I was rural born in 64 so I caught a glimpse. There was even still a soda fountain till I was 10 or 12 years old.
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Yeah, I remember never locking the house...I wonder if we even had a key. It was a nice 2 story house, nice town, great neighbors...no murders, no kidnapping, playing outside all over the neighborhood without fear.
Now I read news from the town I grew up in and it is unrecognizable.
I dunno. I’m your age and live in Los Angeles. While I hear what you are saying, and tend to agree, I think it is often what you make it. I’m not scared here. I grew up in VA and practiced law there for 25 years before moving here. I just surround myself with ppl with whom I share the same values. I don’t find it that difficult. Maybe I’m just lucky. * shrug*
I can remember tons of freedoms that don’t exist today.
Riding my bike without a helmet and other “protective” gear wasn’t against the law.
School wasn’t like a prison. If we needed medicine for our cold we could take it with us and didn’t need “permission” from the principal.
Smoking was allowed everywhere including planes and nobody complained. Heck, I remember kids going to the store to pick up smokes for dad and we weren’t even questioned about it.
Riding in cars without seat belts wasn’t against the law. We knew it wasn’t safe but didn’t need Big Brother to tell us that and slap us with their revenue enhancement fines to fund their unions.
Having an unopened beer in your car was perfectly legal. At least it was here in Texas. Being DWI of course was against the law, but we knew that.
We didn’t have random searches at airports when we flew. And...we could carry on just about anything except guns of course.
Cops couldn’t just search your car or house for no reason. They actually had to have a warrant. We didn’t have SWAT teams raiding houses and shooting dogs.
I could fill a book with the freedoms we have lost just in the last 20 years alone. We let the camel under the tent far too many times and now he has filled it with shit every single time.
Kinda glad I won’t be around to see the entire country gone in a few more years. Sad really.
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I was born in 1966, grew up in NYC during the Son of Sam and “Ford to NY: Go to Hell” 70’s. I went through my late teen and early 20’s through the 80’s marked by Bernie Goetz,Wilding and Crown Heights Riots.My youth was marked by widespread crime, corruption and strife.
For me,the good old days didn’t arrive until the 90’s with Rudy Giuliani, Joe Torre, a booming economy and a crack down on crime.
After 911 and Bloomberg, I relocated to Texas to finally escape the entrenched, permanent democrat hell.
It’s hard for some of us to imagine a good old days when we’ve spent nearly our entire lives dodging bullets, fighting with “Holder’s People” and dealing with the democrats EVERYDAY.
(Do NOT worry Texans...I loathe the Democrats and the only change to Texas I would make is to permanently relocate the lefties OUT of Texas)
I remember back when fudgepackers were ridiculed, now they are considered “normal”.
And, I got home unharmed and in one piece. No pit bulls. No gang-bangers.
In Flint, MIchigan.
I remember when Saturday night was a big shopping night in my small town in the rural Midwest. Businesses stayed open until 10 pm. and during the summer there were band concerts in our main street band stand. I played in summer band until I graduated from high school. Fond memories from growing up in a small town during the 1950s and early 1960s.
I was born in 1948. For a child in the 50’s it one endless time of freedom, innocence, dreams and joy. Not every moment to be sure, but the days rolled by and people in my everyday life were decent people.
Although I grew up in a later decade-—I knew the same as you—no locked doors, kindness from most people on the streets-—but I can remember when my parents had to lock up their house-—in the late eighties. They had druggie/homeless person break down their garage door to steal a car and had food stolen from their freezer.
This change is because of the breakup of the family unit and children being raised by non-family members-—people who don’t have a genetic interest in the children. TV is instilling their evil Values and Ethics——which erase the Christian Ethics that were prevalent in America until the public schools totally erased the Bible and God from the curricula. Public schools are teaching moral relativism-—forcing out Absolute Truth (God). When there is no God—there is only evil in man.
