I randomly watched the pilot of the Carol Burnett show. The opening sketch is Cafe Argentine based on the premise of an Argentinian restaurant run by Nazis who speak German, serve German food, etc. It’s very funny, but it hit me that it was also news back then.
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This was just a few years after Adolf Eochmann had been captured in Argentina, and presumably Nazi hunting was l9ve in the news.
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I wonder if they’ll eventually put all news broadcasts online. You could kinda live in sat 1972 by watching an episode a day. It might turn into a weird subculture.
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I think what's under-appreciated is you have to be open to the idea that the past was a different country, that people didn't just have funny clothes but also had different mental furniture and different values. 1/
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This is an astonishing rare skill. (vide not just the barrage of anachronistic "historical" fiction and TV/movies; but also the utterly tone-deaf analyses of the past we see when politically motivated historians get to work). 2/
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Heinlein was already talking about this in the 1980s. (And I always tell my wife she grew up in the 1930s, not watching TV and listening to old-time radio broadcasts with her family on Sunday nights.)
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I once considered modernity superior for many reasons like medicine, tech and civil society. As if somehow those lives were inherently and essentially bound by limitations we are largely free from. It's an ideologically driven fallacy borne of a need to sustain our tragic hubris
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