Can you tell me things about the70's and the 80's?
Anybody living in the Seventies surely can't. We've either been political prisoners (oh, those Stammheim days!) or were too stoned to remember.
The only ones who vividly remember the 70ies are those disco morons we used to beat up every Saturday night. They could show you their scars.
I have faint recollections of moon boots, Afros, women wearing curlers at the grocery store, green Army parkas (yes, I am guilty of that, too! :o), street protests against everything, flokati rugs, having only three channels on TV, wallpapers in a hideous mix of orange, brown & white.
And miraculously, we had faith in our political leaders. No kidding! Willy Brandt, Salvador Allende, Moshe Dayan were admirirable figures. I believe, that was because there were still differences noticeable between them.
While a former Nazi judge who had deserters executed served as governor of a federal state in Southern Germany and all the other Nazis ran the banks and businesses, we were grateful for every glimmer of hope and a better world. The crushing of the Spring of Prague and the coup in Chile inflicted serious wounds. Willy Brandt kneeling in Warsaw symbolized a higher morality not found in today's politicians.
Enough! Where's my sheep?
