re: Did It All Start with the Hippies?

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Just search trans and tumblr.

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Right. Tumblr was the outreach media for trannyism.

Autistic nerds are faaaar more of a problem than Hippies.

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It started in earnest from the greatest generation WW2. What I mean is they went through some shite. And if you made it through and came back home it changed you.

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From a social standpoint, yes. After WWII the US became a superpower almost by default. Europe was in complete shambles because of WWII. Japan was too. And the rest of Asia, along with South America and Africa was mostly still agrarian.

The men and women who lived through WWII did not want to have to go through that again. And they certainly didn't want their children to do so. So they searched for peace and many made it a point to allow their children to live in that peace and tranquility. The good times, both socially and economically, led to the baby-boomers become more free spirited and "liberal" than their parents. That generation, in the 60's, changed America. So of the changes were good. Others weren't. By the time Vietnam rolled around no one wanted to fight another war. Particularly one that, to many, seemed mostly unnecessary. Nevertheless, the government forced them to do so. Except now the same patriotic fervor that existed in the 40's didn't exist in the late 60's. Vietnam had not blatantly attacked the US like the Japanese did at Pearl Harbor. Society became distrustful and disillusioned with the government.

Ultimately, we now live in the most peaceful and globally connected time in human history. But human beings, particularly westerners, NEED stimulation. So with really very little real problems around the world (relative to the constant warring, famine, etc, etc, that existed for most of human history) we have manifested what once were minor inconveniences into "major" issues mostly to create conflict to avoid being bored.

A good portion of the blame can be placed at the feet of Woodrow fricking Wilson. Add LBJ can take a huge chunk of the rest. frick them both to hell.

Yes, I’ve maintained this for years now.

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I think a lot of our more macro problems would self-correct if the population felt more shame about being a trashy loser and took more pride in their appearance, career, home, etc. Nothing matters to anyone anymore.

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Yes.

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eta: Also, we need to kill the word "happy" from our vocabulary. People aren't meant to be "happy".

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Ding ding ding.

But almost all of our modern movements are based on trying to analyze "happiness" and "good" outcomes as an equation that can be balanced across a variety of random, non-mathematical factors. Even the concept of equality, when it's used beyond it's actual meaning, is simply an approximation of tweakable outcomes that can be manipulated to get an equal level of happiness" It's ludicrous. And we chase it, over and over and over again.

Too busy destroying conservative families and communities of non-whites through policy and police instead of promoting American values. And still having too many individuals making the GOP uninviting for people who actually believe in most of the things conservatives are aligned with. Doing itself no favors. GOP could dominate the legislation if they would stop being so shortsighted.

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What inspired me to start this thread was someone mentioned in another thread that, 30-40 years ago, you didn’t see all the “trans” movement you see now. Where did this come from?

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Insane Asylums we’re deemed ‘Inhumane’

what pray tell is the motivation to encourage homosexuality? Who is behind it? there must be some financial reason behind this grand conspiracy. please enlighten us. the level of insanity here never fails to amaze me. You are a disservice to your screen name.

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Khrushchev was right about taking over America without firing a shot.

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Dictators take by force, commies eliminate the middle class and get voted in by the poor.

To add one thing to the mix (as there are so many aspects to all this, and I see where so many posters have nicely hashed them out)...

With WW2 and then the initial years of the Cold War, and the nature of these situations, a lot of society really started looking up to the generals, the politicians, the media, etc., for guidance. There arose a kind of trust in the 'elites' that hadn't really previously been a part of American culture or society. It went hand-in-hand with people wanting to just put everything on auto-pilot. They were worn out by years and years of Depression and then War, and then the fears of the atom-bomb. People 'checked-out,' and left everything to those they deemed experts, from Dr. Spock to Walter Cronkite. They basically handed over their authority to a lot of northeastern liberal elites, who dictated all trends from art to media to government. In essence, they handed their kids' brains over to them.

With the addition of technology, advertising and the business world helping to cultivate a whole new 'teen' consumer class, which was a new, separate entity, it drilled into the growing baby-boomer generation a sense of self-importance and specialness. Which gradually began defining itself as a rebellious opposite to everything before it. Stoked by the usual commie anti-American types. And this pretty much led to the hippies, and ripped up the fabric that used to keep the society strong, and had contributed to positive, moral civilizational growth.

In shorthand, yeah, I blame the hippies. But in the wider scope, as I described above, it was baked in the cake. The country basically went off the rails rather quickly following WW2, as it handed over all authority to lefty pie-in-sky intellectuals and elites. Normal folks had maybe a decade or two of easy-going life, fairly oblivious, and living with blinders on, while all that rot was taking hold, finally to explode in their faces by the 1960s.