Highpoint of 20th Century American Culture?

[Ideologue]

So for the first time the mass of the population having the ability to publish their wisdom on the internet counts for nothing ?

Didn't really take off till the 00s.  Sure, Something Awful and X-Entertainment were great, but you're going to hang your whole decade on Zack Parsons reviewing porno movies?  Alright, it's feasible.  (And now that I consider it, the apex of the first wave of pop culture sites may still have been in the oughts.)

[Razgovory]

Eh, we are still at the top of our game.

[garbon]

So for the first time the mass of the population having the ability to publish their wisdom on the internet counts for nothing ?

Didn't really take off till the 00s.  Sure, Something Awful and X-Entertainment were great, but you're going to hang your whole decade on Zack Parsons reviewing porno movies?  Alright, it's feasible.  (And now that I consider it, the apex of the first wave of pop culture sites may still have been in the oughts.)

I doled out a lot of wisdom in AOL chatrooms.

[Neil]

I agree with the Hippie from California.

Jaron?

[CountDeMoney]

I picked the 90s. Only really had the 80s and 90s available unless I wanted to celebrate American culture as sexist and racist.

I can appreciate that, what with you being a double minority with cheese.  Although I would've been able to get you into all those swinging Rat Pack parties of 1956-1964 by introducing you as Sammy Davis Jr.  All you'd have to do would be to call everyone "babe" while looking at them omnidirectionally like a tree chameleon.

[garbon]

I picked the 90s. Only really had the 80s and 90s available unless I wanted to celebrate American culture as sexist and racist.

I can appreciate that, what with you being a double minority with cheese.  Although I would've been able to get you into all those swinging Rat Pack parties of 1956-1964 by introducing you as Sammy Davis Jr.  All you'd have to do would be to call everyone "babe" while looking at them omnidirectionally like a tree chameleon.

And then denying what I really was. Sounds fabulous.

On the plus side, HIV/AIDS wasn't yet on the horizon.

[Neil]

And then denying what I really was. Sounds fabulous.

You'd probably have been better for it, you selfish fuck.

[garbon]

And then denying what I really was. Sounds fabulous.

You'd probably have been better for it, you selfish fuck.

Probably not. Instead of one small bout of depression, I probably would have suffered it my whole life. Particularly given the state of pharmaceuticals back then.

[CountDeMoney]

And then denying what I really was. Sounds fabulous.

You'd probably have been better for it, you selfish fuck.

Probably not. Instead of one small bout of depression, I probably would have suffered it my whole life. Particularly given the state of pharmaceuticals back then.

Oh, I don't know, Sammy seemed to do OK.

[garbon]

And then denying what I really was. Sounds fabulous.

You'd probably have been better for it, you selfish fuck.

Probably not. Instead of one small bout of depression, I probably would have suffered it my whole life. Particularly given the state of pharmaceuticals back then.

Oh, I don't know, Sammy seemed to do OK.

I can't sing and I don't think I can act...well professionally that is.

[Ideologue]

To be clear, when I said it was better in the 1960s how people related to one another, I did mean "white people."

[Eddie Teach]

90s. Partly for the reasons Brain described*, partly for television(which is still getting better and better as cable networks don't have to program for the lowest common denominator) and partly for Miramax.

*The best bands from the 70s and 80s were mostly British anyway.

[garbon]

To be clear, when I said it was better in the 1960s how people related to one another, I did mean "white people."

Clearly. After all, you are a Southerner.

[CountDeMoney]

partly for television(which is still getting better and better as cable networks don't have to program for the lowest common denominator)

That's because you missed the '70s, when television sitcom writing was intelligent, and intended for intelligent people.

[CountDeMoney]

To be clear, when I said it was better in the 1960s how people related to one another, I did mean "white people."

Clearly. After all, you are a Southerner.

Ahhhh, magnolias.