[tacticalogic]

Everything was not perfect in the 50s. Individual liberty was not what it was at the end of the 1900s; the Roosevelt "new deal" (1933 to 1945) and the, "Prussian education system," since the 20's, had done their damage. These, together with many homegrown socialists who received their educations in Europe during the 1800s, the influence of leftist ideas brought to this country between the world wars by such men as Wilhelm Reich (1939), Erich Fromm (1934), and Herbert Marcuse (1933) and others of the Frankfurt school was beginning to dominate the universities (such as Columbia University, Harvard, Brandeis, and the University of California, San Diego), as well as the media, and Hollywood, which they still greatly influence.

Nevertheless, the 50s represented the high point of Western Civilization in the US during the 20th century. We'll examine that twentieth century heigth of civilization by seeing the kind of people that comprised that society in the next article in this series.

The '50s represent the culmination of the American society and culture prior to the New Deal. It was built on a spirit of individual enterprise learned and ingrained before the the rot of socialism and "communitarianism" took hold culturally. I think too many make the mistake of thinking big, centralized bureaucratic government was responsible for it because it's advent preceeded it. It just took it a while to overcome the inertia, but it was the death of it. We'll not see it again unless we throw off the yoke. IMHO.

[Hank Kerchief]

“We’ll not see it again unless we throw off the yoke.”

Very unlikely in my opinion. I’m sure the West will crash and burn, but am hopeful enough individualists will remove themselves before that happens, and remain to rebuild civilization, as has happened so often.

Hank