What is an ABBA ? A walk down memory lane, where we have been and where are we going?

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Well, an ABBA isn't a place or a thing, it is a "person" in regards to the name of a pop-rock group.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the 70's pop rock group, "ABBA" this post is for you.

If you are an avid movie fan you may already know that the movie, "Mama Mia", was based on the music of ABBA.

Their greatest hits album is titled "ABBA Gold". The King has been watching the you tube video of Dancing Queen.

The video portrays the "innocence" of the times by comparison to now. However, the innocence of the 1950's had evolved after the JFK assassination and the Vietnam war of the 60's-70's.

I believe the largest scandal of the 1970's was here comes the streak, a song by Ray Stevens. If the King remembers correctly the song was released around or before the Indianapolis 500". The streaker on the track made bigger headlines than the race that year.

The 70's decade was also about long hair, a carryover from the 1960's, Love and Peace movement morphing into blue jean bellbottoms and polyester suits. It was also during the final withdrawal of US forces from Vietnam. The Love and Peace movement also introduced recreational drugs, Tim Leary and CIA, "conspiracy theories". Many believed that Mr. Leary was a CIA operative, was given funds to research LSD to publish his results and degenerate the youth.

Drugs became a part of the mainstream "Music" culture. Drugs, long hair, free sex and a general disregard for the values of the 1950's was a turning point in "American" culture. It was also a movement of separating families and family values. You were either with the "in crowd" or considered "Square".

It was also a decade of warming up to the Cold War with Russian and the imminent threat of MAD. Mutual Agreed Upon Destruction or all out Nuclear War. The 1970' also included popular TV shows such as, "All In The Family". "Meathead", played by Rob Reiner who was the son in law of "Archie", played by Carrol O'Conner. The show was one of the first politically motivated shows that the King was aware of. It was a battle of value, conservative vs. liberal.

For the King, it is sometimes difficult to comprehend the changes in over 50 years. In the 70's the internet and/or personal computer was an idea not invented yet. We had punch cards and IBM mainframe computers. Dial up, hard line phones and paper/pencils. Typing was considered a skill for women/secretaries and to take a "Home Economics" course in High School was a huge NO, NO if you wanted to maintain a "Macho" image. Currently if you are unable to type you are......???? Non-functioning?

The latest and greatest typing machine was the IBM Selectric and that was the machine to have! The envy of the classroom, because the school didn't have any.

How far have we evolved, if any, in the last 50 plus years? Currently we are talking about cloning, AI, MRNA, weather modification, GMO's, algorithms, etc., etc. Yet still commuting in vehicles that haven't evolved in 100 plus years which has placed the world under the "Petro-Chemical spell. These industries, governments and techno-bureaucrats are gaining in their worldwide "Totalitarian" control over populations of Loving and Peaceful people.

We are being manipulated and controlled by the very machines that didn't exist 50 plus years ago. Movie concepts such as "The Terminator and The Matrix" are a reality. Books, who reads those anymore, such as George Orwell's "1984" along with the movies are the current reality.

No more is it the big three, CBS, NBC and ABC that manipulate populations. We have computer algorithms that guide and channel us into what our "preferences" are vs. the ability to expose ourselves to alternate modes of thinking. In fact a new avenue of study has become into our reality. The study of ignorance. Known as "Agnotology" See the hyperlink for the book, "Agnotology, Making and Unmaking of Ignorance."

https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=11232



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All hail "King Neptune" Ruler of the Seas. Thank you so much for that much-needed tour down memory lane. Being in my 50s I am definitely a child of the 70s Detroit, then a Teen in the 80s Suburbs & Marine Corps.
If you are a young person 20 to 40 years of age I am really impressed. IT is very difficult writing about a period you did not live :-)

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@chris.topher The King thanks thee for dropping by! Art thou a wizard? Based upon your photo?

The King travels thru time while age is only a figment of the imagination.

The Kingdom sends..............

Blessings in Love, Peace and Prosperity!

and a bit of..........

!BEER

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It is an honor and a privilege to have caught the King's attention.
I am but a humble mage that practices from the Western School of Hermetics.
How may I serve the King this day?

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@chris.topher The King has asked his royal researcher to look into this school. The Kingdom sends blessings in Love, Peace and Prosperity!

!ALIVE

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