Nightly reminder that ~1914 was the high point of western civilization

Nightly reminder that ~1914 was the high point of western civilization

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Wow what a photo and the recolor adds to it. Looks surrealistic. Also checked SHADILAY.

Circling the drain now, sadly.

where did everything go so wrong?

>was

Checked

>you will never be a 12-year-old shoe cleaner

The cities in this country used to be so beautiful and well made. Now its a dick measuring contest to see who can fit the most bankers in the highest skyscraper handing out gibs to neanderthals.

checked but wrong

Karl Terzaghi hadn't published his Geotechnical foundings yet

Most infrastructure was literally grounded in instability.

What would you be doing right now if it was 1914?

Not enjoying shitposting that's for sure.

Fucking Serbian niggers should be shot

DINDU NUFFIN

1960s America was the peak of human civilization. After that, 1970 and onward was the downfall of America and the rest of the world.

Liberalism

Quality digits. Anyway, that picture is very nice, but what you are not seeing is the squalor living in the alleyways and shantys. Poverty was rampant then. A better life, for most it was not.

Back then you did have to be poor, hard work and saving actually got you somewhere. Unless you were stupid or Irish.

I'd be dead from some easily curable disease.

Honestly, this looks earlier than 1914. This looks like the mid-1900s.

>racism
>bigotry
>sexism
>homophobia
>barley any safety regulations
>anti-semitism
I don't know if you realized but I'm a homosexual, this kind of shit scares the fuck out of me.

And now we've destroyed civilization so that you can suck dick in peace.

Reminder that 1969 was the height of Western Civilization.
>1965 - the muds vote themselves "equal rights"
>1969 - Apollo moon landing
>1970+ goddamned boomers fuck our shit up

And a lot of people did, that is for sure.

((canada edution))

earlier>later

and then infighting ruined everything :(

60s were already well into degeneracy.

>GDP is higher than ever
>Racial tensions almost none-existent
>Most peaceful time in history
>Quality of life never been higher

>destroyed civilization

Pick the first 5 or the 6th.

did jeans ruin this country? srs question, they all look sharp as fuck, no jeans.

also jeans fucking rock. saw that pair of levis from like the 1860s? i got a pair thats 10 years old, amazing pair of jeans, and the denim is like silky soft now.

crazy how architecture went to shit. "modern art" and modern architecture sucks. bunch of bland soviet looking shit.

Architecture back then sucked ass it looked like fucking 1700s Europe. Old art is shit with no creativity or culture.

Women all wearing dresses, that's a huge plus in my book.

>leafistan
>fag

Checks out

Imagine Sup Forums...

Imagine you're sitting at your desk and close you eyes for just a second. Then you feel some hands on you, pulling you up. Suddenly the din of a crowded street fills your ears as people ask if you're okay. You open your eyes and see you're there, in the picture. You stand and white faces surround you, asking if you're alright. They point towards a buggy driver, and say that man almost hit you and you fell over. You look down and see a well made, wool three piece suit is on your body. It's warm outside, but not hot. You can't speak, can't seem to find the words, but you smile and the people who helped you say they need to go. Now you're alone on the street, surrounded by people in the same clothes as you bustling about the city streets. You reach for your wallet and find it, full of cash (over $500) and a business card with your name on it. You own a bar and from the card you find your shop. You unlock the front door and head inside with a key that was in a front pocket. Upstairs is a nicely furnished apartment. Nothing fancy, but the bed is nice, and you find your safe. You have no idea what the combo could be, so you try your birthday and it opens. Inside is well over $10,000 in cash and lots of gold pieces. You head to the desk in the corner and see a day planner. You flip it open and recognize your handwriting all over it. The last day that was written in is April 19, 1914, which you assume is today.

What do you do first, Sup Forums?

Back then, was it a dick measuring contest to see who could make theirs the most pretty?

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postmodernism

Nice counting.

That the average pleb enjoys a higher quality of life does not negate the fact that the West is in long term decline, which will ultimately end in collapse.

>materialism

Disgusting desu

Shoot myself in the head.

