Although not so much now, I used to enjoy watching films from the past as a way of traveling through time to watch people and culture from different eras. And of all the decades, America in the 1950s always struck me as a time of stability, decency, and optimism. It is also quite refreshing to watch feminine and classy women who were around just few generations ago.
Of course, the reality wasn’t as rosy as what is shown in the films. As with all other decades, America faced number of problems with the issue of race and the Cold War being notable examples. That said, I don’t think any era was ever “perfect” or great for everyone and I don’t think there ever will be such thing.
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So, without getting too caught up in nostalgia, I think the 1950s stands as a prime example of how stability and prosperity, in combination with traditional family values, can facilitate a harmonious society. And the following pictures and graphs will show just how quickly things can change when the government and subversive social elements decide to alter the existing order by experimenting with ideas of ‘equality’ and using the citizens as objects for profit.
Family
A nuclear family is the most basic unit of a healthy society and the 1950s was the last time America as a whole witnessed stable family units.
Women back then were happy being wives and mothers unlike the hags today who are slaving away in cubicles.
You can criticize anything else about the 50s, but it is hard to argue against the quality of family life back then.
Marriage, however, has been experiencing a rapid decline since.
Why such decline you wonder? See below.
It’s inevitable for marriage to suffer and the sexes to become antagonized when women decide to abandon family life for careers. It may have seemed like a good idea at the time, but as they say, the rest is history.
Life
People in the 50s lived simple and happy lives where they enjoyed actual face-to-face interactions. There was no need for superficial online status comparisons. Other human beings were people to interact with and not just sources of validation to get “likes” from.
Crime And Safety
The 50s experienced an extremely low crime rate to a point where families didn’t feel the need to lock their doors or windows at night.
The recent drop in violence probably has more to do with the complete emasculation of men starting in the 90s than any improvements in society.
The rise of prison nation.
Parents felt safe enough to allow their children to play outside.
Rape rate was lowest when women were being ‘oppressed’ by the patriarchy, only to shoot up with the rise of feminism. Coincidence?
I’m sure feminists will just argue that all sex was rape back in the day.
Women
Women back then were thin, healthy, and feminine without the trashy tattoos and piercings you see today.
But of course, it was the 1950s that gave birth to the fast food culture with disastrous consequences for American health and beauty.
Maybe they need to do more chores around the house instead of sitting at a desk job.
And perhaps more importantly, women were happy being women because they didn’t have to constantly lie to themselves that they were happier with a career.
Today, many women rely on antidepressants just to function on a daily basis without breaking down. Is that really what feminists fought so hard to achieve?
The rise of antidepressants. American women today are miserable and mentally ill thanks to feminism forcing them to juggle work and family life. About 1 in 4 are currently on psychiatric drugs.
Health
Besides obesity and depression which I’ve already mentioned above, American health has been in steady decline since the end of 1950s.
If the trend continues, 1 out of every 3 Americans are expected suffer from diabetes by 2050.
National health expenditure, as a consequence, has been growing like a tumour.
What’s shocking is how fast children’s health have been declining in the past couple of decades.
These children didn’t needed to be ‘cured’ of ADHD.
I wonder if the sudden rise of learning disorders has anything to do with the fact that women are delaying marriage as much as possible for their careers?
This is only for Down syndrome, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it were true with many other developmental disorders.
Dating
Dating and forming relationships were simple back in the day without the need to play games.
Many men today fare poorly when it comes to dating because they interact with women as if it’s still the 1950s. It’s also ironic how many male feminists claim to respect women based on values that were formed back in patriarchal times. Sorry to burst your bubbles chumps, but your chivalry doesn’t work today.
Economy
United States during this time was at the peak of its economical dominance in the world, representing about a third of the entire world’s economy.
Then they decided that it would be great to flood the job market with women so that wages could stay low.
As you can see, male employment has been plummeting since the 50s. When you disenfranchise those who are the backbone of your society and take away any incentive for them to marry and raise a family, you can be sure that everything else will start to fall apart.
Welfare = Single Mothers = Children Without Fathers = Increased Crime and Social Decadence.
Interestingly, taxes on the rich were at its highest during this era.
Conclusion
America has been decaying rapidly since the 1950s with almost every aspect of society failing—and things are only about to get even worse. While this is a showcase of how good things can be lost so easily, it is also a demonstration of what can be possible under a patriarchal order with proper social values.
