Bourgeois Culture

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@Zinhead

I got a chuckle out of this. Compared to the 10’s (WW 1 and Influenza), 20’s (Wall Street Crash), 30’s (Great Depression), and 40’s (WW 2), the 50’s were the first decade for most people living back then that there was no great cataclysm. If you were 50 years old in 1960, the 50’s would have been the only decade of your life to that point that things were normal.

However, the threat of a cataclysm (nuclear war) was widely known and feared at the time.

@Zinhead

Compared to the **60’s/b, and 70’s (Oil Crisis and Stagflation), they look pretty good as well.

As mentioned by another poster, the 1950s did see the beginnings of questioning the old racist segregated social order. But there was still considerable resistance against eliminating various forms of segregation and having equal civil rights for all, which was part of the culture wars in the 1960s.