How is 1950's Society Similar to Post 9/11 Society?

Today’s post 9/11 society is similar to that of 1950s in a way of constant paranoia lingering in the citizens due to fear of an outside threat. In 1950s it was the fear of communists taken over and having the accusation of being a communist without fair judgement and in today’s society we have the fear of another terrorist attack following the attack on the World Trade Center.

Another similarity in both societies is that of both freedoms and liberties being taken away in contradiction to America’s traditional ideology, which includes the freedom of speech and the right to fair trials. This is due to the intense fear of annihilation and constant threat of outsiders infiltrating the society. In today’s society we have the Patriots Act, which gives government access to everyone’s privacy, this increases the sense of paranoia, as the people within the society know they are always being watched. In the 1950s though, people were arrested without right to a fair trail and proper evidence to prove them guilty, both of these go against laws of privacy and right to a fair judgement and everyone’s privacy was restricted.