While things may seem impossible to change at the moment, remember that history has always been full of unanticipated events that quickly turned things around to transform the society at large. Think of how much China has recovered (and now thriving) since their devastating Communist past from just a few decades ago.
Anything is possible, you just need to be ready for it.
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Those family pictures – the ones on the beach – how come none of the women have multiple tats? I don’t see any piercings either. What’s wrong with these people? They should be wearing thongs, with their boob’s hanging out on top.
Today, most people are fools. Both men and women work their asses off – divorce / child support / whatever. And they think this is freedom? It’s the exact opposite.
Especially divorce or out-of-wedlock children. What are these people thinking (actually not thinking). My grandfather said: “You only have enough blood for one head. Once the blood goes to the little head – there’s no blood in the big head”.
I was extremely lucky to have authored some very successful software. We could afford to have my wife be a homemaker.
Hey Dutch, El Doggy says anybody can afford to have their wife be a homemaker. The problem is they are not thinking correctly. They have bought into the feminist idea that if women can get a job, they should have a job. Doggy says they will have the funds for that extra car and gewgaws but the kids pay for it by not having the mother at home. I’m not sure if you think missing fathers have an impact on kids but likely missing moms affect them or at least deprive them of that privilege we had.
I call day-care: warehousing children. It makes no sense. They have children (which I think would be precious to them), and then have complete strangers, that are paid minimum wage, raise and be the primary influence to their values. I mean putting infants in day-care – that’s really fucked up. At day-care they sit them in front of the TV, have them watch Barney or Sesame Street shit – all while getting a subliminal progressive messages about diversity / transgender / social justice / how to report your parents to the authorities.
It’s child abuse.
If you can’t afford to feed them, or take care of them – don’t have them!
Right on, Right on , Right on EC. El Doggy got that right.
Don’t worry – the ’50s will come back.
Around 2025, if Strauss and Howe are accurate…
sure they will . . . the 2050’s
they will not, however, resemble the 1950s in any way, shape or form. We cannot recreate the conditions that made America powerful in that era.
This is the reply rolling around in my mostly empty brain to HF’s article written by some moran : Dude Where’s My Culture? It describes the decline of the country, economically and morally since the 50’s. I wonder if the Joos stole my youth?
Of course, this maroon also has an agenda but I don’t mind him beating up on women. Women are a menace, if we could get a mono-gender country going, it would be a nice place indeed.
M-O-R-O-N a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment: a friendly reminder…
He’s making a joke about my surname and the ubiquitous Interweb meme based on this-
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Every time a nu-b corrects EC on that spelling somewhere a regular laughs.
Every time anyone corrects a newb on that spelling I always laugh. The anons on 8chan have a rule that says one must lurk for THREE YEARS before posting. Basically, if you have a question about anything over there, you haven’t lurked long enough! Sound advice for 8chan and TBP.
IS, this is off topic, and it’s a c&p forward of a msg. to Vixen yesterday. It’s points out a late addition comment posted yesterday on “It’s About to Break” thread, which originated on 12-22-17? It’s interesting, but can only guess as to what some of it means. Was a comment by a poster named Qanate, with a date & time stamp of 1-3-18 at 4:50 pm. The crumbs seem to be on the heels of the back & forth you were active on about Baron. Take a look, and see if you can shed some light. Then, too, it might be nothing, unworthy of the time. If that’s the case, ignore.
I definitely do. I nominate macarooni as a contender.
I was aware of your first name but the moran spelling is simply classic TBP, as is the use of there for they’re and your for you’re.
HSF, Thanks. I keep seeing it and wondered if anybody had the heart to tell him…
So, OK who’s the moran now, new-b that’s who
“Dating and forming relationships were simple back in the day without the need to play games.”
ROFL! Seriously? I want some of what he’s smoking!
My mom went to work during WWII like all patriotic women did. My brother was 3. The lady across the hall babysat. My mom never left the workforce until she got pregnant with me. By then, my brother was 17 when I was born. No siblings besides him. He was expected to have dinner ready, at least to start cooking, by the time my parents got home from work.
Maybe you noticed the thin women have no tits. Just sayin, you can’t have it both ways.
