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Unless you were black in the south, a domestically battered spouse, disabled, in need of mental health care etc . . .

I get it. “Good Times”.

But not everyone looks so fondly upon those years.

Cool thing? John Lydon was born in’56.

Never Mind the Bollocks

@Macoozie says Unless you were black in the south, a domestically battered spouse, disabled, in need of mental health care etc . . . The song/poem did not celebrate any of these things. Is everyone supposed to jettison the good things of life because suffering was going on? If spousal abuse was ended does that mean the trade off had to be the tear down of most morals. Of course the problems you list are real, but to juxtapose these against the good things that once existed as if one cause the other is a false dilemma.

Unless you were black in the south, a domestically battered spouse, disabled, in need of mental health care etc . . .

As the announcer warned the crowd at Woodstock, don't take the brown [lamestream media] acid.

Blacks in the south were much better off in the 1950s--with families more intact than white people's and fewer illegitimate births, better employment stats than now, and way better education, if you count actual knowledge like reading, writing, arithmetic, and making a living. I trust Thomas Sowell's info more than BLM's.

There were fewer divorces, and also fewer domestically battered spouses among all religious, racial, and social groups. And if you want real numbers on wife-beating today, you have to count assault and battery in couples who never managed to get married--where the rate is astronomical. And you have to count homosexual couples, where the rate is even more astronomical, especially among lesbians. Proclaiming (dishonestly) that marriage is "hypocrisy" because daily life is never unalloyed bliss did not produce more happiness, but served to put happiness out of young people's reach.

As for being disabled, the medical technology is way better today, plus the ramps and all. But in the 1950s, people had relatives who actually cared for them and about them, and there were fewer public places you had to go to and climb into. And if you were disabled, people considered it part of life, and not pathetic. A lot of what you saw were half-healed wounds from WWII.

In need of mental health care today? No more mental hospitals. They're all closed, at the orders of the Communist advocates who argued that insanity is just another point of view. So thanks to the Left, if you're crazy and poor, you have nowhere to go except the street and those crime-pits they call homeless shelters. There is better medical understanding of insanity now, ironically, but no political will to deal with any kind of dangerous, public, bad behavior by the insane.

The '50s had a lot of the same problems we have today--including Communists among one's friends and neighbors who argued that America needed to be undermined because socialism was more "advanced." So we got more socialism at every level, and now have the same problems you describe from the 1950s, but by different names. The difference is that virtue and family life are denounced by the drug-addled and envious--especially where sex is concerned--and I'm talking about the people who run the government and rule the universities.

What we need is a nationwide, worldwide movement to teach--in thought, word, example, schooling, and public discourse--Christian charity, patriotism, self-mastery, work, and gratitude. Everything else is just pitchers of insanity bought by the drink.