I'm not as into it anymore (i'm sure i'll eventually relapse), but my former obsession with various swaths of semi-forgotten 20th century media i think is pretty well summed up in like, slowly noticing the edges of a brief cultural obsession with radar for a while. when it was new, there was so much excitement to explain it
and then you watch a b movie from the fifties one day and they're like "we can kill the giant ant with radar" and you're like "YES THEY WERE STILL INTO IT"
@heatherhorns i wonder how long it was between the 50s and when the average person would understand just how much that entire concept is nonsensical
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@Felthry The fifties, I think, was when people should have known better, which is why it'd be exciting to see some vestigial sign of that in that sort of "i'm scared about science because of recent and current traumas suggesting we're due for some atrocities" attitude
like, playing cultural forensics with just personal vibes from stuff
@heatherhorns yeah i would think people would know better by then too but apparently they didn't
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