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Originally Posted by Burninator
I truly think that American society is having a lot of problems. But the problems are made into catastrophes by the news and everyone else. They are hyped up beyond any reasonable point. Everything is dwelled upon to such a finite degree that problems seem to manufactured from all this. Just the culture of that I think is a large problem. My outsider perspective on American is that they have been told to be scared of everything. Everything is a war on (problem). The attitude seems reactionary at times, a reaction to the extremes.
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In the 1950's, the American military industrial complex was three times the size it is today as a percentage of GDP . . . . Eisenhower would be quite pleased at the reduction.
Your school children were practicing hiding under their desks to escape a nuclear bomb . . . . . and they were warned of the assault on morals by the likes of Elvis Presley.
Sex was a sin and an unwanted pregnancy was a thing to take care of with a coat hanger instead of going to a real doctor because of the shame brought on yourself and your family.
The McCarthy Era was running rampant, with Godless Communists seemingly everywhere.
If anything, paranoia is significantly less today than it was in the 1950's . . . . and the very nature of being "conservative" was being reinforced far more forcibly then by churches and government than it is today.
Not sure why people would pine for a time like the 1950's . . . . although, coming out of WWII, it was certainly a period of vast economic expansion and vast hope.
Yet it also yielded the Protest Generation which attempted to break free of those same conservative shackles.
"Trust no one over 30" was aimed at the leaders of the 1950's.
Cowperson