Highpoint of 20th Century American Culture?

[Eddie Teach]

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.

I've seen them on TVLand and Nick at Nite. Meh.

I don't really care for sitcoms that much anymore anyway.

[Ideologue]

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.

I also meant Boomers and I hate those guys.

[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.

I also meant Boomers and I hate those guys.

My mother was a boomer, so shut your damn mouth.

[derspiess]

My family entirely skipped the Boomer generation.  Thank God.

[Neil]

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.

I'm sure you would have sucked it up and acted like a person.  That's what people did.

[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.

I'm sure you would have sucked it up and acted like a person.  That's what people did.

There was also a tendency to stick people suffering from mental illness in attics.

[Ideologue]

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.

I also meant Boomers and I hate those guys.

My mother was a boomer, so shut your damn mouth.

So is my dad.  He's great.  But so what?

[derspiess]

Anyway, the clear answer to the question is the 50s.  I'd love to have lived back then about as much as you types would like to send me back there.

[Razgovory]

What do you love about the 1950's? 

[garbon]

Anyway, the clear answer to the question is the 50s.  I'd love to have lived back then about as much as you types would like to send me back there.

I thought you lived there.

[CountDeMoney]

Anyway, I voted 80s.  Both MTV and Reagan's 300-ship Navy defeated the Soviet Union in between commercial breaks before The Day After and The Cosby Show.  It was the high point of Pax Americana.

[derspiess]

Anyway, the clear answer to the question is the 50s.  I'd love to have lived back then about as much as you types would like to send me back there.

I thought you lived there.

I do the best I can. 

Anyway, Seedy makes a compelling point about the 80s.  I remember a bit of the 70s, but outside of the Bid Red Machine and the Bicentennial there wasn't much there.  The 80s had it all, though.  If the question were "best decade to be in college" I'd vote for the 90s, but overall for the decades I've lived in, 80s is tops.

[Ideologue]

I feel like if I were born in 1960, I'd have a house, a wife, kids, no criminal record, and probably serious debt but that's a lateral move.

[CountDeMoney]

I feel like if I were born in 1970, I'd have a house, a wife, kids, and probably serious debt but that's a lateral move.

I was born in 1970, and I have none of that. 

[Ideologue]

I feel like if I were born in 1970, I'd have a house, a wife, kids, and probably serious debt but that's a lateral move.

I was born in 1970, and I have none of that. 

I meant 1960.  You know I edit.  We all know I edit.