What did you like the most about the '70s?

Answer 1

MUSIC

Yes, Rush, Led Zeppelin, King Crimson, Moody Blues, etc etc. How could you not love it?

Answer 2

Nothing. It was a time of terrible stress in the country during the first half of the decade due to the Vietnam War. It was a period when drug usage became mainstream while losing the aura of "peace and happiness" in favor of hardness and decay. It was the heyday of liberal policies that ultimately lead to the society we now have of pathological 12 year old killers, a virtual collapse of our educational system, and a judicial system that is completely out of touch with the reality of the victims of crime. It was a decade of changes in the popular music from a explosive and creative era to one of silliness and stagnation. It was a time of sexual exploration that all too often ended in sexual exploitation. It was the real beginning of feminism which immediately degenerated into a small elitist group of well educated childless white women in denial of their own biological being and hateful of the happiness that most people had.

Was there anything good about the 70s? Well, gas was still cheap. No one had every heard of the term "homeless" because, outside of a few places like New York City, the epidemic of wandering mentally ill and lazy bums had not yet begin. The country was still relatively open and it was possible to see large cultural differences between different regions instead of the fast food big box homogenization that we now have. Most people were in fairly good shape as opposed to all the obesity that we now see. The world was certainly a safer place, at least for Americans.

Answer 3

I liked the music the most about the 70s. Loved, and still love, disco, and the discotheque where I went, After Dark in Boca Raton, where I watched all the beautiful people, enjoyed the glitz and grander, the show bands, and my special friends there. It was such a happy time in the latter 70s, after the trauma of Vietnam and primness of the Carter administration. It was an expansive time for society and of hair. I met my second wife at that disco.

Answer 4

Music

Answer 5

I drank my way through most of them and partied and danced and drank and did things I shouldn't have done. Then I rededicated my life to God and began a good life!This is a poem I wrote in the fall of 1970. HERE I SIT FREAKED OUT ON A BUMMER,DROPPED SOME ACID TO GET STARTED ON A TRIP, THROUGH DIMENSIONS OF COLOR WITH FATHER TIME AS MY COMPAINION I VENTURE THE KNOWNS AND UNKNOWNS OF MYSELF AND OTHERS, ONLY TO REALIZE LIFE WILL GO ON IN FULL MANNER AS IN PAST.Now I didn't say I was a poet , just wrote it. I didn't do acid but witnessed others within it's grip. I hope others do not have to venture anywhere to find that they need God to guide them.I am changed and happy! OH YEA! I loved the clothes.Dresses could be hip-hi or ankle length and of every kind of material, nothing was looked down on because it was cool to do your" thang" and most music and the poetry. We also recieved permission to wear pants to work and I worked in an office in downtown Dallas! We had to wear pantsuits and not a shirt and pants. I had just grad in 70 and we hadn't been able to wear pants for the last 12 yrs and yes it was like that in most public schools. Can you imagine what a fuss our mini and macro skirts caused? (macro was full length and dangerous for stairways! he he and is what we would put on when sent home for a too short mini skirt!)

Answer 6

It was the Me Decade -- so I guess the only answer to that question is . . . Me!

I certainly do not miss the music (neither Disco nor Punk), the war in Vietnam, Nixon, Agnew, clothing styles nor hair styles.

But I liked a lot of the stuff I learned in college and miss the wide eyed optimism.

Answer 7

Real Punk Rock!

Answer 8

Not the music!

Answer 9

There was still Rock music then.

Answer 10

I was young and just starting my life as an adult, and i still had dreams, and thought anything was possible, then.........I grew up...:(