How the 1980s Engineered the Collapse of the Working Class | The Walrus
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The world is in uncharted territory. These are troubled times. Disorienting times. Frightening times. Blame it on the fire tornados or the COVID-19 pandemic or the data-driven AI that is poisoning the well of human conversation.
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Nostalgia for the 1980s is everywhere... It is Hawkins, Indiana, in the Netflix hit Stranger Things - a landscape of well-stocked shopping malls, morning paper routes, and social cohesion.
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Airbrushed with '80s nostalgia is the real Upside Down that confronted people - the political and corporate counterrevolution that killed the American dream.
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I am looking for clues. I want to know how that Upside Down created the dystopian world confronting us today.
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#nostalgia #1980s #societal-disruption #political-commentary #cultural-reflection
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