tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205333.post2590793138236735509..comments2023-10-16T11:28:03.544+00:00Comments on Anomaly UK: What Happened in the Sixties?Anomaly UKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04780148789321563441noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205333.post-66215908320061261352014-02-20T19:10:16.114+00:002014-02-20T19:10:16.114+00:00Religious divides such as Lutheran vs. Catholic us...Religious divides such as Lutheran vs. Catholic used to be a big deal even into the 60's in the US. This was probably a vestige of the old conservative and traditional attitudes in US culture. That all got washed away during the 60's.<br /><br />anon3noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205333.post-4847349991111563412013-11-27T05:53:19.224+00:002013-11-27T05:53:19.224+00:00Clear Slatism gone virtually unchallenged inside t...Clear Slatism gone virtually unchallenged inside the 1950s. The particular couple of academics whom dissented were being clogged out of your media. The particular traditions seemed to be soaked within Freudianism into a actually ludicrous diploma. The particular Frankfurt School's ant-Christian, anti-tradition "The Authoritarian Personality" seemed to be graciously embraced by means of academia. The particular "American Way of Life" was entirely described by means of consumerism. Brilliant places were being May well McCarthy and also TV SET and also motion picture Westerns.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.greenworldbvi.com/alternative-investments-options/agricultural-farmland/australian/" rel="nofollow">farmland investments</a><br />hasanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16352622685799052049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205333.post-66441820245416564732013-11-21T12:14:27.894+00:002013-11-21T12:14:27.894+00:00I just spotted Bruce Charlton's answer to the ...I just spotted <a href="http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/what-happened-in-1960s.html" rel="nofollow">Bruce Charlton's answer</a> to the same question.<br /><br />"what happened in the 1960s was the sexual revolution, and the purpose driving the sexual revolution was the destruction of Christianity and its removal from public discourse. And the reason for this is that the Left is anti-Christian."<br /><br />I don't think the sexual revolution was a secret anti-christian conspiracy. Blaming promiscuous desire for social problems is like blaming greed for economic problems — it's always there so it has no explanatory power. The question is why people <i>get away with</i> sexual license or theft.<br /><br />And I stand by my answer: the sexual revolution happened because conservatism, mortally wounded, as Alexander Irwin observed above, by the first world war, had finally died in the the fifties.<br /><br />Where Charlton's observation fits is that the sexual revolution represents the final break between leftism and Christianity. Up to the sixties, Christian belief had been an important strand of leftism, and the left, though it had a large atheist component, kept the Christian left on-side for its major conflicts.<br /><br />From the sixties, the Christian left still existed, but in the absence of conservative opposition the mainstream (atheist) left no longer <i>needed</i> its support and no longer had to bother about its funny hangups with sex. Therefore the sexual revolution.<br /><br />There is an alternative explanation based on contraception and antibiotics. I think the sexual revolution would have happened anyway, though I'm sure they helped a bit.<br />Anomaly UKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04780148789321563441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205333.post-47022399832559199702013-11-06T19:51:27.668+00:002013-11-06T19:51:27.668+00:00I think the death of conservatism as a force among...I think the death of conservatism as a force amongst the ruling classes actually occurred much earlier, around the outbreak of World War I. The Parliament Bill Crisis broke the power of the House of Lords at nearly the same time the power of land owners was broken in the U.S. by the Federal Reserve Act and the 16th and 17th Amendments.<br /><br />Upon analysis, World War I may have been the final assault of the Left on the last bastions of conservatism capable of resisting it. Once Germany was broken, the Swiss would have to accept Finlandization, and all global finance would be under the control of the Left.<br /><br />In any event, the outcome of World War I established Leftism as the wave of the future of the ruling classes, and the rest of the 20th century was merely the evolutionary contest to select the dominant of the possible variants and gradually to remodel mass culture to conform to it.<br /><br />So the social upheavals of the 1960s were the final, open workings-out of a change in the ruling orders which had occurred two generations earlier.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09683837553165491855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205333.post-605395663739516592013-10-31T14:09:49.259+00:002013-10-31T14:09:49.259+00:00Yeah, Blank Slatism went virtually unchallenged i...Yeah, Blank Slatism went virtually unchallenged in the 1950s. The few academics who dissented were blocked out of the media. The culture was drenched in Freudianism to a really absurd degree. The Frankfurt School's ant-Christian, anti-tradition "The Authoritarian Personality" was enthusiastically embraced by academia. The "American Way of Life" came to be wholly defined by consumerism. Bright spots were Joe McCarthy and TV and movie Westerns.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com