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2007-11-13 Home Front: Culture Wars

Lileks: Things Were Better Then, and Things Are Horrible Now

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Posted by Mike 2007-11-13 06:40|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 I enjoy pointing out that even the good things that came out of the 1960s happened because things were awful. Air and water pollution were awful, litter was everywhere. It was an article of faith with dirty, filthy hippies that they never bathe and have a loathsome odor. Just cleaning all that up makes today far better.

The music were creative and original because much of America was boring beyond stultifying for young people. The one thing they could afford was musical instruments and to form garage bands. So competition was murderous. The vast majority of teenagers stayed home, and did little more then grow their hair a bit longer.

The golden age of movies had come to an end, as had the studio system of movie production. This meant there was also a surfeit of low budget movies in the general collapse of the industry, and the theaters would take anything they could get.

The Democrat party finally collapsed, so was seized by radicals, and the conservative movement was down in the dumps and in retreat, because the MSM said so, and there was no other source of news than those who supported the radicals.

Generally, the 1960s sucked.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-11-13 15:47|| 2007-11-13 15:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Ala THE WONDER YEARS, the 1960's was a great time to be a kid. Sure, we didn't have the things, probs and issues that are pervasive today, or even during the 70's or 80's, but we didn't feel "bad", etc. about ourselves, society, or the world like many want us to in the present. The World is what we make of it - despite the WOT and anti-Americanism, there is still a lot of good things that should be preserved or enhanced.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-11-13 17:31|| 2007-11-13 17:31|| Front Page Top

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