Quality has only been going up

Oh I'm sorry that we value ACTUALLY material items instead of mystical spiritual bullshit that literally doesn't have ANY impact in our world. You and your kind are disgusting.

Gain the ear of important leaders by convincing them that you're from the future, by relating things only someone from the future could know. Explain what's going to happen. Stop it.

>1914
yesssssss it really was goyim.

my grandpappy told me about all the good scams he pulled on u goyim.

Learn German, move to Germany, tell Hitler that I'm from the future and he better not mess with Russia.

>boasting about materialism

one day you'll learn what matters

MUH ARYAN RACE

Lol

No, you're looking at Victorian architecture, with an ear towards "modern" tenement efficiency, so it's not cutting-edge. The subtext of the Victorian era is all there, though.

If you have the opportunity, take an art history course at college, which should have architectural history as part of its curriculum. It's really fascinating stuff.

Look at that picture.
> No niggers
> No coincidence

No I mean all architecture before the 1800s, that is bad.

Oh, man. Imagine if Hitler had sued for peace in 1940.

1914 was close but actually it was the 50s in america

>the post war exuberance and economic recovery
>traditional values still held true
>any working man could afford a house a car and a family
>the degeneracy of the 60s was still some years away

yeah cholera without anitbiotics was AMAZING

And yet our share of world wealth has dropped precipitously since the end of the second world war, racial tensions are tearing apart our society, and our rivals are circling for the kill as they see us stumbling. We burned through all the wealth generated by our ancestors and are now paying for our unsustainable welfare states on credit.

Material prosperity is an illusion, leaf.

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don't answer to leafs
don't talk to leafs
don't give ideas to leafs

>"Leftist" defends mindless consumerism

Good goy. Have yourself a few shekels to buy the new iPhone 7. It's worlds better than the 6!

Nice straw man

>society is without morals and cultural cohesion but check out this cool iPhone!

Desu we deserve to get conquered by muslims

>women voting

Pre WWI is better just for that

>And yet our share of world wealth has dropped precipitously since the end of the second world war,
Yeah that's because they are advancing too, the whole world is getting better just at different rates.

>racial tensions are tearing apart our society
Racism doesn't exist anymore outside of stormfront and Mongolian imageboards. Not a single motherfucker out there gives a fuck about race anymore unless they are going to bitch about racism

>and our rivals are circling for the kill as they see us stumbling
You mean ISIS? A bunch of goatfuckers? LOL the U.S military could blow them away within weeks.

>We burned through all the wealth generated by our ancestors and are now paying for our unsustainable welfare states on credit.
Except GDP is literally higher than EVER. THe U.S has never been in a better situation.

>herpes

>Jews want to rule us by making our lives rich with actual wealth while Adolf Shitler rewards us "spiritually" with "honour" and "pride" and other make belief shit.

Yeaaah I think I'll make my pick

Except our society has more morals today than ever before. Wife-beating is frowned upon, bullying is considered wrong, and the whole "weak fear strong" mentality is dying. In the 1920s gangsters were glorified and violence was considered the norm.

>American education
the eternal kraut is responsible for everything.

Burger education everyone

>and the rest of the world
explain

I can't tell if you're being serious in this post, or just shitposting on purpose to troll.

If you are being serious though, I'd ask you to come back to reality.

-We had power, and didn't have to give it up. They're advancing because we pumped money into them, because we want them to make our iPhones cheaper.
-Racism elected Donald Trump. The Democrats' campaign was largely based on making brown people fear white people. Race is what we're all thinking about.
-China. Russia.
-The rich have gotten richer. Our debt has exploded. We're importing migrants to pay the debts our aging population won't be able to pay.

Everyone on this site is trolling, I'm the only one trying to be reasonable

>We had power, and didn't have to give it up. They're advancing because we pumped money into them, because we want them to make our iPhones cheaper.
Why do you want "power"? All it does is cost you a ton of money in military might

>Racism elected Donald Trump
Trump hates racism though. He denounced the alt-right

>China. Russia.
China is an alley, they make all our iphones and computers, Russia did nothing wrong to the U.S

>The rich have gotten richer
You can blame Reagan for that

>Our debt has exploded. We're importing migrants to pay the debts our aging population won't be able to pay.
National debt-GDP ratio is lower than when FDR left office.

