For editing: this has my voice appear more, but lacks the strong points that might be coming together more in the previous one. Like the previous one, it needs to be bolstered with strong evidence to support claims, but also as jumping off points to create the blog feel.
War, the ever present threat. Something that is so much second nature to humans it feels that it’s always in discussion and thought. Yet the ideas revolving around war have changed so much since the decades past and now. Exploring this connection in more vivid detail nets may help us define the socital factors that affect how we carry it out and view it overall.
It was the 1950s, WW2 had ended and many former soldiers had come home and made the start of the nuclear family. The mindset was that participating in the war was serving your country, you were proud of it and praised for it. It was the biggest of all the big deals. This mindset would however waver as time drew on. The Korean war, Vietnam, Iraq, even the cold war. These wars introduced a new, contemporary mindset. American society has become disallusioned by all these engagements. No longer is there honor and justice, war is war, and as such the discussion of it feels like one. The earlier decades provided this set path to success, the education, the military, the family, the life. Now I’m not painting war as a good thing, but the admirable participation of war has waned as the reasons for fighting have become more bureacratic and indirect. It changes the entire landscape of both adult and young life, this is also painted well in Rebel without a cause. The lack of global issue that connotes a greater worldview can start to be percieved in the more reckless abandon some of the characters exhibit (source + analysis). This makes more sense when note is taken that the movie premiered as the admirable war mindset begins to wane with the start of the Korean war, a little before hand. This idea of rebellious, devil-may-care life style has also shown its signs in the writing of On the Road. As the mindset of a fighting for your country loses its value, so have the people’s desires to live under the country’s ideals. This can be argued as a key factor in the rise of the beat generation, along with the greater need for the nuclear family outcome to be reaffirmed for tv viewers every day of the week. Many US demographics are affected by this change in mindset and these are just a few examples of how that has affected western media overall in the 1950s
Rebel without a cause
Halberstam timeline
Other strong sources
