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The seventies were the birth of instantly disposable modern popular culture.  I know most people would say that it was the sixties or even the fifties that invented modern pop culture — but I’m talking about the particular strain of pop culture that’s destined for nostalgia within five years.  The fifties and sixties gave us the pop culture base for which the seventies could expand.  Five years into the new century we already have a television show called “Remember The Nineties?”

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