Many of you are near my age, I believe. Did your mom wear dresses while she cleaned the house, or even at all, while at home? Maybe the 60’s were a little different than the 50’s, I don’t know since I am too young. Still, she didn’t wear sweatpants, either. Slacks, shorts or something in between. She never looked like a ragamuffin, a term she reserved for me when I got dirty playing outside. She dressed very nice for church or dinners out. I have pics of her from the 50’s and older. She still wore slacks at home most of the time.
Most of his post is true, I just think he’s romanticizing the time somewhat.
We were blue collar, my dad was a railroader, so maybe the upper middle class and wealthy dressed nicer. They tended to have a housekeeper.
Did your mom wear dresses while she cleaned the house, or even at all, while at home?
This is a family site, Mary. Despite Wipper’s article on PornHub stats.
Or panties ?
Don’t make me laugh, Dutch, my ribs ache from coughing.
How are you holding up, Iska?
Finally feeling well enough. It’s up to 5F today. I may catch some rays outside – in the nude.
small body parts with large surface areas freeze first. Keep the veggies warm and the kids from being horrified
You guy’s won’t hear from me for a while. I’m getting my hip replaced on Monday the 8th.
I’m only going to be in the hospital for one day. They tell me I have a 2 PT sessions the same day, and two more the next.
Good luck, Dutch! I think, worse case scenario, you have to shit standing up for a few days.
It’s so cold here in Mpls – I could go outside to shit, and it would freeze before it hit the ground. -16 F on New Years day.
Hey Dutch, you can thank Trump for nipply temps. In addition to MAGA he’s fixing global warming too!
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I feel your pain. I’m getting a new hip tomorrow morning.
New Year, new hip, sounds hip.
hey dutch,
is the doc somali?
He had some monkey bones around his neck.
EC, oh dear…you are such a mess..lol!
Mary….thanx for your opinion.
FYI, I like small titties; I’ve read where the Germans used to call the women with big ones, Cows.
Nothing wrong with Mary’s 44’s, queer monkey.
The sexy mulata has got a pair of bigguns, what you got against big tits?
I’ve read where the Germans used to call men with small dicks, Koko.
Well that deteriorated rapidly..
I am appalled at how fat people have become. Not only that, the women who wear yoga pants that should really be wearing gunny sacks. You almost want to make yoga pants illegal!
Mary, Koko is an older gentleman and he deserves my respect for that alone but I still have flashbacks to his deckboard days and it will take me a while to get over that.
Really, his info about liking fried egg tits was unsolicited.
Am glad MC is dodging the booby trash talk notvme.
The Truth above about my country and countrymen being methodically destroyed by the Oligarchs hurts me deeply maybe because I still have a Soul that Sees but many of the Youth have sold their Souls for garbage like Cultural Communism, Dope, Welfare, college loans, Hollywood and NYC lies etc; they wouldn’t know the Truth if it bit them in the ass.
I’ll just keep this simple. If the 50’s were so wonderful, then why did it begat the counterculture?
The Beats despised conformity. They despised Squares.
Marxists took control of the universities. It’s been downhill ever since.
The whirld is spherical. Plus it spins. It’s all downhill, all the time. Ski the fall line, even tho head & trunk facing the slope is counterintuitive.
You ain’t whistling Dixie my friend. Still, we must play our parts…
Too bad the answer to ‘what’s my motivation’ isn’t “learning” more often.
I was at Jackson Hole one time. Skied up to the edge of Corbet’s Couloir. Looked down, backed away. Didn’t want to die that day. But there was another run, long & steep. By the time my crash concluded, I was almost naked – slope behind me littered with just about everything I had on. I learned a few things. ha.
I used to learn the same way on a pretty consistent basis. Now I’m too old and screwed up for that schtick. I have visions of drinking the rest of my meals through a straw. On thinking about it maybe I did learn something…
We used to call that “having a yard sale”.
That’s actually pretty good, forgetful. With all the medications I’m taking for the flu, I was able to dig your groove, baby!
BioTech Pharmacal sells a 50K iu vitamin d capsule. Might help with now. Might help prevent sequels. First tracks – prevention – always good.
Oh, you have the flu, EC? I’m impressed you have any sense of humor at all? Although, humor is the best medicine, you know.
May you recover quickly.
