03-26-2020, 01:14 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-26-2020, 01:14 AM by Eric the Green.)
(03-25-2020, 09:36 PM)beechnut79 Wrote:(03-25-2020, 12:11 PM)I David Horn Wrote:(03-24-2020, 11:45 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(03-24-2020, 10:30 PM)beechnut79 Wrote:(03-24-2020, 06:09 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: It's relative. Sometimes and in some places we need more socialism. Sometimes more capitalism. The USA needs more socialism now.
Wasn’t the period between 1945 and 1970 or so a welcome benign hybrid of both?
Yes.
… and no. Remember, this was also the time when we endured the Red Scare, cultural blandness (to the point of nausea) and overbearing oversight of our sexual mores. Economically, the world was pretty good, but economics isn't life. The 2T happened because the conformity was getting too much to bear. Of course, the backlash went too far too, which lead to the neoliberal fantasy we're trying to escape now.
Where the last of the items in your first sentence is concerned, we seem to have returned to said overbearing, especially since first the AIDS scare in the mid-80s through to the #Metoo movement which brought down many once considered heroes. Although we may never totally return to the Scarlet Letter mindset, we are IMO a bit too close for comfort. Anyone having a large sexual resume, commonplace not that many years ago, is now highly looked down upon. I do often wonder if a period of relative hedonism might emerge once the restrictions of this period are lifted, with many over eager to make up for lost time.
Yes I agree with those two comments too. I don't know if we in our current bodies beechnut will see the full return of hedonism likely in the next Awakening starting in the mid-2040s.