![]() And yet, from a remove of more than a half century, we can see that the 1950s were in fact a high point for American culture-a period when many in the vast middle class aspired to elevate their tastes and were given the means and opportunity to do so. Whatever the excesses of the 1960s might have been, so the argument goes, that decade represented the necessary struggle to free America’s mind-damaged automatons from their captivity at the hands of the Lords of Conformity and Kitsch. It is one of the foundational myths of contemporary liberalism: the idea that American culture in the 1950s was not only stifling in its banality but a subtle form of fascism that constituted a danger to the Republic. ![]()
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