60's Moral Changes

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The ideas of uncertainty and unknowns are present among society and cause the most stress out of all other factors. In the 60’s and Vietnam Era, the concept of unknowns and the effects were strongly displayed in the actions and faces of the people. The actions of a few are based solely on emotions, and within the 60’s era, all emotions were running high creating massive followings of rebels. The rebels will always be the first to challenge the government. Rebels will fight for their cause but sometimes their morals will change in order to accomplish change. Soon after rebels arise, many citizens of America began to challenge norms and change morals. The positive war hype of World War II had fizzled out and been replaced with unrighteous behaviors. …show more content…
While extremes will push a person’s morals to change, fear is a far more common idea which slightly makes a person change. Morals were never truly broken, society adapted to what was occurring around them. Fear and paranoia was and will always be a constant idea throughout history. In the novel, The Things They Carried, it states, “Take it easy,’ he’d murmur, ‘easy, easy, easy,’ but it wouldn’t get any easier” (199). The VC played on the fears of the soldiers and the minds of the soldiers created more paranoia than necessary. In response to the fear, the soldiers stayed as calm as they could. In the end, it allowed the soldiers to return to society with the same morality. The people in the counterculture also experienced fear. The dreaded the draft and how it held so much power. The draft invoked thoughts about how no one knew when one would be shipped off to Vietnam or whether or not to become a draft dodger. A paranoia was occurring within society constructing a new type of reactions out of fear. Morality was not shaken in the counterculture and the Civil Rights Movement. The ideas of civil disobedience shown how when someone wanted to change the current ideas the norm would be challenged producing fear of the majority. White population feared the rising power of the Civil Rights group. The black population had the idea of being civilly disobedient, so no morals were brought down to a terrible level. Civil disobedience was a technique Blacks used to try and fight the fear of the opposing side. Both sides were afraid of losing their rights, but everything which happened was only a response to fear. Paranoia can come from any type of event and strike at anybody during the