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In Reply to: No, it would not, because you have an attitude problem that has lasted more than 4 hours posted by John Marks on October 11, 2014 at 09:34:26:
JM,
It is an easy call to agree that Playboy played a not insignificant role in shaping the aspirational ethos of post WWII, white middle class males during the 1950s.
I specifically refer to the generation of white middle class,'Baby-Boomer kids who came of age in the early 1960s to the mid 1970s.
I would suggest that the Playboy aspirational life style ethos and view of the world was, in any practical sense, absent, if not anathema, to the life style of the aforementioned kids. They were, in fact, the adolescents and young adults who were in active revolt against their parents and who formed the core soldiers of the political and cultural struggles of those times. I remember the struggles of those times quite well. Music propelled the struggle. We bought audio equipment. Playboy was as dead as the proverbial door nail, just, as we thought, was our parents way of life; the former was a solid truth; the latter, well, we learned a lot about ourselves and attempted to pick and choose among the bones of what we rejected and arrived at our middle age a wiser lot.
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Follow Ups
- RE: No, it would not, because you have an attitude problem that has lasted more than 4 hours - lord addleford 13:01:14 10/11/14 (4)
- RE: Baby Boomer kids of the 60s and 70s... - genungo 08:34:42 10/12/14 (0)
- Was that remark really necessary? - M-dB 04:44:00 10/12/14 (0)
- The hippies and revolutionaries got far more media attention than their numbers or importance merited - John Marks 14:48:50 10/11/14 (1)
- The best-selling Playboy edition was the November 1972 edition, which sold 7,161,561 copies. - John Marks 14:53:34 10/11/14 (0)
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