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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Janus Manhattan's Children : conflicted children of Futurama '65 & Woodstock '69

It is easy to imagine that today's Boomers who still deny climate change and the sixth extinction (big shout out to most of the staff at Fox News !) going back, over and over, to enjoy the synthetic autarky fantasies of Futurama II at Flushing Meadows's worlds fair in its final summer of 1965.

Just as easy as it is to see today's Boomer Earth-friendly activists 'going back to the garden' (or wishing they could have) at Woodstock's world fair less than four years later.

Just as it is equally possible to imagine some conflicted Boomers attending both and loving both....

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