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What is your assessment of the 1960’s?
Posted on 9/3/19 at 3:33 pm
Posted on 9/3/19 at 3:33 pm
Almost universally praised in media outlets, it seems to me like many of the social problems we have today grew from that decade.
Is the romanticized view accurate?
Is the romanticized view accurate?
This post was edited on 9/3/19 at 3:36 pm
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Posted on 9/3/19 at 3:34 pm to weagle99
Mad Men
Posted on 9/3/19 at 3:34 pm to weagle99
We spent the decade destroying the structure that held our society together, and this has had profound negative repercussions that we continue to deal with today.
This post was edited on 9/3/19 at 3:36 pm
Posted on 9/3/19 at 3:35 pm to weagle99
Intractable entanglements overseas, unrest at home. Sounds familiar AF. At least there was some cool music and a space race for distraction.
Posted on 9/3/19 at 3:36 pm to weagle99
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What is your assessment of the 1960’s?
Posted on 9/3/19 at 3:36 pm to weagle99
Musically awesome
Politically disastrous
Politically disastrous
Posted on 9/3/19 at 3:37 pm to weagle99
I view it as the end of western society that the British began long ago.
Posted on 9/3/19 at 3:38 pm to weagle99
Started off strong but went to complete shite thanks it the rise of progressives and the new left. Their rise was the start of the decline of American society that’s still going on today.
Posted on 9/3/19 at 3:39 pm to weagle99
Cigarettes, liquor, suits, adultery and domestic violence on one coast.
Long hair, weak cannabis & strong psychedelics, flowers, acoustic guitars, beaches and fires, cults and sunshine on the other
Long hair, weak cannabis & strong psychedelics, flowers, acoustic guitars, beaches and fires, cults and sunshine on the other
This post was edited on 9/3/19 at 3:40 pm
Posted on 9/3/19 at 3:39 pm to weagle99
Binge watching Mad Men for the first time now. Can't say im not jealous.
Posted on 9/3/19 at 3:40 pm to weagle99
Plenty of problems grew out of the 60s but the 60s actually merited some of the reactionary culture/politics of the era.
The 50s arguably deserved the sexual revolution, and racial strife/cold war/vietnam deserved at least some level of protest and political overhaul. That's not to justify lily-white kids bearing arms in support of the PLO and other ridiculous shite, but it was a legitimately interesting time and cultural shift.
Attempting to treat every subsequent decade like it's the 60s is the problem. A whole generation is bored and desperate to find struggle/conflict where it doesn't naturally exist.
The 50s arguably deserved the sexual revolution, and racial strife/cold war/vietnam deserved at least some level of protest and political overhaul. That's not to justify lily-white kids bearing arms in support of the PLO and other ridiculous shite, but it was a legitimately interesting time and cultural shift.
Attempting to treat every subsequent decade like it's the 60s is the problem. A whole generation is bored and desperate to find struggle/conflict where it doesn't naturally exist.
Posted on 9/3/19 at 3:40 pm to weagle99
That's because the media is overwhelmingly liberal, and they are big fans of the degradation of society that grew from the 60's.
Posted on 9/3/19 at 3:41 pm to AUCE05
quote:beginning of the end
I view it as the end of western society that the British began long ago.
The official end will be the Muslim takeover
Posted on 9/3/19 at 3:42 pm to weagle99
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Almost universally praised in media outlets
I guess I missed this. We had a President assassinated, his brother assassinated while he was running for President, 2 prominent civil rights leaders(MLK and Fred Hampton) assassinated, multiple race riots, 4 college students shot by the National Guard, protesters beaten by Chicago police at the Democratic National Convention.
Some aspects may be praised by the media, but the political climate that decade was in a lot of ways worse than it is now.
Posted on 9/3/19 at 3:44 pm to Kafka
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The official end will be the Muslim takeover
Maybe by that time nukes would have been used at some point.
And the second holy wars are fought on battlefields with swords and leftover guns.
Hope japan is still on our side.
Posted on 9/3/19 at 3:44 pm to weagle99
The late 60' are glamorized by the left who were living back then and trying to relive it today
Posted on 9/3/19 at 3:47 pm to The Spleen
When I was at LSU (late '80s) I saw interviews with students my age who were nostalgic about the '60s b/c "things were so relaxed and uncomplicated then"
The Past is always innocent
The Past is always innocent
Posted on 9/3/19 at 3:50 pm to weagle99
The old hammer and sickle.
Posted on 9/3/19 at 3:51 pm to weagle99
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many of the social problems we have today grew from that decade.
I'm also interested in hearing which social problems today grew from the 60's, and how and why you think that.
Posted on 9/3/19 at 3:51 pm to weagle99
Should have elected Goldwater in ‘64. He would have nuked the gooks and the hippies.
This post was edited on 9/3/19 at 3:52 pm
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