There was plenty of crap going on then too.
The Manson Family committed their murders in 1969, and were convicted in 1971. Vietnam was happening. The Kent State shooting was in 1970. The Weather Underground was active from 1969 to 1977, including the bombings. There were race riots in multiple cities. Watergate started in 1972. etc. A lot of what we’re trying to work through now started back then.
Actually those “happy days” were mostly in the 50’s and early 60’s before and aside from the grotesque hippies - chicks were chicks and guys were guys and muscle cars were cool.
very true....1968 something else....country was on the verge of chaos...
“A lot of what we’re trying to work through now started back then.”
You are absolutely correct. I witnessed it all. My frame of reference is the 40s and 50s. As brutal as WW2 was and as hardened as it left people, there was a distinctly soft edge to life. Beginning in the mid-60’s that all went to hell the repercussions of which we feel to this very day.
It’s no where near as bad as things are today. Today some misfit in Texas can bake her baby in a microwave oven and it barely makes news. So many mass shootings most people hardly pay attention. And this country has NEVER been this violently divided since the Civil War. This isn’t’ even debatable.
(I don't mean this as an insult by the way; I understand that this doesn't included everyone, and I have no doubt that many people who came of age during that time lived a hard life. But as an entire generation, they walked into a time where the heavy lifting had already been done for them. They simply didn't understand the efforts that had been made by their parents and grandparents to endure the depression and the world wars, and to bring this country to where it was when they grew up.)
You also didn’t have 24 hour news networks and social media constantly making mountains out of molehills, back then those stories may have made for a 2-3 minute report on the evening news, and that’s it.
Did you live it or are you just dredging up news events that you heard about?