“The Decadent, Catastrophic, and Revolutionary 1980s: A Look Back at America’s Political and Pop Culture Landscape”

The 1980s was a decadent, catastrophic, and revolutionary decade not only in the United States, but also in the rest of the world, with a wide variety of environmental, political, and pop culture events taking place. In America, it was the decade of Ronald Reagan, symbolized by his conservative course in domestic and foreign policy, which was destined to shape the future political destiny of the United States. There was no shortage of scandals, from an assassination attempt on the president to trading missiles with Iran to free three US citizens held hostage by a terrorist group in Lebanon.

Political instability and high crime rates in certain parts of the country served as a painful but fertile ground for creative processes. In Seattle, the birthplace of “Nirvana”, the number of crimes per 100,000 inhabitants in 1985 reached 11,452 cases per year – compared to 2015, when the number of crimes was 5,259 episodes.