Shots of Brandy, and not the one by Looking Glass.
” There’s a port, on a western bay, and it serves a hundred ships a day…”
Yeah. What MC said.
I read that Cali is experiencing a major flu season.
My wife says her daughter’s boys, age 2 and 2 months are sick also. Poor kiddos. Kids can’t take medication, they have to tough it out.
They are projecting a flu pandemic for 2018 perhaps because pandemics, like revolutions, occur every hundred years.
I don’t normally extol the benefits of pharmaceuticals but lemme tell ya a little story.
Two years ago I was in chemo. These treatments took my white cell count perilously low for about a week after each one. During one of the low points, my husband came down with type A flu. My oncologist put me on tamiflu and I barricaded him in the bedroom for a week. I wore a mask when I passed food to him and picked up the dishes. Plus, I was not feeling too whippy myself. The treatments wiped me out. It was a tough week and a lot of people prayed for us but no one, except for one person would come by. She dropped some food by for us. If I got the flu, it probably would have put me in the hospital and possibly might have killed me.
I never got sick. I would take the Tamiflu again. I’m sure the prayers helped, too.
Actually, I can’t even remember the last time I had a cold. It seems I have an immune system that could fight everything except cancer. I hope that I have changed some things enough that I can fight the cancer, now, too.
I’ve had three cases of severe flu. Almost all those times, I was in poor shape anyway, drinking and smoking.
The doc that convinced me that it’s a good idea to ask for antibiotics for the flu was a D.O. like AWD, somebody willing to explained the nature of your case. He said the flu virus weakens you, the bacteria take advantage of the situation and you end up feeling like a freight train hit you.
Most docs won’t tell you that. (The guy I saw yesterday reminded me there is no cure for the flu. I agreed but said I might have pneumonia. He looked in my throat again and decided it looked streppy, it certainly felt that way, and without another word added antibiotic to my pills list.) They prefer to let you think all you have is flu. You practically have to beg them for antibiotic.
They don’t tell you that in the state propaganda film American Graffiti.
You had to wait for Animal House for the counter punch.
Focusing on the 50’s is a great way of dispelling the bad Karma of JFK’s coup d’état
and Nixon’s war on drugs, not to mention that other war that bankrupted the US.
Movies…some seem to think there was a before-propaganda. Russell’s “A Renegade History of the United States” dispels that. Edison, jewish gangsters (nickelodeons & smut), Hollywood, Mussolini’s Italy, & DC. Pre-digested pics, then moving pics.
rogues and outliers
egg before chicken
or versa vice
egg drop soup or
fricassée
one choice would disable the other
the levitating path can be a perilous one
Thunder on.
Many things are outliers to inliers. Egg is beformed chicken. & v\v. chicken bone broth – from previous fricassee – eggs dropped in, whisked. Both choices, enabling the other. Slipping the surly bonds ain’t as perilous as bonding the surly short & curlies. It’s a lot more fun, too. But watching the stooges can be fun, as well.
I once read that mandatory school produced the youth culture. Prior to that, youth and adults enjoyed the same types of music, dance, entertainment.
But then again, it seems every era has its rebellious generation. In the 1600s, college students would try to pull down whorehouse in London.( (You would think they would be trying to break in, but it’s the opposite). In the 1700s, you had fops, men who wore extravagant, elegant clothes. It seems they cared more about their dress than the women did.
I guess there’s always a rebellious generation in the turnings that eventually leads to a 4th turning.
Boomers….
Sure, the 1950s weren’t perfect. So what? It’s a reasonable generality that the US middle class, then a significant majority of the population, had a better material standard of living than any other country. Because of that, emotional satisfaction was generally commonplace.
Ethnic and rural-white poor generally weren’t lacking food, clothing and shelter. Modest, sure, but not shabby–and little hostility. Again “generally”.
Note that as governmental assistance increased, more taxes at the local and state levels, along with fees, increased the cost of living such that wives began to enter the workplace in increasing numbers–even without the women’s libbers. Monetary policy didn’t help, as evidenced by LBJ’s guns’n’butter inflation in the 1960s.
FWIW, I saw Manila in 1949, Hong Kong and some cities in Japan in 1950, and South Korea in 1954/55–plus R&R in Hong Kong and Tokyo. Two years in Paris in 1956/57 plus travel around Europe. Lots of BTDT causing my opinions offered above.
