@whit3rabb3t29]

Cant even compare. The wef, eu council at brussels werent implementing a great reset then.

[@theproceedings4050]

Artist aren't holding up a mirror, things are much worse now than even the movies, you really gotta just laugh at the satire that are the gritty movies nowadays. I'm not nihilistic, I know we change and get back to better times, but to do so would require a concerted effort that would seem impossible for the many in our culture that want to perpetuate bad times. We don't agree about what good times look like, defeat for one is victory for the other.

[@MrInternetHermit]

Small pop trivia: The guy who created the first mobile phone was watching the original Star Trek and thought "This isn't sci-fi, we could totally do this today!". After he made a pair of mobile phones, he sent one to the office of his top competitor & called him from outside the entrance of his competitor's company to brag.

[@SkaalKesh]

Talk about BDE.

[@davidford3115]

Yeah, Original series Star Trek came out in the 1970s. Which is ironic because that bright spot of hope for a better future has been smothered under Alex Kurtzman. The best analogy to classic Trek's idealism today would be Japanese anime and Korean Dramas. Ironic as anime studios like Tohe cut their teeth in animation during the 1970s and 80s by being the subcontractors for American productions like Dungeons and Dragons the cartoon series.

[@Astolfo2001]

Mindblown

[@George-um2rt]

heh... and some people say that the human race is worth saving. That's got to be the greatest joke of all jokes. Makes you wonder, did we ever have peace that lasted a century? or did we ever have peace at all.

[@alternativejk90]

Animators, Musicians, Film Makers, Creatives, this is the decade to make something incredible! No Political Agendas just straight up great stories!

[@Michelle-sl9gj]

I just love how this channel ends with a message of hope!

[@ReaIHuman]

The worst part about our current Era is, we won't get any good movies out of it because of the woke crowd.

[@stanisawzokiewski3308]

after the 70s came the 80s. prepare for synthwave

[@ninjaartist1235]

Fun fact: “Embargo” spelled backwards is “O grab me!”

[@matityaloran9157]

16:42, well, for one thing, I (probably) wouldn’t be watching this video right now. (Unless you got some television network to green light a documentary program, I’m assuming that streaming doesn’t exist in this hypothetical world.)

[@M.Campbell-Sherwood]

ROFL The 70s were NOT when the "Troubles" began in Ireland. They were just when they'd been made public worldwide... The "Troubles" had and have been going on for CENTURIES, and I mean that quite literally. I would have to disagree with your assessment that the Last Picture Show is more depressing than China Town, considering China Town is based on a real event where 600 people d!3d in a surprise flood in the early 1900s... See Ask a Mortician 'The Massive LA Disaster You've Never Heard of'.

[@360lootgoon3]

Woah woah woah. You mean to tell me, there were strong female protagonists, in movies, in the 70’s?!?! ....🤯

[@davidford3115]

There were many, but the wokescolds in Hollyweird don't want to acknowledge them because it would mean they are talentless two-bit hacks who can't hold a candle to real female talent.

[@seanc7342]

For awhile people ask me why I shit on the '70s now I'm going to show them this video

[@JohnTaylor-fh4et]

Life is unfair, we've just created a more unfair system to go with it.

[@EricDaMAJ]

Yeah except Carter was (and is) a much more likable guy. He actually served in the Navy as a nuclear submarine captain (which tend to be so detail oriented some critics say that's why his presidency failed). Carter could actually complete full sentences in interviews. His press secretary wasn't either a lying mouthpiece or proof that LGBQT Black women can be as morally and intellectually vacuous as an empty suit white guy. Carter wasn't controlled by a bunch of nihilistic communists who hate the United States, its Constitution, and its people. If he had a Twitter account he wouldn't tweet garbage that would either enrage people (like Trump) or outright lie (like Biden).

[@timcombs2730]

I don’t think the Marvel Movie trash of today is reflective of the era of the Hollywood Renaissance. America film and television in the 1970s was overtly more adult and sophisticated.

[@ZemanTheMighty]

What bothers me about modern storytelling is that when movies are not gloomy or depressing they are just nostalgia cash ins, unoriginal reboots/remakes or a variation of something that’s been done before.

