We and the Me era

Title: We and the Me era

Writer: Jouke Turpijn

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789028452565

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Description:

A compelling and contemporary cultural history about the Netherlands from 1980 to our corona time.

On the threshold of 1980, The Me-era appeared as a Christmas special of the famous magazine Haagse Post. The text hit like a bomb. Author John Jansen van Galen described how the Netherlands had become 'a prosperous villa village' in those years, where the inhabitants were mainly concerned with themselves and not with society. Everyone - readers, politicians, artists, advertisers, clergy, scientists, journalists - recognized something in the image that Jansen van Galen sketched. And so the Me-era became a winged concept for a society that had lost its way.

The Me-Age saw the light of day in a confusing time. The dream that the prosperity growth of the post-war reconstruction would last forever, burst in the second half of the seventies. Unemployment rose, the economy collapsed, a new international arms race was in the making, the big cities were dilapidated, large groups of Dutch people turned away from society in disappointment, and politics had no idea how to solve all that. And now, more than forty years later, the confusion is at least as great: the corona pandemic, the climate apocalypse, the war in Ukraine, polarization and the shaky participation society. Once again, the coherence of our society and the place of the individual in it are up for discussion.

Against the background of these historical developments, Jouke Turpijn and John Jansen van Galen take the winged concept to task in We and the I-era. Did the I-era ever actually pass? Who are and were we in the I-era? And what ultimately remains of it?