Beatniks? Small but noisy. As with the Hippies, the media did its usual “create excitement” thing, just as it always has and is doing today. Excitement sells advertising–and creates bandwagons.
Excellent article sir and so true. I would like to ad one other characteristic of 1950’s women: Modesty! Look at the picture’s of the women in the article and the pornographic pictures of the Ho’s in the ads below the article! Point made!
That cocksucker stole my Pictorial Essay format!!!
I’m suing that fucken thief.
When will someone come along and say life was never like that … that it’s just nostalgic bullshit .. false memories … and other psychobabble?
My life WAS like that and we even had tons of kneegrows in the south. So what changed?
People in the North paid a price… at least the ones who couldn’t afford to live in gated communities.
Sounds like you’ve got a plan Sturky.
38 selected pics, 38 slanted captions. A packed indictment for choirboys & girls singin’ somewhere over the auld lang syne rainbow.
If all you saw was Mayberry & Walton’s Mountain, you were lucky. But you didn’t see everything. You didn’t even see most. Not even close.
With regards to the past, not just the 50’s…
I remember my dad telling me that his grandfather wasn’t very nice to his wife (dad’s grandmother). I’ll let your imagination run with that a bit.
On the other hand obesity, piercings, tattoos and progressivism weren’t virtues either. So there’s that.
You used to see those things in old movies, not the nostalgia ones. Men routinely slapping women or punching strangers. That was white male priv! Pussies today get smacked for an imaginary micro-aggression. Puhleeze!
I always thought it was more fun punching people I knew. Less likely to get a blade in the ribs or some such than with someone you didn’t. These days I’m a lover. Mother nature has seen to that.
Edit: Until she doesn’t .:-)
The good old days…
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My grandfather was so horrible to my grandmother, she scorned the shame of divorce in the ’20s in a small town and left him.. moved back in with my great-grands until she remarried a few years later. It must have been the talk of the town for a while.
“Think of how much China has recovered (and now thriving) since their devastating Communist past from just a few decades ago.”
Yes there are a lot of reasons to be an optimist in the longer term. Perhaps a better comparison than China is the rebirth of the Russian people with traditional values including a belief in Christianity (~70%) following the destruction of their traditional way of life under Marxist Bolshevism. The Russian and American people share a lot in common which perhaps explains why the Zionist neo-Bolsheviks who now control the USSA are promoting a pack of lies with a false narrative on Russia.
One piece of good news is that young women today are becoming increasingly aware that they were lied to about family, marriage and living conditions in the 1950s by the subversive feminists. We have all suffered from cultural Marxism and the destruction of our civilization but particularly women as shown by a marked increase in the use of anti-depressants, the breakdown of marriage and family, and the increase in rapes and sexual violence.
We heterosexual white males lost just about everything with the enactment of the so-called “civil-rights” acts, which outlawed true “freedom of association” and replaced it with government-backed and enforced “public accommodation” statutes. Troops were used against Americans who protested against school “integration”–government behavior that, in previous times, would have been considered un-American.
All one has to do is look how these misguided “civil-rights” laws have been used AGAINST heterosexual white males, every fringe and perverted “group” (except heterosexual white males) is now protected by these government-backed and enforced blatantly unconstitutional laws.
You see, heterosexual white males do not have “civil-rights” protections–only Constitutional rights. Constitutional rights trump civil-rights, every time…
If there were no blacks in the 50’s just where the fck did the come from?
Not one ethnic in the bunch. Who left the door open?
I want answers!
Planet of the Apes.
“China has recovered (and now thriving) since their devastating Communist past”
You might want to tell the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China about this because they believe China is and shall remain communist. They also believe they are employing the economic engine of capitalism to launch the perfect socialist state. And thriving??? I’ve been to China; the working class is not thriving.
This definitely didn’t help, at least in the North!
The 1950s was peak kneegrow migration time!
The decline was, and still is, by design.
You get a lot right. Something bears mentioning though:
Rape/sexual assault were poorly reported, cared about, or even addressed.
I remember driving my mother to the hospital because he rung her bell so hard she couldn’t see straight for a few days. Not to mention the black eyes. Broke nose. Bruising around the throat.
