Thread 17969364

In just a few years in the 1960s the western world switched from a belief in liberty and christian values to zealous support for the expansion of central government and nihilistic hedonism. What happened?

>>17969364 (OP)
Knock-on effects of the destruction of the centuries-old global order in the World Wars

>>17969364 (OP)
>Christian values
The Founding Fathers were mostly Deists and many of them were abolitionists.

>>17969364 (OP)
It was already a trend happening since the 50s and late 40s,

>>17969364 (OP)
>belief in liberty
never really existed
>christian values
already in decline long before the 60s
>support for the expansion of central government
had been the case long before the 60s (argubly it had been going on since the early modern period)
>nihilistic hedonism
always had been the case, it just came out into the open

The baby boom and the invention of the pill changed views on sex and family.

>>17969364 (OP)

good times create weak men

1950s was an abnormally prosperous time for America and an entire generation (boomers) grew up on "easy mode". They took everything for granted.

>>17970571
in truth Millenials had it far easier and they became ultimate fags

>>17970571
>1950s was an abnormally prosperous time for America
No it wasn't, the 60s were literally a response to the 50s. Stop spreading this lie.

I don't know. But I do know that this was the last time in history that a grocery store had every check stand manned.

>>17970572

access to better technology does not mean life is necessarily easier.
Its more preferable to grow up in an era before computers, get a job straight out of school, buy a house and pay off the mortgage in 5 years rather than being an underemployed barista in current year, but hey at least you have a smartphone.

>>17970572
Boomers had war PTSD dads who beat them with a belt on a regular basis and people smoked everywhere and didn't have half of today's conveniences. Millenials grew up with soft, weak hover parents and had nothing to worry about except what PS1 game they were getting for Christmas. I mean crimeanon's threads have shown many times how much more animal-like it was in boomers' youths.

>>17970571
really?
>yes