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...strange world. Conservative critics (Robert Bork, for example) have said that it originated in the Big Bang of the '60s. But in a new book called "HOW WE GOT HERE - The 70s: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life (For Better or Worse)" (Basic Books, 418 pages, $25), David Frum offers a more interesting and more nuanced thesis...
...Popular memory recalls the '70s as the bummed-out aftermath of the '60s, as if the '60s were the real circus. Frum, however, sees the '70s as the true transformation, the turning point when old America ended and new America, such as it is, began...
...Frum seems to hate the '70s, but at the same time, to regard the decade as a necessary social shaking-out. He says the decade "left behind a country that was more dynamic, more competitive, more tolerant, less deferential, less self-confident, less united, more socially equal, less economically equal, more expressive, more risk-averse, more sexual, less literate, less polite, less reticent...
...True. But I think Frum may not be sufficiently aware of just how much has been lost in the shaking-out. In a way, the John McCain phenomenon registers a nostalgia for discarded virtues (duty, honor, endurance) - for an authenticity that the '70s did their idiot best to destroy...
...Black Superman Ill Frum Tha Soul...