“Probably shouldn’t get the police involved, these things happen for a reason you know sweety.”
The real problem we find ourselves in is that the Progressives of the past (and we DID make some Progress in the last century…believe it or not) threw the baby out with the bath water, and introduced a sort of cultural total warfare that can only result in a civic war.
Much like the Unions of the last century, the Liberal Progressives got everything they wanted, and rather than celebrating their victory, they grew desperate. Its hard to be a downtrodden warrior without a cause to fight for. Now they invent causes without victims, and create victims out of entire new portions of society. Utter madness.
Definitely an aspect to those good old days. I saw how the cops handled domestic violence\abuse: mostly hands off. Women, kids – chattel, 2nd class. Maybe lower. A nation of laws. haha. Castes, castaways.
When you take a look at the differences you’d have to be a bald faced liar to say that changes have been for the better, but you know the time we live in. Universal deceit and all that jazz.
There are good things in every time and there are bad things. Is it better for a minority population to suffer marginalization while the majority population enjoys their lives or should the majority suffer in order to even the score for minorities? I guess that depends on whether you’re part of the majority or the minority. Is a woman who has the freedom to screw random guys who DGAF and post the pics on the Internet enjoying a better life than a woman who marries young and only has the experience of being with her husband for the rest of her life? Children or cats? Bowling or Xanax? Growing your own vegetables or My 600 Pound Life? Segregation or polar bear hunting on World Star Hip-Hop? a choice between 2, 10 cent sodas or four hundred and fifty HFCS soft drinks @ $2.50 a pop? Pleasant cities or no-go zones. Friendly policemen or masked SWAT teams in full body armor.
The list goes on. And on. And on.
The past is the past, let the dead bury the dead, but don’t try to tell people that it didn’t exist and at the same time say that it needs to be deconstructed down to the plaques on the back of the Church pews.
Let those who have eyes see.
I guess that’s why we’re here to remind ourselves of the past. Otherwise, when the country has gone full communist, there will be nothing left to remind anybody of what peak freedom was like for a brief decade or two. I recall that was the purpose of the Little House on the Prairie series; to illustrate what life was like on the frontier in those days.
“The Moving- Finger writes and having- writ,
Moves on; nor all your piety nor wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
Nor all your tears blot out a word of it.” – Kansas
“Without words, without writing, there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”
-Herman Hesse
Medita\confronta\considera•tions….
For the times, as an average or generality, to have been different, the people, on average & in general, who promulgate the time’s tone amongst themselves ~ particularly in retrospect – the temporal telephone game ~ would have needs been different. They weren’t. They aren’t. They will almost certainly never be different.
Your experience, my experience, don’t sound like twains that’ll ever meet. But mine is closer to suffused with the verities of human condition than optimism & rose tints can see (whether suckled by “good” experiences\context•niches, or not – flashin’ on ‘neither good nor bad’…which also means good•bad & bad•good). Humanimal world is a rough-edged•to•edge place. Always has been, likely will always be.
A value that gets consistently, incorrectly, discounted to zero: the tone of that time was built astride the gigantic malinvestment of ww2 (which “unwound” the malinvestment of ww1… which stroked the malinvestment of 1913\roaring 20’s… which…which…which…sandwiches…& you got more than an inkling, by now, about what stuffs those sandwiches: once more unto the bready breach, dear friend-o’s, once more – pogo parasite is hungry).
20’s. 50’s. These rosy flush hallmark greeting card periods were set-ups. Real traps but otherwise not real. As have been the set-ups since the 50’s. Just bubbles. Pop’s preordained. What’s a soufflé that don’t fall, after all? A wax museum piece, maybe. & the crime syndicates called countries are museums intent on waxing their collections of citizenserfs. Wax on, wax off, Macchio do about nuthin’ – turnin’ sumthin’ into nuthin’ into sumthin’ – Bastiat’s busted window style. Master•serf•bation plantation nations.
Not unoften, a good trade or hand dealt early on, like in formative youth – but not only in youth – & especially in scenes that have been set with the idea of free will, control, skill – is the worst thing that can happen. At the often least, it is a deadend box canyon that either one reverses out of & continues on way, or it’s home. Intermittent reward schedules are very compelling, distorting: that’s my “pattern” & I’m sticking to it, despite any\all china-shoppin’ bulls ….
