Well, I never knew to hold my tongue before, why start now? You may not agree with me here... but it's my viewpoint and I have to express it.
That's another one of those dumb quotes by people who think the modern era is so horrible and corrupted. Interestingly enough they usually uphold the 1950's as an era of greatness and "morality," obviously the result of nostalgia and selective amnesia. The 50's were fine, if you were a middle-class white male, and you were still just a sheep then. The conformity of that time was based on the dominance, suppression, and degredation of blacks, women, homosexuals, radicals, non-capitalists, anyone else who wasn't white, foreigners... Yeah, a time I'd really want to live in.
Before then was hardly beneficial, either. There was a big world wide war in the 40's. Did I mention in America they put those of Japanese descent into detention camps? That's not to mention concentartion camps in Europe. Or the release of the bomb over Japan--which, though may not have been unnecessary, still hardly points to a superior era--or the Japanese testing of the Plague Flea Bomb on China. Then there was the depression before then, and oh yes, another world war over something as stupid as the assasssination of a noble in his own country. And at the turn of the century, there was still child labor in the United States--not to mention even more massive problems of hate. Actually, I'd say hatred is far, far less prevalent now.
Let's look further back. Do you truly believe it was any better during the Roman Empire? The Assyrian Empire? The Mongol Empire? The European conquest of... /the planet?/ (Kill everything that isn't white!) The destruction of innumerable cultures. The genocides of the Arawaks by Columbus' tribute system.
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Date: 2002-07-04 04:57 pm (UTC)That's another one of those dumb quotes by people who think the modern era is so horrible and corrupted. Interestingly enough they usually uphold the 1950's as an era of greatness and "morality," obviously the result of nostalgia and selective amnesia. The 50's were fine, if you were a middle-class white male, and you were still just a sheep then. The conformity of that time was based on the dominance, suppression, and degredation of blacks, women, homosexuals, radicals, non-capitalists, anyone else who wasn't white, foreigners... Yeah, a time I'd really want to live in.
Before then was hardly beneficial, either. There was a big world wide war in the 40's. Did I mention in America they put those of Japanese descent into detention camps? That's not to mention concentartion camps in Europe. Or the release of the bomb over Japan--which, though may not have been unnecessary, still hardly points to a superior era--or the Japanese testing of the Plague Flea Bomb on China. Then there was the depression before then, and oh yes, another world war over something as stupid as the assasssination of a noble in his own country. And at the turn of the century, there was still child labor in the United States--not to mention even more massive problems of hate. Actually, I'd say hatred is far, far less prevalent now.
Let's look further back. Do you truly believe it was any better during the Roman Empire? The Assyrian Empire? The Mongol Empire? The European conquest of... /the planet?/ (Kill everything that isn't white!) The destruction of innumerable cultures. The genocides of the Arawaks by Columbus' tribute system.
Hrm? Have I said enough?