… The power of the first Back to the Future (film) depended not just on an arbitrary 30-year period, that is, but on how radically America had changed across those decades: Marty’s adolescence (in the 1980s) and his parents’ courtship (in the 1950s) lay on opposite sides of (among many other things) rock ’n’ roll, civil rights, Vietnam, the sexual revolution, drug culture, the moon landing, feminism, the apocalyptic ’70s, and, finally, the conservative turn that made this magazine’s 30th anniversary a happy one.
Whereas if you remade Back to the Future now and sent Martina McFly back to ’85, you would have a lot of jokes about life without the iPhone, some shocking shoulder pads, and some sort of “comic” critique of Reagan-era unenlightenment on same-sex marriage. But you wouldn’t have the sense of visiting a past that’s actually another country. …
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Wandering Views 
Interesting essay on the dramatic cultural changes in the 1970s & ’80s — and current stagnation:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429348/national-review-back-future
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… The power of the first Back to the Future (film) depended not just on an arbitrary 30-year period, that is, but on how radically America had changed across those decades: Marty’s adolescence (in the 1980s) and his parents’ courtship (in the 1950s) lay on opposite sides of (among many other things) rock ’n’ roll, civil rights, Vietnam, the sexual revolution, drug culture, the moon landing, feminism, the apocalyptic ’70s, and, finally, the conservative turn that made this magazine’s 30th anniversary a happy one.
Whereas if you remade Back to the Future now and sent Martina McFly back to ’85, you would have a lot of jokes about life without the iPhone, some shocking shoulder pads, and some sort of “comic” critique of Reagan-era unenlightenment on same-sex marriage. But you wouldn’t have the sense of visiting a past that’s actually another country. …
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In case you need another taste of how sadistic ISIS is: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35260475
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