-WiscoDave
Monday, February 21, 2022
The Death of Muscular American Social Life
All my life, I have encountered people who scoff at the notion that the American family was far healthier in the 1950s than it is now. They cannot, of course, point to any strong evidence of widespread unhappiness and dysfunction in that time. Divorces were rare, and so were out-of-wedlock births. American men and women after the war were eager to resume real life. Rosie the Riveter usually wanted children and a home, not a new sweatband and more rivets.
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Grew up that era. It was the best of times, it became sometimes not so good. Interfering government social programs, TV decided we needed more "realism." Which in rural NE Texas was not real at all.
ReplyDeleteHit a homerun. Another Kodak moment...just look at a photo of folks on athe airlines from the sixties and then today.
ReplyDeleteI also grew up in that era. In our neighborhood and our family life, it was pretty much an amalgamation of all those shows.
ReplyDeleteWe can thank that big ass embarrassment from Texas, LBJ and his welfare program, paid for with IOUs to the social security fund. That corrupt piece of shit set us on that path after he killed Kennedy, in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteDiversity was just another lie from .gov.
ReplyDeleteMy late father grew up then. I do wish he'd been more of a storyteller, but I remember a few of the things he told me. Life *was* tougher in those days, less creature comforts. I think that is part of the point. Maybe we are not supposed to be so damned "comfortable" all the time
ReplyDeleteHell, at this point, I'm starting to get sentimental for 1985.
-Just a Chemist
I was in the first wave of Baby Boomers, born 1946 after my dad got back from South Pacific. Good times, prosperous times. My tiny little mountain rural town was heaven on earth, I just didn't realize it at the time.
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