I've seen that theory on boingboing before, but... I guess I don't get it. What is the benefit of having a "lost decade" to explain something (aside from "cultural trauma"/forgetting)... All the retro/80s synth stuff is obviously explained by the fact that the 80s were full of that kinda thing. So, I guess I'm not sure... Like if they posited some crazy 5 year very different cultural thing then I'd get it, but as it is, it looks like the 80s to me.
Maybe that's the point? Maybe the 80s were a collective trauma, and this is a slight dig towards the Reagan Era?
Maybe Reagan had a pre-First Term in the lost decade (though doesn't he say it's really just 5 years in his chronology, despite the name?)
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Date: 2013-01-16 02:36 pm (UTC)Maybe that's the point? Maybe the 80s were a collective trauma, and this is a slight dig towards the Reagan Era?
Maybe Reagan had a pre-First Term in the lost decade (though doesn't he say it's really just 5 years in his chronology, despite the name?)