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Mad Men I was rewatching an old show from my childhood on Hulu recently. UFO was a cheesy sci fi show from England. First released in 1970 UFO, was set in the future, a top secret agency battling aliens that were coming to earth and endangering our way of life, in a very Cold War kind of way. In one episode the commander of SHADO visits Moon Base Alpha and is greeted by the officer in command, a woman. I thought how progressive for 1970, even though Star Trek had already done it. The commander of SHADO promptly asks her to get him a cup of coffee. Looking back this seems kind of funny and I can’t help but wonder what he’d get if he asked a woman officer to get him coffee today. Lap coffee I imagine. Just like UFO, Mad Men is a show with fictional characters in fictional situations and not a history lesson. We can’t help but perceive things through my own experiences, and the 60s can only be reimagined through the filter of experiences that have happened since then. The only way to have an untainted view of the 60s is to watch shows that were produced in the 60s. George Lois one of th...

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