Rising Hegemon
I saw a bit of 'American Graffiti' the other day, which was made in 1973 and then got essentially morphed into the rather execrable 'Happy Days' shortly thereafter.
When I was a kid those things seemed like some sort of kinescope of ancient history, even though they reflected a period less than 20 years earlier.
If a comparable movie came out now it would be set in about 1995.
The Clinton Era may as well be the Eisenhower Era now.
And considering where politics have gone, that also seems like ancient history.
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"American Graffiti" was made in 1973, about a graduating class in 1962, and it seemed nostalgic when it first came out (or so it seemed to me, as I grew up in those years and for short time, in the Valley).
So, if the interval is eleven years, a comparable film today would have the Gore-Bush election as a backdrop.
Which means that we have a generation approaching thirty years old whose introduction to adult life was the Supreme Court coup of 2000....
america, land of amnesia.
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