Mean regression is real. & set-ups speed that process along. ‘The first one’s free, kid’ speeds that regression along. But that’s just one direction. Ebb happens. Flow happens (but less often). The complete, arcing pendulum movement is mean aggression↔mean reversion. Punches thrown beget punches taken. And damages – concussions, tbi’s – are cumulative. “Opponents” were flattened in the 40’s. “The winner” wore the belt in the 50’s. & the punchy Rocky sequels just keep spiraling downward. Of course & as must.
It’s not a matter of memories good or bad, individual or collectivized. It’s a matter of perspective. Above personal memories. (Saw a bald eagle soaring yesterday. Even if it remembered fatdaddy Franklin’s better preference for nat-bird, it doesn’t even know, or care, it, like every citizenserf, was nationalized…but it does know the score.) More forest synthesis instead of tree parenthesis. Or, as put the other day, less cheap (via monopolies of force & fraud) credit, & short time preference\parentheses, more precious metal objectivity.
People are people. Wherever. Whenever. Reality, larger chunks of it anyway, isn’t the bag of the preggers middle. It ain’t even all that common out in the tail.
‘You can never go home again’ is a saying. But it doesn’t say anything about how much, or little, was ever home to begin with. Home, home in the ebbflow range? Where the headlighted venison, & the buffalo’d roam? Where seldom is herd & dis•cur•aging whirred (wag that puppy dog), & the skies are not cloudy all day. But clouds in my coffee ♪♫♪ clouds in the lenses of eyes – those are as all over the place as starbucks burned-brew drivethrus.
Those “Happy Days” were neither good, nor bad. Nor better. Nor worse. Wax, Icarus; feathers, Daedalus. How’s the head, Macchio? Eagles on thermals, turkeys on ground…hog days is every day.
No history books don’t mean no history. Better yet, books ain’t no better than oral tradition telephone games. Which ain’t to say they’re worthless. Just that they’re worth less than some, many, subjective valuers claim. words…s\word…papercuts:
If you look at the time line in a bigger picture and the now coined phrase “deep state” , the 50s wouldve been the very early beginnings of the CIA … eventually the petro dollar; first signaling of power would be Korea? and war there … it was gov that ruined ALL of it. Big pharma, Big media, Big gov, spy agency development …. much would begin during this time and com to fruition a decade or so later…
But of course it was the populace that voted for it and ignored it.
The only drawback of the 1950s is the analog technology.
Get rid of the parasites at the bank, in the media and the welfare rolls and you can live that way on Mars with futuristic molecular computers and droids.
A couple graphs that might be worth adding:
1. The number of government employees and contractors.
2. The number of rules, laws and regulations.
The blinkers re 1950s are stunning. There was a lot of bad shit going on below the surface. There was lots of family violence, lots of sexual violence, lots of child abuse, lots of corruption, mean and vicious cops, etc. It simply was not reported.
But there was also a generally better morality. It was not all peaches and cream, though.
The problem is there’s always bad shit going on below the surface. Probably since the first microbe crawled out of the slime.
Utopia ain’t coming, never.
But we need to dream, if only about a past that never really existed.
Why do people keep saying that? If it didn’t exist how is it possible to have so many people remember it and what are those photographs?
Please don’t try to tell people that their experience is a false memory, just share your own.
I wasn’t intending to claim that this past didn’t exist, just that some might want to see it that way. Why? The past is usually romanticized; all memories are false to some degree – check the research.
Please don’t try to tell me what I should or should not try to tell people. 🙂
kara, you are not a noob. You should know better than to make a weak case here. Let me help you write a sentence with a bit of impact:
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“Please don’t try to tell me what I should or should not try to tell people. (smiley face)”
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Listen, numbnuts, maybe your glorified comedy tour of bar mitzvah’s and Shriner’s conventions is in large part due to your false memories. Don’t tell me what to say to people, I’m not your Charlie McCarthy touring companion.
* note the above is for edification of noobs concerning appropriate ‘attitude’ and has no basis in fact
Thanks EC.
I was gonna say ‘I think JohnBoy hardscrabble’s been hanging out in the back 40 smoking those cowpatties he’s so fond of a bit too much lately,’ but decided discretion was the better part of valor.
I stand corrected.
100. I win.