JFK was just been inaugurated as president, Patrice Lumumba is assassinated the Berlin Wall is built, Elvis returns, Motown is founded, and the Cold War is in full-swing but what's going on in the Awakened world? Mage Developer Satyros Phil Brucato walks through ideas in using the 1960s as a chronicle setting, how it's informed by what came before, and how it sets the stage for our modern Ascension War.
References:
- The Avengers - British espionage TV show
- Get Smart - American spy parody
- James Bond - British secret agent movie series based on books by Ian Flemming
- Gojira - 1954 kaiju film introducing Godzilla
- The Warmth of Other Suns - Book about the internal Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
- Sun Ra - American composer and experimental musician with a cosmic philosophy
- Parliament-Funkadelic - American funk collective headed by George Clinton
- Baader-Meinhof Group - Far left German militant organization about which numerous films were made
- Velvet Underground - American rock band headed by Lou Reed
- The Drowned World - J.G. Ballard book set in an earth rendered largely uninhabitable
- Slaughterhouse-Five - Book by Kurt Vonnegut
- Music: A Subversive History - 2019 book on the cultural importance of music
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - Tarantino film set in 1969 LA
- The Prisoner - British avante garde science fiction film
- The Doors (movie) - Film about the music group the Doors through the 60s and 70s
- Malcolm X (movie) - Documentary based on Malcolm X's autobiography
- Standing in the Shadows of Motown - Documentary on the story of the Funk Brothers
Satyros
- Valhalla with a Twist of Lethe - Satyros' book of short fiction
- Satyros Patreon
- Mage Made Easy - Satyros' guide to simplifying M20