If you can’t see that our nation is in moral decline, what are you fighting to defend, our right to listen to thrash?
You are picking and choosing quite a strange array of time periods to point to, but the label you chose for each time period don’t point to a moral base. The closest you came was “Puritan,” and the fact that you chose that label indicates that you really don’t know much about the Puritans other than what your teachers have programmed you to think. The Puritans were actually a pretty fun bunch who didn’t mind drinking, lewdness, and having a wild time. They were “pure” in their interpretation of Biblical teaching.
It sounds like you believe the lie that Revisionist Historians have been preaching that American tradition is evil. I’d suggest “Patriot’s History of the US” and “the Politically Incorrect Guide to American History” if you’d like to read some history books that actually paint us as having a pretty good track record.
By the way, I’d go for the gold-rush era of capitalism in a heartbeat. Economically, we were far better-off under “Laisse Faire” (though there was not much that was actually hands-off about it) economics, and it was a far better banking system.
But I’d also go back to a time period to when pop culture was not so blatantly decadent. I know the Great Generation was not perfect, but I’d much rather go to a Glenn Miller concert than a Pearl Jam concert. Yes, the people had their faults and weaknesses, but we made a joint effort to shame wrongful behavior and praise virtuous behavior. When we allowed the Leftists to destroy the concept of right and wrong and of shame and praise, we allowed them to dictate the new right and wrong.
Hahahaha. ROTF
Thanks for the laugh.
Chalk up one vote from me on this. Ft. Worth's Tex Beneke warm voice and his playfulness with the Modernaires are wonderful entertainment.
I never cared much for Benny Goodman's jazzy music -- too abrasive to my ears. My tastes of that era's music tend toward the Vaughn Monroe/Glenn Miller style, which was and is sometimes criticized as being ``commercial''. Well, that's plus in book! :-)
As as for Adam Lambert -- didn't even know who he was until I saw him mentioned in this thread. I may be the last person in the world in the world who has never seen ``American Idol''. Aside from news and sports, the only television program I watch is ``24''.