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As someone who was around in the 1970s, delusional thinking, greed, and shortsightedness in pursuit of ephemera like money and status were a thing then too, if
by tim333 2y ago
As someone who was around in the 1970s, delusional thinking, greed, and shortsightedness in pursuit of ephemera like money and status were a thing then too, if anything a bit worse.
In fact Money, Money, Money was recorded in 1976 just before the Voyager launch. (https://youtu.be/ETxmCCsMoD0 https://youtu.be/ETxmCCsMoD0)
- mixmastamyk 2y agoA great piece on the time around watergate: https://longreads.com/2018/11/20/the-second-half-of-watergate-was-bigger-worse-and-forgotten-by-the-public/ https://longreads.com/2018/11/20/the-second-half-of-watergat... Corruption was in full swing and easier to hide. Dale Carnegie recently reminded me of the Teapot dome scandal, and Gordon Gekko was in the 80s.