English-speaking peoples still stand together against tyranny

Daily Telegraph ^ | September 23, 2006 | Andrew Roberts

[kjo]

I wish it were still 1956. That year was the peak of American and Western civilization. Just before the terrible sixties hit. If only we could go back. Men were men, women were women, gays were illegal, abortion was in the back alleys where it belonged. People still went to church on Sundays.

It is a very good thing that the color line is gone; but beyond that the sixties threw out the baby with the bathwater. A huge, huge, cultural error.

[MARKUSPRIME]

Yep.

[GSlob]

Samuel Huntington in his "Clash" used the overlap between religions and [sociologically understood] cultures for classification purposes - he used religion as a good label for a sociologically distinct entity - Huntingtonian civilization. Since the language is a form in which people think of, and see, the world [including its sociological aspects], it would be interesting to see whether a somewhat similar classification is possible using the language as a label, possibly together with religion.
Ideally, of course, one needs to dispense with labeling by accidentals and go to the root - sociological classification proper. Such classification could be augmented by other parameters [say: "intrinsically authoritarian type with the state claiming prmacy over....; as reflected to the .... extents in the .... religious and .... language practices"].

[GSlob]

prmacy = primacy

[Democratshavenobrains]

Unfortunately, the English Speaking leftists are doing their usual French/German emulation.

[headsonpikes]

The automobiles rocked, also.

[dljordan]

Gee, maybe we can band together and defeat Mexico.

[VOA]

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
(snip)
A J P Taylor considered that "it is one of the wisest, most exciting works
of history ever written".

Which probably explains why I only learned of it after stumbling across it
in the reference section at the library of the University of Central Oklahoma.
(that's the way modern high schools work)

At least some excerpts of it should be required reading in high school
history classes.

[sushiman]

It all Jack Kerouac's fault ! ; )

[palmer]

I wish it were still 1956. That year was the peak of American and Western civilization.

Our men had come back from WWII, gotten their bachelors degrees and out-invented and out-created the rest of the world.

[OldPossum]

I agree. Aside from the racial bigotry of that time, America was a great place to live. Everything became unhinged with the 60's.

[Snickersnee]

Wait a minute -- 1956 wasn't all beer and skittles. I was there! The French, Brits and Israelis took the Suez Canal back from a nasty Baathist disctator, and Eisenhower and Dulles made them give it back to him. In 1956, the Hungarians rose up after years of being urged to do so by the VOA and CIA and what did we do? Nothing. We watched the Red Army squash them.

[blam]

But, we were kids then.

[Cobra64]

[Cobra64]

Ditto that.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

The 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago was the actual point of no return, IMO

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I'm with you. Also, with European and Asian economies wrecked and China not yet a manufacturing powerhouse, the U.S. dominated with world economy. College educations skyrocketed with the GI Bill, leading to even great U.S. dominance.

[chipengineer]

>I wish it were still 1956.

We were also under the threat of mutual nuclear annihilation from the Soviet Union...

I like 2006 beter.

[DeweyCA]

I was thinking about this earlier today: the progeny of Great Britain (USA, Australia, Canada) along with the UK are the main powers who are fighting the evil in Afghanistan, and Iraq. Yes, I know that the Poles and others are helping, but Judeo-Christian democratic culture that came out of the UK has served the world well. A salute to the Brits.