You can’t miss what you never had. I wouldn’t miss the internet because it wasn’t available. We were a much more moral nation then and Susie didn’t have two mommies. My teachers read the Bible in the mornings and said a short prayer. You didn’t have to defend being a Christian. There were no school shootings. TV shows were not trashy. Music didn’t need to be beeped on the radio. Neighbors knew each other and their children played together and no one in my high school was pregnant and the school didn’t have a day care for students’ babies.
I could go on, but I think you get my point.
Think Bill Cosby, Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Sid Caesar, Martin & Lewis, Lenny Bruce, Red Skeleton, Lucille Ball, Art Carney, Jackie Gleason, etc. Back then, comedy meant something more than saying poo poo ca ca. The decline in real humor since ‘62 reflects the overall decline in the rest of society.
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Oh yeah? What about "Louie, Louie" by the Kingsmen? Did you know if you played it backwards it was pornographic? :-)
There were actually radio stations which refused to play the song and the FBI actually investigated whether it was pornographic. They found it was not and we all felt reassured.