You went into the military to protect your country, you had faith in the politicians you elected, you could take your vehicle to the mechanic without taking up the tailpipe, the newspapers and the reporters on TV reported the news. not their take and embellishment on it, men and women got married, people went to church on Sunday, Political correctness was a phrase you never heard, people went to work and earned their living, kids in school answered to their father if they screwed up. Where did it go wrong???
I don't think world ever existed. That was a "Leave it to Beaver" TV delusion / propaganda we were supposed to buy into ... and many did. The difference in older times was that most the deviations from the image stayed behind closed doors, NOT what actually happened behind those doors. Human nature does not change. What's changed is we got jaded and started seeing what was there to see all along.
Tom
Ignorance was bliss I suppose.
Definitely my impression. I had an unusual perspective I guess. I grew up in a very small community with almost no kids so when I was 8-10, the people I was around were 75 to 90, many born in the later 1880s. The 1890s, when they grew up, were as real to me as the 1950s and early 1960s that I barely missed. They said the same things about "kids" that old fogeys have always said about the generation or two following them, the only difference was they did it with fewer cuss words. The rolled eyes were the same, the dismay was the same.
There were a whole lot of first babies that looked awfully healthy for being 2 months premature and, of course, conceived on wedding night. The moms could not have been pregnant, right? That wouldn't be the fantasy world of "Leave it to Beaver". 1920s .. flappers, etc ... nothing promiscuous going on there. Really, premarital and extramarital sex were invented in the 1960s. Didn't you know? Laudanum .. oh, no, nobody ever abused THAT. Much. Abuse of doctor-prescribed medicines is a brand new thing, don't you remember?
I think the people who are overly enamored with that utopian past were simply too young at the time to have been fully aware of all that was going on. You can drive back but you can never go home. It never was the thing you remember it being now.
Tom
