Date: 1971
Release: FLYING DUTCHMAN
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When Richard Nixon became president in 1968, the country was ripping itself apart culturally, politically, racially, generationally. Every aspect of American society was under transformation; the rules and relationships were being rewritten. So with the nation in chaos, Nixon turned his attention abroad and left domestic issues to his administration. Seeking to disempower and discredit the two most politically active, outspoken groups of Americans – blacks and young people – Nixon’s ambitious aides stepped up the criminalization of drugs, turning the law and its enforcers violently against the winds of change. There was one drug, however, that escaped attack: television, opiate of the masses. As the Sixties became the Seventies, the hippie flower wilted, and poverty, racism, violence, and drug addiction were institutionalized, millions of Americans plugged into the alpha beam of primetime TV and drifted off, high as a lost balloon, untethered from reality.
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