“Our standard of living is much higher now than it was in 1962.”
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That is quite subjective.
How is the standard of living much higher? From what I see, it is worse.
Is it because you now have cable TV and Internet, or a better car?
I can assure you, public education was far superior then
it is today.
The media was more balanced then it is today.
We did not have an illegal Communist for POTUS.
Premarital sex and homosexuality was in the closet.
Drugs were limited to a small outcast segment of society.
One would never see an illegal immigrant.
I am, of course, speaking only for myself.
If the American culture was as it was in 1980, I would not mind still living there.
In 1962 if I wanted to buy a computer it would cost me millions of dollars.
And the computer I would get would be huge and consume large amounts of energy.
Now I can buy a decent computer for $500 and it will consume much less energy while being smaller and will much more features.
Thank you, I knew someone would say it for me. Apparently we are about the same age. I was a new Navy recruit in boot camp at San Diego in June 1962. Straight from high school to boot camp.
First, let’s translate that into English:Journalism “was more balanced then."
In reality, journalism was slobbering all over John and Jackie Kennedy in 1962. You couldn’t pass a counter anywhere without being “treated” to a picture of one or the other of them. It was sickening.Bias in journalism didn’t start later, it was in full bloom when we were told that Joe McCarthy was a right wing radical for saying what we now know was an understatement of the communist subversion of the government.