The Surrealistic nature of the 1960s to 1970s

The most useful term in regard to the 1960s was they were surrealistic.

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   2. Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality."

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Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality."

‎André Breton - ‎Max Ernst - ‎Surrealist cinema - ‎Giorgio de Chirico

 So, I'm using it in a context where one often could not tell for sure the difference

between reality and a dream state.

From Alan Shepard to Neil Armstrong landing on the moon to President Kennedy being 

elected to the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Birth Control pill becoming legal

in 1960 to the Viet Nam War to Marijuana and LSD to College Demonstrations

to people living together outside of marriage to people having babies in a new cultural

context without being married or maybe getting married later if they felt like it.

The surrealistic nature of all this basically tore a new one for the average person

in the western world.

So, from President Kennedy being elected in 1959 in the Fall and being 

installed in office in January 1960 it might as well have been King Arthur

and Guinivere taking their place as President and First Lady.

Television changed our world and not only here in the U.S. it changed

the whole world in a similar way that the Internet is changing the world now.

Before that everyone was very individualistic in a very rugged way.

People were killed for honor infractions a lot more before television

civilized us by helping us understand each other better, especially 

between the races and different ethnic groups.

So, Surrealistic is an apt term for the 1960s until the 1970s.

I think reality started to set in around 1973 when the Arab Oil Embargo

by Opec stole away the wealth of the Average American which has 

diminished ever since from then in terms of actual or real buying power.

We went from 1 17 year old White man being able to easily support

5 people including a wife, himself and 3 children, to today when

a 17 year old mostly cannot even feed himself even if he lived at home

or even get a part time job unless he is working for a relative.

So, I would say 1973 was the end of surrealism for Americans in general.