[@graveyardshift6691]

The 90's have actually made us forget that happy endings have their place too.

[@thomaskidd8027]

One small comment, overall the video was great. IVF isn't necessarily a good development and is pretty problematic ethically because often there are multiple human beings created for sake of conceiving one, and those extra children are either left frozen or discarded. Even if only one child is made and the implantation is successful, in the same way that children have a right to a loving mother and father (though that's not often honored in todays world) children also have the right to be conceived in the womb and not in the cold confines of a lab. Children are not a right, not something to be commodified, and once they're created they have rights themselves. Scientifically speaking, life starts at conception, therefore rights start at conception as well.

[@gaminikokawalage7124]

I'm guessing you're pro life?

[@davidford3115]

Have you actually read the Federal statues concerning that? Three parent child procedures are unlawful in the US due to statutes like the Hyde Amendment as well as FDA bans. Only in Europe and Asia will you find such procedures. And incidentally, you would throw out the good just because you dislike one aspect that is NOT practiced in the US. Quite myopic of you.

[@jackalltrades8746]

Movie recognized "Network" Drama/Satire. Veteran news anchorman Howard Beale went on a television rant. Quote "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore 1976

[@nigelbagguley7606]

Unfortunately, today's distopian/ conspiracy movies lack a score on a par with those created by Lalo Schifrin

[@garretlevi]

It's interesting that the good things that came after the hard times of the 70s are the same things that people are currently nostalgic about today.

[@baneofbanes]

Boom and bust cycles.

[@JacobAnawalt]

Don't some blame a good portion of the psychotic crime on leaded gasoline at the time? I wonder if there are similar widespread chemically induced mass-psychosis now, or is it just stories and bad ideas that are creating so much anger and depression?

[@SirKenchalot]

Movies are not made today by 'artists' but studios and require the dogmatic message of the age to enthuse what you still seem to see as art.

[@davidford3115]

You are correct. the movies today follow the same "logic" that media and movies in the Soviet Union under Stalin followed.

[@Martorfunk]

I think you are a bit wrong about the comparison about the way media depicts our reality lately, just in one little detail. The media in those times when depicting characters that weren't morally good or that committed errors were never depicted as good individuals, heroes or role models for society. Meanwhile right now every morally grey and selfish character is depicted as good and correct, even sometimes as role models just like with Wanda in Wanda & Vision which constantly treats her as the hero despite all the horrible things she does, god they even say she sacrificed a lot, and you can't see that in the way some people justify her.

[@vasglorious]

Thanks for the friendly optimism of the idea things will be better again. Great video.

[@Ultrox007]

"Lots of good things are happening today too, regardless of what goes wrong." I mean... Can you name any examples? Smartphones are glorified tracking devices. Non-Linux Computers haven't allowed users to properly _use_ them since 2012. Visual mediums like TV and Film is all but obsolete in the wake of gaming - which has been constantly whittled away at by the trifecta of mega-corps, censorship, and governments. And this is only addressing the 'good' innovations you named yourself and how none of them are actually that good. Not to sound so depressed about it, but I'm a nerd re-living the satanic panic, just now instead of my games being "demonic" and evil. They're "problematic" and evil. It just kinda sucks, and what few escapes I have still can't keep them out.

[@technodestination4763]

Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. Michael Hopf Hindus are always right as Life and Universe itself is just a cycle not a journey to an end....Only some incredible humans are able to break free from the cycle

[@davidford3115]

A lot of Eastern religions focus more on cyclical nature rather than linear perception of time. Perhaps they are onto something. Incidentally, many of the survivors of Jonestown turned to Eastern religion. Just something to think about.

[@yorkshire_tea_innit8097]

If media is telling you that the world is full of machovelion characters, it becomes true.

[@christophereschbacher424]

Do not forget planet of the apes. Those 5 movies perfectly show the problems in the late 60s and early 70s and has the world end twice. the second time no one on earth is alive.

[@cleotasberkley9048]

You how else we know the 70s are back? Terry cloth shirts.