>implying that those two things are mutually exclusive

Hitler transcended the traditional left/right divide, as do most Sup Forumsacks nowadays. You still think this is about conservative vs. liberal when it's actually about globalism vs. nationalism. I'll take national sovereignty and social homogeneity/cohesiveness over the subversive kikes' aims at a corrupt one-world government anyway.

>what is the impending US debt crisis
>what is the impending Chinese housing collapse
>what is the impending mass migration of ~30 million illiterate, mostly Islamic West Africans when climate change destroys their countries

People were living real high in the 1920s, to. Tough times are ahead of us, and we don't need to exacerbate the problem by importing a million barbarians into our midst.

Consumerism and moral-relativism are destroying the West. You just won't see the aftermath for a decade.

I'm an anarcho-syndicalist, we see nationalists the same as you see you globalists. Trying to unite people who shouldn't be united. Why should nationalism be applied, why no regionalism? Or countyism? Or familism? Why can't the unit keep getting smaller and smaller. The "we're all one nation" is the same argument as "we're all one planet"

1952

>Trump denounced the alt-right

Yet his chief strategist is considered to be the movement's top media head. He only denounced it to get the lügenpresse off his back.

>what is the impending US debt crisis
Conservative fear-mongering

>what is the impending Chinese housing collapse
A failure of capitalism, however it will correct itself like it corrected 2008. It won't be the end of the world

>what is the impending mass migration of ~30 million illiterate, mostly Islamic West Africans when climate change destroys their countries
Most are educated, besides our economy can adapt to them, expanding the money supply should be able to fill in the space

Everyone knows that

>Except our society has more morals today than ever before

No you dumb leaf. What's changed is society's ideas of morality. We've gone backwards in many respects.

Steve Bannon is a civic nationalist who hasn't said a single alt-right thing. He said Breitbart is the "news of the alt-right", doesn't mean he believes that shit, just that he wants to make money off supplying news

Does that mean that the heat of eastern civilization was Russia in 1914?

Old morality
>Wife-beating
>literal privilege was good (born-wealth was considered high status)
>Beating the shit out of people was considered good
>child abuse was common

I think we advanced a lot

No we're talking about the West moron

Alright, I can smell leafposting when I see it

>Quality is going up
Where?
If you haven't noticed, European nations that used to be world super powers are now close to being third world shitholes. Canada is on the brink of economic crisis and about to enter a decade with no growth expected at all.
America is more divided than any point since the civil war.
You can distract yourself though so no worries, right fag?

No AC

The first two are not worth responding to.

3) pic related
4) What about household debt? And if anything your anecdote validates my perspective because fighting WW2 was a gigantic boon to the real economy, and winning WW2 gave us control of the world thereby allowing us to pay down our debt immediately afterwards. The debt we owe now is not the government lending itself money to pay for a war that puts it in a position to pay off the debt immediately afterwards, it's a giant bubble built on consumer credit, entitlements and QE that is slowly strangling our economies (which is why we're importing untold millions of foreigners, despite it being an obviously terrible idea, because our governments are fucked and know it)

BTW I knew and pegged you as trolling the moment you mentioned the "debt"

We need to participate in the day of the rake. Canada needs to be cleansed of stereotypical leaves. We will eradicate every liberal until they are actual bleeding hearts.

ima have to go with 1955

Frankfurt School infiltrated Colombia University. Seeded acedemia with Marxism, influenced men like John Dewey to get European professors installed in Universities. Deliberate spouting of schools of thought designed to destroy Western civilization ensued. Half are actively trying to bring society to an end and the other half are useful idiots who genuinely think that they are doing right.

>WW2 was a boom to the economy
War is the worst thing for the economy, so if FDR managed with a fucking world war our leaders should be able to manage it now.

>control of the world
That just costs a ton to maintain. This isn't clash of clans where you can loot resources from places you occupy

1955 was the peak of the USA
Pre WWI 20th Century was the peak of Europa

The horses are literally shitting in the middle of the street like it was fucking India.

