I guess you ain't one! ;-D
I remember how good they were...
From my perspective, I suppose those were someone else's problems. These are problems I acknowledge existed then, but they weren't obvious in my life. But we didn't have SWAT teams shooting someone in the wrong house, either.
...any fewer freedoms than I had when I was 25. And I suspect you don't either...
Whoops! I guess you haven't tried to order propellant constituents or buy dynamite fuse lately. My circle of friends messed around with a number of "chemical experiments" when we were young. (Things that go boom, whoosh, screech, or bwaaaa.) They will hunt you down and put you away for a long time for those things now. No child got arrested for bringing a TOY gun to school in those days, either. Shoot, I even started a rocket club at school ... and there were no paper ESTES rockets then. Nowadays they threaten to call the cops if you volunteer to sponsor one of those.
I'm 57. I do see a great deal of difference. It is not imagined. I think you and I view life from different perspectives.
I would gladly die to save my Nation. I will surely bitch as long as I think it serves some purpose. Right now, this Nation is way off course.
If an adult male is still "blowing things up" or holding magnifying glasses over ant beds, he ought to be put away, for a much different reason.
No child got arrested for bringing a TOY gun to school in those days, either.
That's because so many kids have brought REAL guns to school and used them. Children don't need to be taking toys to school, of any kind, unless they're in kindergarten.
I believe life is grand, right now. Technology has increased the knowledge base ten-fold, more and more people are able to travel due to the low cost, and medical science has prolonged our lives by a full decade.
I wouldn't go back to the 50s if you gave me a million dollars to do it.