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@Heartiste the 25 years after ww2 were a period when a single income household could actually support a family and send kids to college and own the home, and it wasn’t inevitable that the family would collapse in an apocalyptic fiasco of frivolous divorce
I’ve thought for some time that the demonization of the 50s as (blah blah blah) racist and (blah blah blah) mccarthyite was precisely to disrupt awareness that conditions on certain fundamentals were better, to make sure anyone who wanted things not to suck was made to feel shame for naivete or nostalgia (or the ultimate unredeemable sins of racism and not being a communist)
elementary school kids could walk to school unaccompanied, rather than be transported door to door with security protocols at every step of the way
I’m not sure I know many people old enough to remember such things, I think maybe that’s experience only remembered by guys pushing 70 (and older) now
and our rules want john q normie not only _not_ to demand this, and not to believe it’s possible and not to know it was ever this way, but to be unable to even imagine it
