What, you don't miss the 1950's?

You know, when wimmen and colored people knew their place?
When white men made all the decisions, and didn't have to work with, socialize with, or put up with anyone but other white men?
When children knew their place was to shut up and glorify their parents with their perfect behavior, and if they didn't they'd be beaten to within an inch of their lives? When a wife didn't dare work outside the house, and made sure dinner was on the table when hubby got home, and if he wanted sex, she had no choice but to comply?

Come on, that was *the best!* Doesn't everybody want to take that time, and make the present just like it?

:)

I think I grew up in the 1950's from what you just described.

So who exactly is trying to recreate the past? Mormonism certainly doesn't seem to be doing that. They are just trying desperately to hold the house of cards together.

As a bit of a historian, I see my task as presenting an accurate view of the past (and I make no pretense of absolute objectivity), not recreating it.

#What Cheryl said above as well

It's about an honest education, seriously.



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as well as others I'm not going to mention.

People like this believe there is some mythical time in the past when everything was perfect and there weren't any problems.

So, to solve what they see are the ills of the modern world or fear changing social attitudes that they don't like, their solution is to try and recreate the society of this past "golden age" -- not in terms of science and technology, but in social mores, laws, population, and so on. If you don't want this, they don't care. They are going to do it anyway whether you like it or not.

It's the same as the cargo cults false correlation between parading round in old WW2 uniforms and equipment thinking that if they do that and build an airstrip the planes will return from the sky bearing wonderful things again. If it doesn't happen, then they think they did something wrong or forgot a step or didn't recreate the WW2 airfield properly. You can't tell them it won't happen. They just believe it will.

I don't care for most evangelists, and Islamic fundamentalists terrify me, but that's a false analogy.

/cabdriver philosopher voice off

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> I don't care for most evangelists, and Islamic
> fundamentalists terrify me, but that's a false
> analogy.
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> /cabdriver philosopher voice off


The worst, of course, are evangelists for the AA fai+h

as the fundamentalists. Only the tactics are different. They use indirect violence instead of terrorism.

I didn't understand the question but I often relive the past to process it differently.