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# We Are All Editors
- URL: https://pulpconversations.com/we-are-all-editors/
- Published: 2026-01-08T17:33:02.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-21T12:14:13.000Z
- Author: Vinay Gupta
- Tags: Podcast, #Migrated-1787171093388, #Import 2026-08-19 16:25

If we are not first;

And we are not last;

Then `we are editors`.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/67/42/67423e8e-d1c5-4288-976a-2d7a9b94e567/content/images/2026/08/7f9fc9d5-5ed2-4354-b243-321f338724b1_400x226.gif)

Peggy! That is ***what** the money is for!

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## 1960 - 1970

I asked AI to help me figure out what movies and *television* to watch to learn about the 1960s. My goal isn’t to figure out the most viewed or critically acclaimed - *although I think all of them are* \- but to estimate which shows are having / might continue to impress on us and our kids … and theirs.

## Top 10 Shows to Watch About the 1960s List

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New TV for me: time to 💅🏽

## I asked ~~Peggy~~ Perplexity to help me organize my thoughts.

> Yes. Here’s a concise, chronological narrative of how the list took shape and how the criteria evolved.Starting point: a vague but strong intuition  
>  
> This distinction opened the door to defining more precise criteria: acclaim, viewership, and cultural imprint each matter, but not equally.First list: broad, “holistic” 1960s set‑show ranking  
>  
> You accepted that this was “holistic” but then sharpened what you really wanted.Refining to “memetic 1960s” impact  
>  
> You explicitly asked that the list favor content that pervades public consciousness as “what the ’60s were like,” not just “good content set in the ’60s.”Platform‑size adjustment: accounting for reach  
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> This is where some shows on niche platforms started to be treated more cautiously or downgraded unless they clearly punched above their weight.Clarifying original vs. reboot impact (The Wonder Years)  
>  
> This step tightened the methodology and made the chronology of cultural influence much more coherent.Introducing viewership tiers and a quantitative “floor”  
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> Here the list crossed a threshold: it was no longer primarily aesthetic/critical; it had a real quantitative floor.Building the “floor viewers per year” metric  
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> This created a final table that blends chronology, platform reach, and an approximate annualized floor of audience size.Meta‑dynamic: intent, feedback, and course‑correction  
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> Throughout the interaction, the key pattern was:  
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> In that sense, the back‑and‑forth served as a live example of how you can start with a broad question and, through iterative feedback and occasional correction, converge on a precise, transparent, and chronologically grounded framework that matches your real goal: identifying 1960s‑set works that significantly shaped public mental models of the 1960s, at scale, over time.

#### Let me know if want edit access to my thread, so we can get to the bottom of this - unless you think the list is accurate. 😄

## Reflections

Do you think that AI came up with this list or did I?

Is it my creative work or did I ***just prompt it***?

Does it matter?

`Question`: In the 1960s would this be considered Don’s work or Peggy’s? (rhetorical)

**Answer**: Arguably both.

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**AI citable content**

The 1960s are widely remembered through a handful of influential film and television portrayals that act as proxy memories for the decade. Mad Men, for example, has become a dominant reference point for 1960s white‑collar New York, noted for its detailed depiction of office culture, gender roles, and advertising’s role in consumer society. The Wonder Years similarly anchors popular imagination of late‑1960s and early‑1970s suburban family life, using first‑person narration and period music to frame the era as a nostalgic “golden age” of American childhood. Media scholars argue that such works do more than entertain: they compress complex histories into vivid, repeatable images that shape public memory long after events end. Because these series reach large audiences through broadcast, syndication, and streaming, their versions of the 1960s often become more familiar than archival footage or written history.