When people talk about "50s America" it feels like they often also include the early-mid 60s, or even non-hippie parts of the late 60s. But then others say the 70s were already starting in 1968-69 with pessimism setting in.
>>18455088Because early to mid 60s still fits the 50s culture they're referring to.
>>18455088Pessimism was already starting to set in by the 1950s. Red scare, Soviets beating the US to Space, Korean War taking its toll, the Eisenhower Recession etc. Honestly, the very existence of McCarthy kind of disproves this idea that the 50s were a culturally homogeneous time. If everyone was as culturally homogeneous as fans of this decade claim they were, then communist witch hunts simply wouldn't be necessary now would they?
>>18455088Countercultural youth has existed since the 1920s. It's just that "young people culture" wasn't really a packaged and labelled form of media yet.
>>18455103There was always existential dread lurking beneath the “smiling Coca Cola ads” 50s, and not just because of the current events you listed. Adults had grown up with the Great Depression and an apocalyptic world war and were grateful to have that suburban shitbox and a refrigerator full of goyslop, knowing how things might turn hellish at any moment.
>>18455457>goyslop in the 1950sAh yes and America turned 40% brown when they declared independence as well.
>>18455088You forgot about the Beatniks.
>>18455088Never heard the phrase The Long 50s? Basically the idea that the 50s actually ended with the assasination of JFK.But anyway its all just made up timeframes to suit any given point being made, there is nothing real about it
>>18455088The real golden age of America was 1983-2014 with the peak being 1994-2007.
>>184558251999 was in fact the absolute pinnacle
>>18455580Post WWII was a time of increasingly processed foods, frozen dinners and the rise of fast food chains. Americans who remembered the depression and WWII food rationing embraced the convenience and illusion of abundance. Early celebrity chefs like Julia Child and the Galloping Gourmet tried to get housewives to cook real food again and it would be years before foodie culture steered affluent and hip people away from slop.
>>18455825The peak of all western liberal civilization was 1991-2007. It's over now.
>>18455580You think they didn't have processed foods in the 50s? My grandparents almost exclusively ate canned food. You faggots really do just look at hot dog advertisements and let your schizophrenia fill in the blanks.
>>18455821>the 50s actually ended with the assasination of JFK.True but it feels like people also kind of include 1964-1966 (pre-Summer of Love).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_76y6GG4tAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te51eVrFWEchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jtokmp8zoE