Christian Ethics formed the America you grew up in—the one America had until the 70’s. Now the Atheists shape kids with their TV and schools. Christianity gave us freedom to exist in the most perfect of societies on earth-—charity—hospitals, schools, freedom from inequality-— freedom from slavery, pederasty, polygamy which was prevalent in most societies. Christianity forced dignity for every single human—old or young.
Children are being programmed to be rude and selfish and Godless. It is actually quite easy-—let them watch TV and have no positive interaction with fathers. I spent a few days literally watching “children’s” programs-—supposedly “better” than average cartoons-—and I found it to be highly offensive. The underlying psychology behind the programs are evil and teach young children to be rude to adults and distrustful and destroys their innocence—so they can’t trust adults—even their parents. It undermines all Christian ethics-—and destroys their innocence. It makes children grow up cynical and hateful and non-trusting.
It makes children “think” they “know” everything-—but they know nothing of ethical human interactions which have to be habituated and practiced!!!! You can’t watch your life away-—and expect to contain Virtue when not practiced in actual interaction with mother and father-—who don’t even have dinner with their children anymore without the TV on. (Known since Aristotle but Classical thinking is being destroyed by our schools, so they can program idiots). TV is creating the Lord of the Flies world-—Ugly ideas from TV are forming children’s ethics because their parents are lazy and/or gone and will not be responsible for formation of the character of their children which is selfless-hard-work. Young parents today are mostly selfish and lazy and totally ignorant of child development-—schools and TV and parent magazines actually teach methodology to make your children dysfunctional.
So-—to reclaim your Ethics——you have to eliminate all TV programs which habituate evil ethical standards-——which is most programs-—most cartoons. That is the difference. At 77, you never had your ideas formulated and habituated by a television and movie house 24/7. You probably had both a mother and father instilling good habits and morality. That is the difference. You know Truth—you actually lived in a “normal” family who cared about you and your reality of life. They formed it and didn’t allow strangers to shape you in your young age.
You don’t live in this false world-—where things appear out of nowhere—where you get everything with no effort—food, water, light. You didn’t have your work ethic literally destroyed by a public school system, an intrusive government controlling all aspect of life, and TV.
BTW, the Prussian school system is set up to produce drones-—slaves-—”group think”. Get your grandkids OUT of public schools and throw out the TV. Then, with teaching Classical thinking—only then—will your children grow up to be moral, ethical human beings who can actually use Reason and Logic and Love other human beings.
Selflessness-—the main ingredient of Christianity is being erased. That is what you see-—the killing of the idea of Jesus. The Humanists have been trying to do this for 500 years. With technology and total control of education (by the Billy Ayers type) they have been able to control all perceptions of the last several generations. We now have non=thinking drones —Group “thinkers”—who are becoming the majority and are programmed to be immoral.
Born in 1966. It’s like what Michael Savage said at one time, we had more freedoms in 1970 or even 1980 than we do now. I also miss the Saturday Morning cartoons too. BTW, anybody remember “Shazam?”
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When I was 3-4-5, I didn't know there was a difference in boys and girls. One day I was running around outside without a shirt on and someone said I was a girl and should have a shirt on. I went in the house and asked my mother why that person said that. I can't remember when I actually started wearing a shirt.
I first locked the front door in about 1963. One street over, someone broke into a doctor's house looking for drugs, so I started locking the front door since his house wasn't far from ours.
I think the country changed about twenty years ago. Now, it is the pits for personal security. I feel safe in my house because I made it safe. Outside my very small gated community, I am not safe. No one is safe outside anymore. One can have concealed carry but the fact one does that says outside is not safe.
Now, the govn. wants to take our guns. They can go pound dirt. This outcry about guns makes me want to buy some more if there is any left after this past week.
I remember riding my bike down to the Coast to Coast hardware store when I was 11 years old. I told the guy at the counter I needed some .22 ammo. All he said was “short, long, or long rifle?” A box of long rifle was 37 cents.....