Posted on 01/16/2013 3:10:17 AM PST by Cocoa2012
The United States of America was the greatest nation in the history of the world, bar none, and just about every American school kid knew why
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bfl
Fifty years ago was 1963. By the time the dude was becoming politically aware, the transition from then to now was well under way ...
My thoughts as well. (I’m 67)
That dude is lying about his age.
I agree! I am 43 and the tv shows were not The Donna Reed Show....Repeats occasionally (not during prime time for sure). This guy must be smoking so heavy duty stuff.
I remember watching plenty of Father Knows Best and Leave it to Beaver reruns in the 70’s
I do too and liked both shows, but this guy seems to imply that those were the “main” shows watched. Obviously that was not the case as “Three’s Company” and “One Day at a Time” were the popular shows (at least late 70’s.)
dittos
Seems his age is probably off by about 10 - 15 years because The Donna Reed Show aired from 1958 - 1966 which would mean he was probably born in the late 40’s or early early 50’s at the very least if it were one of the main TV show of his day. He may be getting senile in his old age too...lol
For my part, I think the culture has descended dramatically in my lifetime (born 1960) and I think a good part of that is because negro culture has been adopted by whites as a superior culture -- which it isn't.
The dialogue and "plot" of 90% of these "programs" consists mostly of bodily function noises. Sprinkle in some Adderall, 24/7 fast/junk food, zero exercise and discipline and you have mindless, feral, brass, exhibitionist, narcissistic, zombie children with no grasp of the English language--requiring remedial grade school well into their twenties.
ATV=ATM
To quote another board where nostalgia blurred out the fifties:
“and the 50’s really WAS Ozzie and Harriet, and The Beav, and the Beach Boys. Nothing bad happened. No one died in 3rd floor walk-ups of hypothermia, nobody died in orphanages or any of that sort of thing.
Please.
Kids as old as 12 ran households because mom was out working. Mom got her monthly bricks of Government cheese and cans of government Pulled Pork, and flour and beans and rice.
Those 12 year olds mended and darned clothes for their siblings. Kids 3-4-5 didn’t get to 4-5-6 because they weren’t well or even CLOSE to properly fed, or properly or well clothed.”
His wife lived through that, and doesn’t want to see it again. The fifties weren’t nice.
Fifty years ago a dude was a “city slicker” wearing a cowboy hat.Today it seems to be used to sound hip or flippant.
Fifty years ago a dude was a “city slicker” wearing a cowboy hat.Today it seems to be used to sound hip or flippant.
Not really.
I’m 34, and all of the shows from the 50s and early 60s were easily seen even in the mid 80s to early 90s. Everything from My Three Sons, Patty Duke, and the Honeymooners to Lost in Space and Star Trek.
Those were only shows that were 25-35 years old, like watching Threes Company and The Jeffersons today.
Shows like “The Middle” are portraying both parents as retards.
Dont get started talking about the stuff on the premium networks. Likely one or both parents are engaged in criminal activities.
I was born in '62, and I don't remember a completely clean pop culture. I was 8 in 1970, when I started to become aware of the world beyond my town, and a lot of what I saw in pop culture was strange and scary. I remember the "ink blot" rock groups, constant news reports about hippies, riots and LSD, graphic images of the wounded in Vietnam, etc. On the plus side, there was the excitement about the moon landing, and heartwarming TV shows like "The Andy Griffith Show" and harmless pablum like "The Brady Bunch."
To my mind, the big cultural shift happened from 1967-73. It was the era of Acid Rock, "drug rock" (Pink Floyd) and the birth of Heavy Metal (Black Sabbath/Led Zeppelin). It was the drug age (LSD, mushrooms, heroin), and the era of free love. Psychology took the place of religion, to a significant degree. It was the era of "demonstrations" against all institutions. And Vietnam was a hopeless quagmire.
Looking back is sad. I remember the "old school" people and institutions fading away, but I don't remember the same institutions in their glory.
For some reason, those years, 1967-1973, are sadder to me than the current state of our culture, which seems to be in free fall.
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