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was 50s America the peak of human civilization? What went wrong?
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was 50s America the peak of human civilization? What went wrong? Was it the [spoiler]socialists[/spoiler]?
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>>14169
no
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>>14169
How would one measure a level of civilisation or decide when it has peaked?
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>>14169
By "peak", you mean constant nuclear war and commie paranoia, then yes.
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In the 50's you had a progressive supreme court making anti-constitutional sweeping judgements

It wasn't a good time
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>>14169

Hell no, there is absolutely no foundation whatsoever behind the blind worship of the decade.
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>>14264

>constant nuclear war

what universe are you from
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peak history was athens

everything afterward was a mistake
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>>14169
>posts about the 50s as the high point of human civilization
>OP pic is from a movie made and based in the 1970s

But yes, the '70s were a pretty awesome decade.
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>>14371
i don't think you read his comment correctly
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>>14400
Daily reminder that everything after the rise of the tyrants was a mistake.
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>>14169

I blame the blacks.
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Humanity was a mistake
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After the Civil Rights Movement that's when blacks were invited into Main Stream Media, and bringing in Black Culture, so mainly it's the blacks. Not trying to be racist, just facts.
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The world died on April 30, 1945.
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>>14577
>just facts

so back it up?
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Anyone who actually lived through the 50's would tell you that it wasn't.
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you watch too much leave it to beaver
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>>14531
This
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>>14616
My Great Granddad always used to tell me "when someone talks about the good old days and going back to them you should ignore them, those days were never good". He was born in the 1920s.
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>>14169
>education methods
>*terrible* life for anyone not born able-modied
>womyns rights, black rights
>no security for the avergy city-born person
>advent of nuclear weaponry
>majority of population believed in scrapload of hoaxes
>still not done with the constant waste of natural resources on the preparation of worldwide war
>>14685
this a hundred times
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