Well everyone has fond memories of childhood, because that was the last time you didn’t have to work and pay bills.
But before we get too misty-eyed and sentimental about past decades, may I point out some of the disadvantages - worse medical care, worse cars, only 3 channels on TV (which went off-air at midnight), unreported rapes (cuz women weren’t believed), and free reign for pedophiles.
Some things are better now, some are worse - probably a valid truth for any point in history?
Worse cars - you think the cars are better looking today? Of course, they probably have better safety features, speed, and such, but the styles of the 50' and 60's cars are unmatched today.
More channels on the tube today and still nothing worth seeing.
There are still unreported rapes today as well as more women accusing someone of a rape that never happened.
Pedophiles aren't free ranging today? You're kidding, right?
Medical care wasn't that bad and it was truly affordable even a hospital stay. The doctor who delivered you could also do surgery and was probably your grandparents doctor as well.
Worse cars? Oh please! At age 16 I could diagnose fix any issue with my car. Today? Today it takes a trip to a shop with a computer and a $200 hit to hook it up and you never leave there without forking over about a $1000. Remember when Brake Rotors and Drums could be turned saving you from buying new ones at a ridiculous price? My older cars usually did not leave me sitting due to the wretched Crank Positioning Sensor which always seems to fail in most dangerous of circumstances. As a 5 year old unrestrained in the back seat of the family 55 Chevy I survived a high speed rear ending with a broken tooth. Todays cars I can just about total one out kicking them with my boots. Cars of the 1970's built in USA you could sit on the hoods. Cars built earlier than that you could stand on them.
Three channel TV? I'm 57. We didn't have a color TV until I was married in the early 1980's. We didn't get anything but poor reception of the three channels and we lived with it.
Perverts? Yeah they were around then some unreported and still today most are unreported. One thing many perverts greatly feared then that they don't now was vengeance done upon the perp from family members or neighborhood men that also went unreported and didn't bring about criminal charges for hurting dear perp victim.
The truth? My grandsons can not enjoy the nation of my youth. The worse thing we had in school was allowed smoking outside. Fist Fiughts didn't bring a police response nor a criminal record as they do today. Today a Fag Pervert can talk to the kids in school about how to enjoy Gay Sex but smoking is a criminal offense as is a pocket knife and no one better even mention GOD or read The Bible during school hours. Prayer will bring lawsuits except those to Ollie in the special room. Our school didn't begin classes without Devotion, Prayer, and Pledge being said. Many of our teachers in high school and principals were also Deacons, preachers, or church officers. I went to a public school BTW. My high school principal was an ordained minister who ran a safe orderly school. The Consolidated Mega High School built four years later was a Zoo and it's principal faced criminal charges.
My grandsons unlike the USA of my dad and my youth can't go camping at a lake alone as 14 year olds armed with a rifle. Either the Fag Mafia will get them or Children's Services will take them into custody so Butch and Dyke or Adam and Steve can have foster kids and be a real family. Yes indeed that's the evil agenda of the so called Child Protection racket.
I grew up in the 1960's up to the mid 1970's in the same nation values wise, laws wise, and common sense wise, that of which my father did in the 1930's and 40's. I could walk downtown in the evening even going past bars as a 12 year old. Because we lived in a rural area I rode into work with my dad who worked evenings and I went too see a movie or two then walked to where he worked about 8PM or so for a ride home when he got off from work at midnight. Today that same area I would not go without carrying. It's now a Homeless Haven known by every homeless person east of the Mississippi. It's a huge NPO with huge administration. IOW encouraging the homeless into the city. For that matter I don't much go anywhere these days without a weapon. Growing up our doors weren't locked on cars and on houses only if you went on vacation.
Today leaving your dog in a car windows partially down on a partly cloudy day will get you criminal charges because the Wanna Be Animal Prescient Nutjob looking in parked cars will call it in. I remember being told stay in the car while either Mom or Dad went inside a store. Today that warrants a DCS intervention or minimal a visit.
Anyone can screw up anyone's elses life for considerable time now simply by making an anonymous call to CPS or for that matter any government agency and telling them fabricated B.S. Worse kids in school are learning how to do this and calling in on other kids parents or their own if they don't get that new phone or game.
I’ll take all the improvements and liberty, please.