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2023-12-19 11:07:19
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Space Hobo on Nostr: npub1psdfx…99sr7 npub18yl52…0pegw The whole "Turn on, tune in, drop out" phase of ...

The whole "Turn on, tune in, drop out" phase of youth culture from the Rebel Without A Cause era up through Punk all make a lot of sense in the context of the Cold War.

"End of the world's here: either you fuck off and start a commune, or you just fuck off and party hard with whatever you've got left."

I was in the US, so we had The Day After. This was the film that famously appeared in Ronald Reagan's diary, showing the precise moment he turned from "We can win a nuclear war, easy!" to "Deterrence and prevention of launch is the goal.":

https://www.reaganfoundation.org/ronald-reagan/white-house-diaries/diary-entry-10101983/
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