KARL D. writes:

I thought you might appreciate this article. It’s about a subculture of people into Rockabilly music who live as if it were the 1950s, without those pesky traditional 1950s morals. I have known some Rockabilly folks like the ones pictured in this article, and while they are perfectly nice people, they are almost all howling liberals. They surround themselves with all the fashions, furnishings and gadgets of the 50s and will even use the lingo. But that’s where it stops. It is all done with a sense of irony. But isn’t that what America has become now? I don’t quite know how to put it? And I am not speaking specifically about these Rockabilly people. It’s like taking the authentic, making in inauthentic, and then either celebrating its inauthenticity with a wink, or worse yet, claiming it to indeed be authentic. New York City has become this way. A caricature or museum of what it once was for all the tourists and new wealthy wannabe New Yorkers. But that’s liberalism in a nutshell, isn’t it? A never ending game of dress up with no intellectual, religious or philosophical core at its center. It’s all candy coating or Hollywood America. Or like Gertrude Stein said, “There is no there there.”

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Lydia Sherman writes:

People have embraced Victorian culture in the same nostalgic fashion. They adore the architecture of the 1800’s and surround themselves with the furnishings and paraphernalia of the era. Magazines feature the owners on the front porches of the beautiful Queen Anne homes, dressed in their modern skivvies and flip-flops. While the Victorian afficionados eagerly embrace all material things Victorian, they live in stark contrast to Victorian values.

James P. writes:

Somehow I doubt that people in the 1950s had those freakish arm tattoos like the guy in the third picture from the top.

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