Why do people romanticize the 1950's so much Veeky Forums?

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Rising real wages.

Most people got better off every year. There was the feeling that the future was bright, and it reflected on everything. Now there's only darkness to look forward to.

You don't need it.

Everything you mentioned has existed for centuries.

Yeah, obviously you don't need fast food, but if you are only buying one fry (did they even sell single fries in the 50s or are you taking this from somebody else?) why not make it a long one?

>Basking in the glory of winning WWII
>Very strong economy and economic growth; rising real wages produced optimism and happiness
>War bonds getting repaid allowed many people to buy nice things
>Cheap housing
>Patriotism encouraged to deter Bolshevism
>Last decade of pre-60s "traditional" America

But most importantly, because Boomers grew up in it.

Because a medium fry (and the 50c hamburger) is all that you need.

How much energy can there be in an inch or less of a single fry? Why specify a medium fry? Why get a fry at all if you are only buying one?

Increased economic prosperity led to people advertising more to young people who had disposable income. Then, in the 1970s, companies started selling 1950s nostaliga hard to the then adults who had grown up twenty years earlier (American Graffiti was a huge influence on this; it was huge hit, which made people scramble to cash in). This nostaliga marketing ended up becoming a big part of popular culture of the time because baby boomers were huge demographic, and as a result, children of the 1970s grew up getting nostalgia tripped about the 1950s, too, and the cycle kind of kept repeating itself. Even children growing up as late as the 1990s were exposed to 1950s-nostalgia driven media through things like Nick at Nite.

As a result of that, the exposure most people have to that period of history is television which was focused on presented an incredibly idealized version of that time. It's not like other periods, where the general perception includes a lot of the negative points, like the Great Depression, Vietnam War, or Watergate. So everything thinks it was great, because that's what Happy Days showed.

>have the world handed to you by your parents
>leave your kids with a pile of shit

this
the US was the only modern existing physical plant after WW2. all other industrial heartlands were smoking ruin while ours was in top condition. our currency was the currency of the world, backed by precious metals.
all people really had to do was show up and not burn down their factory or office and success followed.
now that there is real competition Americans are getting anxious and looking back at the good old days when we were the only game in town.

I mainly know about it from the European and Soviet perspectives, but the Thirty Glorious Years from 1945 to 1975 saw absurdly high growth levels, employment, innovation, and equality the likes of which most of humanity has not experienced since. It fed a perspective that humanity had entered a golden age. Then it stopped. We know why it stopped for the Soviets--a crash in oil and vodka sales cut a hole in their budget, which made them print money but not raise prices, meaning black market prices rose but not salaries, meaning everything was dumped on the black market, meaning shortages out the ass in official stores, meaning we revolution now.

Still not clear (to me at least) why the economy flopped everywhere else at the same time as well. Except China I mean, China has been doing great this whole time. Fucking Chinamen stealing our growth rates.

fucking boomers

Glad to see that back in 1955 they had shitty burgers just like we do

They're too old to realize their systems aren't working any more.

Wow

Because America wasn't infested with Cultural Marxism yet.

>God
>Family
>Nation
>Race
>Morals, ethics, values

These were held in high regard. Veterans of WW2 knew what real life was about.

Their children, the baby boomers became the hippies of the 70's and have largely ruined everything. They gave us the millenial SJWs, Commies, Anarchists and regressive Left.

>Cultural Marxism
> regressive Left.

lmao wowwwwwwwwwww
where do you retards find this place???????

t. commie

During the 40s to late 70s China was garbage. It was only after Nixon officially recognized China did China started the whole industrialization process.

Itd not a coincidence that industrialization in China resulted in slowed growth rate of the Western world. Although the economy isn't zero sum game, it's close enough. When China out competed other Western nation in producing cheap shit, Western industries stopped.

>All these righttards ignore that the 1950's was the beginning of the plastification of society which is pretty degenerate.

>the baby boomers became the hippies of the 70's and have largely ruined everything
Uh, no. The beatniks of the 50's ruined everything. All the hippies did was adopt beat culture and actually try to implement it instead of just writing about it.

>these propaganda pictures are a totally accurate representation of life in the 50s

there was still white trash in the 50s
there was still prostitution in the 50s
there was still pornos in the 50s
there was still hookup culture in the 50s
McCarthyism

Maybe you should wait till you get out middleschool to come back here

>that image title

Why?

The years from 1945 to 1979 were awful in the UK. It was a very different experience from the mainland.

This. It wasn't utopia, but it was pretty stable and prosperous. The glorification of the 50s only emerged after the left started demonizing them as an oppressive evil white cispatriarchy where every suburban father was a pedophile and a serial killer, every wife was beaten and on drugs and black were getting lynched on the regular. The fact that the 60s and the 70s were catastrophically awful only strengthened the sentiment.

oh yea sorry I've got a bunch of bait images for when /pol/ leaks and starts making "why r blacks dum" threads

They aren't propaganda, they are ads. You know to sell products and shit, dumbass.

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>rest of the world is a cratered shithole so americans can sell their products at a profit while said countries rebuild themselves.
>americans get butthurt when other people say that the 50's were shit.

>rest of this world a shithole
>somehow still rich enough to buy American products

>americans think that they consumed their own shit and made themselves prosperous.

Well see and pick one.

Why do you leftypol shills think white people shouldn't have pride in their race?

hey dumbass. Products being sold with US money to a rebuilding europe still results in jobs for american citizens.

How could Europe afford all that shit if they were that poor?

This, it's an American thing.

because they were being sold specifically to them?
rebuilding a country is good business.

>le cultutal marxism
you would probably agre alot with Adorno if you bothered to look him upp

>Yurocucks hating America for giving them free shit

>free shit.
>euromonies being used to build american businesses means americans think they are generous.