[@ameryaser3987]

Love the channel but just wanted to say partway through the video that you made the connection to aliens corporate policy to irl government policy and i feel like that's kinda weird without more emphasis on trying to explain their similarities in your opinion. Now gonna continue the video which is an overall good video.

[@nanivt1902]

He always does this in his videos and in past (2 years ago) he didn't use this propaganda technique. I wonder what changed...

[@derptothemaxclearly]

So that means a decade of republican's is just around the corner!

[@naughtyskywalker9292]

Can we just go back to the time in combating communism and corruption.

[@nicholasnarcowich9163]

Ya, the 70's were a lot of things, my first job in '73, that created a career until 2003 - 30 years - then into service. & I still serve, today with FedEx Ground. I keep going because I make people happy, Be Happy with service, let people be happy with what you do, Sounds like there are a lot of ungrateful people in The States, but, really, are there? Ask... do you have a home to sleep in & you feel safe there? In Ukraine, you don't. When you wake up, are you sake & have a meal ready for you? Maybe, in Ukraine, you don't. In The U.S. of A. ALL Americans should be grateful for what you do have, not angry for what you don't have. Thank God for what we do have.

[@know-nothingmillennial3043]

I would argue that this is why Star Wars was such a smash hit. A combination of nostalgia and hope (a new hope) was really what people were looking for as a relief from all those pessimistic takes that people were tired of being over inflated in all that other stuff.

[@goofyroofy]

I think most of us that went through the 70s the first time, at least economically,didnt want to do it again....i'll take the young Cybil Sheppard,Muscle Cars & pre disco music...just don't ban my lawn darts this time, K XD

[@matityaloran9157]

Interesting. Would you say that movies like the original Star Wars (1977) and the first Star Trek movie (1979) were outliers? Since they didn’t have a nihilistic outlook despite being from the 1970s.

[@michaelvandeginste3497]

I'd say that the fact that they were released late in the decade signified the beginning of a new outlook.

[@matityaloran9157]

@@michaelvandeginste3497 Maybe. That could be it.

[@evancombs5159]

Potentially yes, I've watched several documentaries about Star wars saying as much about it. Those documentaries are nearly 20 years old now.

[@bitingapotato3277]

@@michaelvandeginste3497 ...a...new hope, you might say? Sorry, couldn't resist.

[@michaelvandeginste3497]

@@bitingapotato3277 boom tsss!

[@Croz89]

I guess the question we have now is, are we near the end of the dark times, or at the beginning?

[@Code7Unltd]

Knowing the status of film, dark times end with the rise of deviants in film. Back in the 70s, the deviants in film were auteurs looking to make movies for the grindhouse circuits to tour. If we fast-forward to now, deviants in film appear to be crowdfunded filmmakers, film importers and people rejected from the industry, barring the obvious niche/cult film studios like Entertainment Studios or AMC Networks (AMC is mainstream, but there has been many purchases of niche studios by them lately).

[@davidford3115]

@@Code7Unltd Don't forget that Anime and Asian Dramas today have become very similar, upsetting the elites in American's entertainment "industry".

[@somethingidk786]

Yes, the beginning of the end of the world

[@nuyabuisness7526]

Personally I know we are going through another dark time. Weak leaders, political strife, and economic problems. However I think that we may be on the cusp of a new golden age of innovation. We can be going back to space, reaching new technological developments, shaking off the extinction burst of toxic ideas that have been festering for decades. I have to have hope for tomorrow otherwise, what is the point of waiting for it?

[@davidford3115]

Fourth Turning of the Strauss-Howe generational theory. Good times make weak men, weak men create hard times. Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times.

[@deathsquadron3311]

but this time we are going to mix the 50s with the optimism of the 80s roe v wade overturned, the dream of family life from the 50s, and more being realized and nostalgia from that time periods being popular

[@callmeej8399]

I’m actually quite a pessimist I believe we’re heading to a technological nihilist nightmare

[@goldenhorse4823]

Nfts, abortions are banned, scamming, don't say gay bill. We are quite literally growing old toxic ideas

[@liamshaughnessy6246]

People says history doesn’t repeat 🔁 itself lol 😂!