Outside of racism, America was peak in the 50s and 60s. The change is mind blowing.

[MikeLowrrrey]

Maybe not music and movies wise, but everything was there. A husband could walk across the street and get a job paying enough for all the bills. The wife's body count was low. She kept the house clean and kids in order, no need for weirdo strangers watching over your kids. If anything it was a teenage babysitter 4 houses down. Innovation was always around the corner. Cost of living was cheap, life was simple and pleasant.

[shmobin]

And then we invented birth control and things were never the same again.

[yewotm8]

Lol at thinking the right of free association had nothing to do with it.

[mulletwarrior]

IDK think 80s was best

[MonsieurWhite]

>Imagine thinking racism wasn't behind the reason why it was so great and why it's gotten so much worse

[Hussar1]

They were all drunk. Wife was phucking the delivery boy, husband was phucking his secretary.

Husband worked himself to death for a company that eventually got rid of his retirement.

Neurotic wife raised boomer children whose crap we are still dealing with.

Their daughters ran away to San Francisco and spent half their life getting high. Their sons got killed or horribly maimed in Vietnam.

Oh yeah! Happy times!

[N0stradamus]

Nah, the 1990s and 2000s was peak America and Western society - it was the perfect balance of family while still having some relaxed fun.

But now family has been eroded from American society, and "relaxed fun" has accelerated into full blown degeneracy.

[DanteEdmond]

Reading about 1950s America -- that period does sound like the peak. People could graduate high school, get a high paying job right away, get married, and buy a house, car, dog, etc. at 18 years old. Now, you have to get all kinds of college degrees just to live in a small apartment

[Jasonw1178]

The US was never more racist than any other country. SRS.

Just because other countries don't address the problem, or make laws against racism, doesn't mean it doesn't exist there.

[MikeLowrrrey]

>Imagine thinking racism wasn't behind the reason why it was so great and why it's gotten so much worse

Government injected drugs, guns, and hiphop in the Black community buddy boyo. Was downhill from there. Blacks were far better in the 1950s.

[Muzzlrpress]

I think the 80's and 90's should keep going on a loop but we just age normally.

[Hussar1]

Reading about 1950s America -- that period does sound like the peak. People could graduate high school, get a high paying job right away, get married, and buy a house, car, dog, etc. at 18 years old. Now, you have to get all kinds of college degrees just to live in a small apartment

Lol...they and their parents intentionally fukked the later generations. They had it easy, and now we're all paying for it.

Fuk every single one of them.

[Supaduck0]

The 60s definitely seemed like a chad generation to have grown up in

[eod8989]

Nah, the 1990s and 2000s was peak America and Western society - it was the perfect balance of family while still having some relaxed fun.

But now family has been eroded from American society, and "relaxed fun" has accelerated into full blown degeneracy.

This

90's and 2000's was peak culture before 4g/5g, social media and smart phones took over our every day lives


People do not realize how addicted people have become to social media and smart devices let alone other advanced tech just in the last 10 years which has caused numerous social issues

We are basically living in a different world now than the 2000s

[MajorTendonitis]

In the 60’s and early 70’s we rarely even locked our car doors , and may have forgotten to lock the house a few times .
Diversity changed that

[GuineaDago585]

If I could pick any era to be transported back to it’d be the late 90s

[iBangYoGirl]

you can still walk accross the street and get a job to support a family. literally millions of adults live in apartmetns and have kids on 40k/yr wages (which is like 80% the population).

[suave2000]

They were all drunk. Wife was phucking the delivery boy, husband was phucking his secretary.

Husband worked himself to death for a company that eventually got rid of his retirement.

Neurotic wife raised boomer children whose crap we are still dealing with.

Their daughters ran away to San Francisco and spent half their life getting high. Their sons got killed or horribly maimed in Vietnam.

Oh yeah! Happy times!

FUKENNN BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTAL srs

[Hussar1]

In the 60’s and early 70’s we rarely even locked our car doors , and may have forgotten to lock the house a few times .
Diversity changed that

And who voted for that? Gen X wasn't voting age. Millennials and Gen Z weren't born.

So, which generation votes for that?

[HMFIC_BROWSIN]

The only country that has pulled off near-perfect harmony among it's own citizens is Japan.

[Kraken]

>Imagine thinking racism wasn't behind the reason why it was so great and why it's gotten so much worse

That context gets us in trouble. The way to look at it, is that minorities were forced in to high standards. They knew if they didn’t get educated, keep themselves straight, consequences were harsh, harsher than whites.

