No it is just sour grapes. "It doesn't matter that most people remember it fondly, they shouldn't" gist of the article is ridiculous. Cut me a break.
I will repeat it was peak America. Interstates, television (and the cultural cohesion it briefly engendered), post war confidence, manufacturing boom, steel boom, automobile boom, petroleum boom, and a huge swath of people going from having no to little material security to having a path to security. Nostalgia in this case is thoroughly based in the zeitgeist of the time.
There is no reason it should not be looked as a great time in American history.
Soviets put a satellite up first, but couldn't feed their people and crammed everyone into cinderblock apartments.
Racism has existed since the beginning of time, is rampant today, across all cultures and races. Because we were still struggling with civil rights as a nation is no reason to not celebrate our accomplishments.
I was the child of a mixed marriage and my parents experienced their share of racism. I grew up in a farm town where no one could say my last name correctly even though it is literally spelled out phonetically. I hate racism, but I am strongly averse to viewing history through the lens of race.
I will repeat it was peak America. Interstates, television (and the cultural cohesion it briefly engendered), post war confidence, manufacturing boom, steel boom, automobile boom, petroleum boom, and a huge swath of people going from having no to little material security to having a path to security. Nostalgia in this case is thoroughly based in the zeitgeist of the time.
There is no reason it should not be looked as a great time in American history.
Soviets put a satellite up first, but couldn't feed their people and crammed everyone into cinderblock apartments.
Racism has existed since the beginning of time, is rampant today, across all cultures and races. Because we were still struggling with civil rights as a nation is no reason to not celebrate our accomplishments.
I was the child of a mixed marriage and my parents experienced their share of racism. I grew up in a farm town where no one could say my last name correctly even though it is literally spelled out phonetically. I hate racism, but I am strongly averse to viewing history through the lens of race.