Is DU a Liberal Message Board?

[BainsBane]

110. I must have missed the documentation of data mining from the 1950s

or the ability to collect every phone call. We haven't gone backward. Time doesn't turn backward, and history does not repeat itself, trite sayings to the contrary. No one had conversations with each other over the internet in the 1950s. Technology makes an enormous difference in society.

I think part of why people want to turn back to the 1960s because they want to recapture their youth. It's a phenomenon as old as time itself. While understandable in some ways, it is an exclusionary mindset. As much as baby boomers may think themselves center of the universe, it is less and less so every day.

I won't go back to a period when gay Americans had no rights or when women or people of color didn't have equal rights to work under the law. I don't accept a version of diversity that accepts subaltern groups only if they act and think like the dominant culture.
I know some here are nostalgic for that period. The hostility that toward perspectives of people of color and feminists reveals as much. In the end, it all amounts to nothing. They an rail on the intertubes all they want, but they can't succeed in turning the clock back, no matter how hard they try.

It's useful to have my theory confirmed though. I've been mulling it around for a while and it seems that it may have some truth to it.