How could Western society go from ultra conformist in the 1950s to completely anti-conformist in only 10 years? The change in society from the 50s to the 60s has to be the biggest societal change in only 10 years in all of Western history. Was there 1 event that caused this?
>>1348320
College indoctrination. It is at a point where the human mind is very impressionable but very egotistical at the same time.
>completely anti-conformist
If you didn't get the memo: The 60s counterculture movement failed miserably and started the war on drugs.
>>1348320
I can think of one issue.
The war was getting pretty scary and, while the commies were still considered bad guys, propaganda couldn't put enough of a positive spin on USA intervention in Vietnam to make it all seem black and white, with USA as the heroes.
>>1348320
The "ultra-conformity" was itself the cause. Raise people in bullshit and don't enforce it with authoritarian violence, and kids will rebel as soon as they come of age. There is a similar (but not as great) rebellion of kids raised in the PC era.
Life sucked and, like fools, young Americans thought they could change that. However, they failed to realize that it doesn't get any better.
>>1348320
'Nam.
The gov could have buried their shit but mishandled it.
The people knew that America was the hero that stopped the nazis and now fights the commies but that wasnt so simple now.
US gov did all sort of shady shit in the 60's including controlled opposition.
This is getting /x/-y but the only way the public opinion could have changed so rapidly without any resistance by the goverment could only mean that they were behind it.
>>1348320
Some sociologists theorize that radical changes like this may be caused by a phenomenon known as a "Youth Bulge." Excess amounts of young people who cannot find a social niche often demand radical systemic change.
young people deciding that it'd be really cool to fuck everything up
mass media and prosperity reaching the middle classes, it really began in the 20s, though with some hiccups like the great depression and ww2
>>1348320
Social engineering, only takes a generation to drastically reshape a society
They're still conformist, the paradigm shifted decades ago.
>>1348320
50s = wartime propaganda still in head
60s = laxed policies/propaganda led to critical insight
70s = backlash against based off of this new insight
80s = calming down the effects of the backlash and new generation starts up
90s = new generation creates optimisim
00s = optimism quickly led to fall with the war draining most of the resources
10s = war weary and recovering from war, economy starts recovering slowly
20s = new generation with optimism
30s = matured new generation with optimism leads to growth
40s = optimism leads to overextension and then fall due to some event
50s = fall back event
etc
This is the history and future
>>1348372
>started the war on drugs
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>>1348320
A combination of drugs, rock and roll, and Vietnam
>>1348372
The war on drugs started in the early 20th when cotton firms started lobbying against hemp fibers. They used the ol' perfidious Mexican smoking that evil reefer, getting ideas of white lady rape in his head from it.
All of it seems familiar, really.
>>1348320
>Western society go from ultra conformist in the 1950s
Western society wasn't ultra-conformist in the 1950s, it's just that the radicalism of the 1960s is better recorded and also eventually entered the mainstream. And I'm not just talking about Europe, which most definitely wasn't ultra-conformist, even the U.S. were anything but at the time.
In all honesty, I think it's overexposure. "In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked at as something shocking."
People conformed because they feared beinh different. Then, when others came out with their differing ideas, others thought, "I'm not the only one." I blame the hippies.
Things like sexwere never discussed in the open, but with media came edginess. A story about a woman beating a man dressed as a Snickers bar gets more attention than the presidential debate.
>>1348320
>The change in society from the 50s to the 60s has to be the biggest societal change in only 10 years in all of Western history.
>>1348320
Why do the 50's always look comfy as fuck?
>>1348463
This. It was a long term trend of people seeking greater social freedom from Judeo-Christian norms due to higher standards of living and more disposable income.
>>1348320
The wide-spread adoption of television
>>1348320
What makes modern society anti-conformist? It looks pretty conformist and apathic to me once you sratch the inaignificant mask of so called "rebellion".
>>1348320
It's still conformist. Just in a different, stupider way.
>>1349405
You mean the same device that Russians call an "idiot box"on account of the sheer mass of unadulterated propaganda it shovels?
The fact that somebody might think we're an exception when we have shit like The American Heroes channel, and the shitshow that is syndicated news networks; is proof that it's working.
>>1349422
desu not a lot of people or at least not the majority of Americans watch ACH. Although a lot of people do watch degenerate garbage like Jersey shore which whittle the mind.
World War Two made us non-conformist. It taught us that disobedience can be a virtue, but obedience never, ever is.
