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It depends on what you might call moral and immoral. There were plenty of immoral things going on before 1955, but were not really thought of as such.
By the way, the Beatnik era was in the 1950s. Were there no immoral things going on then?
I think the big difference is that immorality was around but was not accepted by Society until the '60's bunch started each succeeding generation down the road to total acceptance of one-night stands, combined-gender dorms at University/College institutions, etc., etc. That's just the tip of the iceberg, but our younger generations of today don't seem to have moral standards which are necessary to raise the next generation to have a good and stable life.
Is this about America or the representatives of America, i.e., the US Government? Because the CIA and the government has acted very immorally for years and years and justified it as being in the best interests of the country. More moral? Hardly. More blinders on--definitely!!!
It depends. We are more moral about some things now, and less moral about other things now. Across the board, I think the collapse of close family ties hurts us more than being "less moral" than before. Family and even community ties were much stronger then.
It depends. We are more moral about some things now, and less moral about other things now. Across the board, I think the collapse of close family ties hurts us more than being "less moral" than before. Family and even community ties were much stronger then.
Yes, but it does have the completely coincidental and wholly unintended side effect of increasing support for the Democrats.
Single mothers, legalized drugs, no prison sentences for nonviolent crimes, freely available abortion, passing out birth control to children, no-fault divorce, etc - all supported by the Democrat party in their time. All while claiming they were supporting people's freedom. All later found to directly lead to increased drug use, delinquency, depression, and crime by children. And then who appears to champion more government involvement to deal with all these problems affecting the poor children? Why, it's the Democrat party. Right there to blame the conservative backward morality for those problems. And when it is pointed out that all these problems can be traced directly back to left wing policies from the 60's and early 70s? Well, then it's time to bring up how racism was so bad back then and distract all attention from the other social ills.
It's all very convenient. It's a nice, neat circular logic pattern that leaves Democrats as completely blameless and as crusading heroes at every turn.
I think the big difference is that immorality was around but was not accepted by Society until the '60's bunch started each succeeding generation down the road to total acceptance of one-night stands, combined-gender dorms at University/College institutions, etc., etc.
most of the disastrous moves that you said only happened in the late 60's
in the '68 for example Barnard College kicked someone out for living off campus with a boy, the next year they had coed dorms
human nature remains unchanged from the earliets times. It is technology that has changed to reveal what had alwys been kept in closets with the skeletons.
Technology has cleared the fog from the mirror for a better look.
most of the disastrous moves that you said only happened in the late 60's
in the '68 for example Barnard College kicked someone out for living off campus with a boy, the next year they had coed dorms
I'm in favor of dorm rooms being either male or female. Males have male roommates, females having female roommates, that is the for the dorms. If a student is living off campus, in their own place, who they live with is their own business, not the university's. Said student is paying for school and not living on campus, so the university should have no say in what that student does off campus.
I'm in favor of dorm rooms being either male or female. Males have male roommates, females having female roommates, that is the for the dorms. If a student is living off campus, in their own place, who they live with is their own business, not the university's. Said student is paying for school and not living on campus, so the university should have no say in what that student does off campus.
They had coed dorms back when I was in college, which was the early 1970s (bbut not coed dorm rooms). I think the first cored dorm floor at my school opened up in 1970 or 1971 (not sure because I didn't get there till 1972 myself, and it was in existence by then but still a fairly new thing). Men and women didn't room together, though; there were men and women on the same floor, but only members of the same sex could be roommates (officially, anyway). My husband (to be) was one of the people who lived on that floor the very first year, and he has very fond memories of it. He says it was more of a brother/sister kind of atmosphere than some kind of steamy sex scene.
The year my hubby lived on the coed floor, it was a brand new thing, really kind of an experiment. But it went well, and as time went on, coed housing became more and more common on that campus. I moved out of the dorms myself in 1973, and I have no idea what percentage of the housing is coed now, but I'd bet most, if not all. It's really no big deal, and it wasn't a big deal, even all the way back in the 1970s.
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