[root of the trouble] part 1 – changes since the 60s

On 31 July, 2006 13:30, ScotsToryB said… Well, I found you via Tim. So far so good! Reading this between the lines stuff has never been my forte. So, a request: I do see where you are going but have only looked at one other site dealing with the proposition, will you please write a fuller article explaining the reasoning?

So this is dedicated to both ScotsToryB and to Tom Paine who finally provoked me into it.

The jazz age perfectly reflected the moneyed 20s and the Drifters and Temptations reflected the late 50s. But so did Bill Haley and Elvis. The naivety of those days has long gone and since the 60s, there has been:

# The progressive demise of church going and the whole ecumenical language we once employed, talk of parishes and the local vicar and so on. The replacement of traditional ideas in education and the replacement of old textbooks with the new, the promotion of humanistic, man-centred values and deification of the scientific method is almost complete.

# The rise of feminism, somehow at the same time as homosexuality going public. “On the other hand, the rise of feminism and gay rights began in the 1960s and continued into the next few decades.” These were daggers in the heart of the traditional family and have played their part in the explosion in the divorce rate and reduction in the marriage rate.

# The latchkey children, as mothers worked, at first by choice and then by necessity, as the rise of credit turned the parents of partial leisure into two working machines, as aspirations increased, the glittering array of goods and services expanding, the increase in global travel, the increasing sophistication of cars and sound systems, all increasingly paid for by credit.

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