What changed that was AA and welfare. Now minorities could get by on low standards. This caused the entire culture to change. The other thing is that this told minorities that they could never be good enough without the white man and his gubment.

As mentioned in another thread, Malcom X talked about this constantly. He refused to accept that blacks needed help. That they all had great potential, like any other. MLK on the other hand, being a liberal and socialist, felt the only chance blacks had was through reparations and exploitation of government. MLK and Malcom never reconciled their differences.

[Hussar1]

The only country that has pulled off near-perfect harmony among it's own citizens is Japan.

Not since WW2, and the same can be said about Germany.

But the US and UK decided to destroy that. Wonder why?

[Kraken]

The only country that has pulled off near-perfect harmony among it's own citizens is Japan.

That’s because the Japanese are pretty racist. They won’t let anyone in, nor anyone to pull them away from their culture. Its not all honorable like the stereotypes. Its just that their culture forces out anyone who they feel threatens their ideals. Had an American friend that lived in Japan in the 80s and 90s. He found it very difficult to find places to eat and do business. They held their arms up, crossed like an X, telling him their don’t serve Americans. If he stayed, they pretended he didn’t exist

Otoh, America was set in certain values too. When we started allowing cultures to dictate American values, it was over.

On a final note, unfortunately, every oppressed culture eventually rises up against their oppressor, even if they are living in harmony. I’ll give you three guesses who starts the division of a nation that leads to these revolutions. Its a process though.

I’ll give you a hint; if a culture doesn’t become educated and successful before entering politics, bad things happen.

[Hussar1]

That’s because the Japanese are pretty racist. They won’t let anyone in, nor anyone to pull them away from their culture. Its not all honorable like the stereotypes. Its just that their culture forces out anyone who they feel threatens their ideals. Had an American friend that lived in Japan in the 80s and 90s. He found it very difficult to find places to eat and do business. They held their arms up, crossed like an X, telling him their don’t serve Americans. If he stayed, they pretended he didn’t exist

Otoh, America was set in certain values too. When we started allowing cultures to dictate American values, it was over.

On a final note, unfortunately, every oppressed culture eventually rises up against their oppressor, even if they are living in harmony. I’ll give you three guesses who starts the division of a nation that leads to these revolutions. Its a process though.

I’ll give you a hint; if a culture doesn’t become educated and successful before entering politics, bad things happen.

1) Have lived in Japan. Not visited, lived. You, or your friend is 100% full of it.

2) as to your final note: It's the members of the tribe you Christians worship that causes the problem.

[lsiberian]

90s was the peak actually. It all went downhill from 9/11. That plus dotcom crash destroyed our country.

[Kraken]

1) Have lived in Japan. Not visited, lived. You, or your friend is 100% full of it.

2) as to your final note: It's the members of the tribe you Christians worship that causes the problem.

Lol ok Wincel.

[Evolutionary1]

Population was more congruent with the natural order of things.

Overcrowding etc

[jesterstear]

Over half of married women were on ****** or barbiturates. Unmarried women were terrified of getting pregnant. Men drank liquor several times a day. Most adults smoked and it was allowed everywhere. Things were actually kind of rough around the edges.

[Basiliskboy]

Chit food and culture and music, Horrible cars, wives cheated with the milk and mailman, chit entertainment

[Basiliskboy]

That’s because the Japanese are pretty racist. They won’t let anyone in, nor anyone to pull them away from their culture. Its not all honorable like the stereotypes. Its just that their culture forces out anyone who they feel threatens their ideals. Had an American friend that lived in Japan in the 80s and 90s. He found it very difficult to find places to eat and do business. They held their arms up, crossed like an X, telling him their don’t serve Americans. If he stayed, they pretended he didn’t exist

Otoh, America was set in certain values too. When we started allowing cultures to dictate American values, it was over.

On a final note, unfortunately, every oppressed culture eventually rises up against their oppressor, even if they are living in harmony. I’ll give you three guesses who starts the division of a nation that leads to these revolutions. Its a process though.

I’ll give you a hint; if a culture doesn’t become educated and successful before entering politics, bad things happen.

It’s not racism all the time but most of the time it’s extreme nationalism.
The Japanese saying no service to gaijin is most of the time they can’t speak English. Other times it can be racism as they think most foreigners don’t understand Japanese etiquette and will cause problems.

Things only work for Japan because it’s so homogeneous. If you stick out or cause problems you’re insulting your whole nation. Not particularly a good thing. Japan is hanging on by threads. The yen is so weak right now. And them closing borders for so long hurt them even more.
They’re traditional ways gonna have to change soon