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