People were tougher, believed in God, and understood that socialists were enemies of the American way of life.
More like also thought a bit more about being paranoid, it seems.
That’s when America was still America but the seeds of our current ruination were being planted.
Here is what I observed in 1969. They were taking school administrations hostage. burning buildings, clashing with police, doing drugs, living in communes, and dodging the draft.
Men burned their draft cards. Women burned their bras. Men’s hair was long. Women’s skirts were short.
Middle class norms started to include wife swapping, typified by a movie called “Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice.” Country songs were about drinking, cheating, and divorce.
The crime rate was through the roof, typified by Charles Manson. The best of us went to Vietnam. The worst of us went to Woodstock.
The baby boomers are hellish liars and hypocrites because they have hidden most of what they did from their kids and the world. They demanded “sex drugs, and rock and roll,” later denying it, and became petty societal tyrants, generally insisting that no other generations be able to experiment or have any fun.