>Europe somehow becomes a top level consumer market
>while being poor
That's a literal contradiction

Why does Leftypol thinks Veeky Forums is their anti white safespace?

>implying rebuilding infrastructure damaged by the war doesn't provide huge benefits to the manufacturing industry bringing jobs back to the table.

>Eurotrash hates America for repairing their bombed out shitholes
Shoulda just let you starve

yeah, and all that war production you burgers had would have gone to waste
>muh local demand would have met it.

People weren't too shackled by debt to own houses and support their families.

WW2 vets literally invented all the things you hate so much.

Guess what they were the ones who had to fight people who denied baisic human rights. They were the ones who set up the UN, EU and encouraged diversity and globalisation in an effort to stop future world wars.

Its generations after them who didn't have to experience war and hardship the same way who think a return to the "good old days" of facism are a good idea

>McCarthy
>bad

Why does Leftypol hates white people?

last nation that posed an existential threat to my own (white) country was another white state. In fact, they all have been. Why am i meant to be so afraid of non whites?

You have to be 18 to post on this site.

>Stability in the family
>Strong sense of patriotism
>Christianity widespread
>Surge of people into the middle class
>20% of black population becomes middle class
>No welfare
>No non-white immigrants
>Optimism

why would you post that moronic image

>cultural marxism

Yes, I'm sure Europe doesn't remember the reconstruction of the continent fondly

Because there is not nor has there ever been any sort of "unified white nation" in much the same way that there has never been a "unified Arab nation". Proud of being French? Okay, fine. Still stupid because the notion of a French nation is a 18th century invention, but not as absurd as "white nationalism."

>White pride is bad
>but black pride is okay
Fuck your and your anti white bullshit, SJW

>society's morals hadn't decayed to shit
lol my friend people were still naughty and immoral in the 1950s. it was more acceptable to keep it hush hush rather than parade it on tv or, as we do today, the internet. some woman were definitely whores, some men were definitely miscreants. some might argue that crime statistics for rape, theft, and murder were low but that can be retorted with population density and lack of reporting. some people did not want to report wrongdoings for fear they were associated with the wrongdoer or somehow "unlucky" as if they were able to draw out bad energy life. almost like the stereotypes of witches.

the immorality of today's society is much more displayed on MSM than it was in the 50s. that is not to say that american society was degrading, just that we are now facing up to the darkness in our hearts.

"nation" is meaningless. Threats come in all shapes and sized. Non-Whites pose a far greater threat to White nations than White nations pose to one another.

>not propaganda
"Its an ad"

Whew

>. it was more acceptable to keep it hush hush rather than parade it on tv
which means society's morals hadn't decayed to shit
do you even read what you post

a e s t h e t i c

I prefer the (early) '60s though.

Jesus christ dude, read your post back

>there was still prostitution in the 50s
Of course. 1/2 off all men supposedly had visited a prostitute at least once in their lives in the 1950s. The number is in the single digits today. You're showing a case of values dissonance.

Tell that to the slavs from the 30's and see how well it plays out.

Tell the Slavs alive right now that they need to accept mass non white "immigration"

>statistically significant lower crime rates were just because of underreporting!
>they were underreported because they were afraid of voodoo magic!
Is this really what you think?

50's was degenerate as fuck, I wish you retards would stop holding it up as some shining beacon of purity

^This.

Do you realize that people back then do the burgers at home?

Of course fast food burgers, by the cheapest irish in town aren't going to look really good.

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WW2 vets were pill poppers and benzedrine addicts. Meth was legal and OTC before 1959. Beatniks loved to rail speed all day. Mother's little helper was barbiturates.

You are a millennial, speaking of an age you do not understand and cannot understand.

Because another white nation is telling them to
sure you may compare refugees as some sort of late stage tuberculosis, but then you got to view white people as aids

I actually saw part of a documentary from the 50's when they said the exact same thing about the 20's.

>implying Stalin who genocided all of those Slavs was white

You're making shit up, literally. The 20s were viewed as the most degenerate era ever, full of faggots, feminists, drug users, rampant crime, stupid shock value art and general degeneracy. It was the exact opposite of "strong values" era.

>everyone everywhere always had the same (my) views
Stop simplifying history to fit your personal ideology. You're kind is the major source of shittiness in the world today.

No, that was the accepted view everywhere you lying fuck. Whether it was a good thing or a bad thing depended on the individual but it was never contested that it was an age of traditional structures breaking down and massive wave of sexual liberation and women's rights.

Crimes were underreported because everyone was encouraged to look like those dinks in the ads. That meant not having any sort of 'dirty laundry' that the neighbors could gossip about.

>hippies of the 70's
Hippies were mostly a 60s movement. It was dead by 1973.

Literal "Hippies" were a Northern California phenomenon that were basically reduced to a fashion statement by 1968. They were only one part of the "counter culture" which also included Southern California "Freaks" (like Frank Zappa & the Mothers), the Hell's Angels types, the Beats on the East Coast, etc.

>crimes were underreported
Source: your anus.

Christ, California is such a shithole, isn't it? Always giving birth to the most degen shit.

World War II changed a lot of shit, man.
>inb4 muh KGB and (((jews)))

Do people still deny KGB influence? It doesn't even seem that farfetched to me. I'm pretty sure we were trying to pull the same shit on the Russians.

Literally nothing wrong with hippies or drugs

Literally nothing wrong with AIDS and terminal cancer either.

It's certainly plausible that they contributed to civil discontent, but I don't believe the narrative that the 1960s counter-culture was created by them. That reeks of implication that any sort of discontent is illegitimate.

It makes sense if you consider what and when they targeted, which was academia during the 30's, 40's, which would make sense why it took until the 60's to really kick off.