Did 1968 Win The Culture War? Victor Davis Hanson | Investor's Business Daily
"Fifty years ago this year, the '60s revolution sought to overturn U.S. customs, traditions, ideology and politics.
The '60s radicals eventually grew older, cut their hair and joined the establishment.
...But
maybe the '60s, not the silent majority, won out after all.
The world a half-century later looks a lot more like 1968 and what followed than what preceded it.
Most of the political and cultural agenda from that turbulent period — both the advances and the regressions — has
long been institutionalized.
...Yet lifestyles have been radically altered — and often not for the good.
Before the late '60s, most Americans married before having children; afterward, not so much.
One-parent households are now far more common.
..
.Big-screen romance is often no longer about courtship, romance and mystery, but lots of
on-screen sex.
Promiscuity and hookups were redefined in the '60s as norms.
They are now, too — but with lots of ensuing psychological, social and cultural damage.
...The campus instead became a center of deductive progressive activism.
Updated studies courses now train students to think politically correctly rather than empirically.
Other pernicious '60s ideas survived and got worse.
The notion of shouting out in campus free-speech zones now means shouting down those with whom students disagree.
...Now,
Americans increasingly self-select geographically.
...The blue-state coasts seek to keep the spirit of the '60s alive with hip urban culture, bigger government, higher taxes, greater emphasis on identity politics — and a constant effort to radically change America.
So who won the '60s?
...But turn on the television, watch a movie or an NFL game, listen to popular music, visit a campus, notice how crowds dress and speak, walk down a sidewalk in a major city, and examine the behavior of our celebrities and political class:
It's hard not to conclude that the '60s won out."
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