Me Decade
(US) The 1970s characterized by a rise of self-indulgence and narcissism in American society.
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(US) The 1970s characterized by a rise of self-indulgence and narcissism in American society.
The prevailing concept of the Seventies remains the idea of the “Me Decade”—an era of narcissism, selfishness, personal rather than political awareness. Pundits and historians portrayed the Me Decade as the antidote to or repudiation of …
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