"Fake News": The Emergence of a Post-Fact World

[David Horn]

(01-16-2017, 11:53 AM)SomeGuy Wrote:

David Horn Wrote:The assassination was the edge-event between an era of innocence and everything since. It's hard to even describe that time between WWII and the assassination because it was so different in so many ways. Take it at face value or not.

I'm looking forward to the next 1T.  Several people in a position to know assure me I would have really liked the '50s.  As long as it isn't a "PC" high, I might just get my chance.

The '50s had a lot of both good and bad.  Tailgunner Joe and the HUAC fall squarely in the 'bad' category, but things as bland as the Hayes Code had real negative impacts too.  The 'good' is easy: modernity as we understand it today.  In its own way, it was PC without needing to actually be PC.  There were norms, and they just "were".  There was also prejudice and a narrow-mindedness that was both pervasive and unexceptional.  You knew your place, but the sky was the limit!  Contradictory?  Sure, but no one seemed to mind ... until they did.  That's why the 2T was so explosive.