The past may be a different country, but to imagine that it was always a more rigid, more stratified, more conservative one is to play right into the hands of the reactionaries who are doing their best to return our present to some Stepford pastiche of pop culture as false as the Production Code: it is not our business to help them whitewash and straighten the gains of previous generations by agreeing that racism and sexism carried the good old days without question, that any representation to the contrary is anachronistic politics or wishful thinking, and that the loss of human rights will be a reversion to status quo, not a perversion of it.

Yes, this. This is a true point, and an important one. I've found myself wanting to shout your whole opening paragraph at people lately.

Also, this review was itself sufficient to make me long for a good tiki drink! :)