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There would be no 'Mad Men' - what would I watch on sunday night? :) Mad Men is more about an idealized, distant and long forgotten world, than it is about advertising or ad agencies, or an accurate historic record. The details might be accurate, but the choice of this particular story-line, at this order, with these particular characters, is more a reflection about the mind of the show author(s) more than anything. It's what all the authors of the series long for; a place where men looked good, got paid to do "creative" work, and had 99 "girl" problems. It's more about Today than yesteryear; the slightly more refined tastes of Porky's generation. In the future, your series of choice might be about a gang of environmental activists who are members of an ad-busting and "culture jamming" crew, with connections to the Cribs gang, the break-dance scene, and who just happen to be mad demo coders and phreakers. In other words, the popular art depicting today's world will be a caricature reflection of whatever surviving lore, confirmed by exhaustive records, since all of those things exist today, or existed until recently. Everyone born after 1980 might as well be referred to as "cyber-punk". |