Why? What happened? Care to share? Don’t mean to pry, just curious...
Nixon was going down in flames (he resigned in the summer of 1974), gas prices were rising, there was a recession, the adults seemed to be on edge (I was a college freshman for the first half of 1974, and a sophomore for the second half). The mid-east was in turmoil, everything seemed to be going downhill.
On a personal level, I was doing badly in college. My girlfriend left me and I was devastated. "No colors anymore I want them to turn black."