Before the commi-hippie-feminazi-faggot-NEA-Wlater Cronkite-warped 1960’s, and the corn syrup-laced American diet, it was definitely much better.
Kids played safely on their own, and were disciplined by a public with a common morality. One wasn’t assaulted for speaking their mind honestly. Women and girls weren’t cursing, tattooed sluts. Men and boys knew they had to work to get, and that queer was queer.
Boys played outside using their leg and arm muscles, not in a basement using just their thumbs. Families included fathers. On Sundays stores were closed and you did home and family activities. TV went off at midnight, and you went to bed by then; and broadcasters were held to moral standards.
Yeah, there was discrimination then — that’s how life’s decisions are made, all day every day. ‘Discriminating taste’ used to be held in esteem. And self-esteem was earned, not handed out for free.
America has not progressed socially. Technically, yes. Socially, no. We’ve regressed.
when I was a kid I would leave the house in the morning, go play in the woods across the street until evening. When the street lights came on it was time to go home.
I would spend all day there, I cannot even remember worrying about breakfast lunch or dinner, we just played and played and made forts and explored, and buitl tree-houses...
I remember for about 3 years in a row, I made it a point to take off my shoes the last day of school, and not wear any all summer until the first school day of the next year.
We had 7 kids in the family and only my dad worked, and I would give anything to go back to those times.