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Authors like Brand and Toffler understood the rise of what today we call "libertarianism," with its cross-pollination between cultural trends ("do-it-yourself" rock and roll, homebuilding, computer building, etc., symbolized by the Whole Earth Catalog, the Sex Pistols, and the Apple II) and economic trends (the rise of the entrepreneur as hero, the "brand of me," and ever-lowering barriers to the flow of capital from market to market).
Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren chronicles his wild '70s life, focusing on Sid Vicious' 1978 arrest for his girlfriend's murder.
The Sex Pistols, of course, are incomprehensible without a glance at the two-track uniformity of mid-to-late 1970s music: lugubrious, 11-minute-long navel-gazing guitar dirges by the Eagles and Jackson Browne on one hand; ad jingles like "Undercover Angel" and "Heartbeat--It's a Love Beat" on the other.
After all, the title of the show perfectly fits the objects Harnett and Peto assembled: dollar bills, snapshots of loved ones, jewel-studded pistols.
Did all of the music, personalities, and ideas that first captivated me--the Sex Pistols, Grandmaster Flash, Public Enemy--do nothing but recycle Miller's paradigms?