What are the most significant changes and megatrends that have occurred in the U.S. since the mid-1970s?
If you imagine someone time traveling between the eras, what would strike them? What was not tolerated then but is quite normal and accepted today? Conversely, what did people then do without comment that today could get you arrested or thrown out?
So many such impressions are subjective, but a few obvious broad themes do emerge. Together, they constitute a remarkable revolution in the most basic assumptions of life - of family and intimate relationships, of work and residence, of thinking and speaking, of getting and spending.
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