IDK about that, it had a lot of problems but I'm a big fan of Eisenhower.

The gap between productivity and real wages is the change in wealth inequality. The thing is, is that it's unrelated to immigration and linked much more closely with advancing technology, increased work hours, better educated work force, and a shift from manufacturing to service industries.

Trips of truth.
That pictures gave me fucking feels

Run for President

>anarcho-anything

Oh, and here I was thinking that I was arguing with a reasonable person.

Though to answer your question, most nations are formed naturally. They are the result of a population sharing a common ethnic and cultural lineage, and the belief that they have the right to govern themselves free from outside influence. Globalism on the other hand, is a veiled ploy to undermine said sovereignty in order to enrich a few selfish oligarchs. Ask yourself who really benefits from globalistic trade deals such as NAFTA, which have heightened our GDP but devastated millions in middle America. Also ask yourself if the spread of global consumerist culture is worth the slow breakdown of unique national cultures.

The US got out of the depression BECAUSE of the war you fucking retard. All of FDR's socialist bullshit was barely making a dent before the economy was supercharged by the government pumping a retarded amount of money into the war economy and putting everyone back to work.

Control of the world gave us the favorable trade relationships and political influence that let us get resources for cheap and be the factory for the planet. Only a meme ideology like "anarcho-syndicalism" could straight-facedly declare that "power isn't important"

Just like India today, except with horse shit instead of pooinloo shit.

The American consumer benefits from free-trade, as does our entire economy you economic illiterate.

>i thought i was arguing with a reasonable person
Noam Chomsky smartest person, best debater is an anarchist.

>Though to answer your question, most nations are formed naturally. They are the result of a population sharing a common ethnic and cultural lineage, and the belief that they have the right to govern themselves free from outside influence
My town is isolated and feels the same way. Why can't my town govern itself, why does the capital of Canada which is FAR away have the right to govern my town? The same right the U.N has to govern America I suppose, they just do.

United States has different cultures, the South doesn't associate with the North, and the West and East are different. How are two different states any different than two different European states that don't want to be ruled by the same entity.

> Ask yourself who really benefits from globalistic trade deals such as NAFTA, which have heightened our GDP but devastated millions in middle America. Also ask yourself if the spread of global consumerist culture is worth the slow breakdown of unique national cultures.
Inter-provincial trade deals also fucked my province. Who created them? Nationalists.

Wow. You're literally creating your own history and you think anybody who has an education past 3rd grade is going to take you seriously? Lel. How about a reminder that the highest marginal tax rate in 1945 was 94%. Why didn't those massive taxes collapse our entire country?

Hand-wavey unquantifiable memes pushed to draw focus away from mass immigration

>all those hats

>The US got out of the depression BECAUSE of the war you fucking retard. All of FDR's socialist bullshit was barely making a dent before the economy was supercharged by the government pumping a retarded amount of money into the war economy and putting everyone back to work.
No retard what truly ended the depression was FDRS welfare program, since you don't actually NEED a job when you can collect free shit from the government, the demand for jobs decreased so wages went up.

>Control of the world gave us the favorable trade relationships and political influence that let us get resources for cheap and be the factory for the planet
Oh so is the United States is the factory of the planet? So we are producing for the world? I thought having power meant the world produced for you.

>Only a meme ideology like "anarcho-syndicalism" could straight-facedly declare that "power isn't important".
It's political dickwaving. The people of powerhouses live shitty lives since they have to pay for all the military shit with their tax dollars. U.S is an exception because they borrowed money instead of taxing it.

1890s weren't bad. 1900s weren't bad. 1910s is when it all started to fall apart.

I'm not trying to draw the attention away from anything, I'm just telling you the real reason that graph is what it is, unless it's somehow your contention that uneducated illegals came here making up less than 5% of our population and exploded worker productivity through the roof? I mean, you can ignore reality all you want, but drawing some meme in MS paint from your PragerU talking points does make you look retarded. Just trying to be nice.

>believing the everyone beat their wife meme femism used

But to the thread - what went wrong? Henry Ford wrote a book about that titled "The International Jew: the worlds foremost problem". Your answer and his foresight outline what happened.