I'm not old enough to know what it was like to phyically be alive back then, but I like to hear stories of the good old days. I wouldn't even consider myself like most teens and twenty somethings nowadys. My morals are so much more conservative than theirs, but that's not to say that I don't have a lot of intrigue about the same stuff they do. I like to watch the show Leave it to Beaver a lot too, this was a classic show from an innocent time when people felt safe from dangers that abound today. There was nothing dysfunctional about the Cleaver family. The patriarch Ward would dispense solid life value instructions to his two boys Wally and the Beaver. The mother June would always look her best while keeping the house spotless and having time for the local PTA. If you think about even the show The Twilight Zone sent positive moral messages, and there were consequesces for actions. Sorry for the ranting, but I honestly can't see America getting any better, it just seems like something has got to give.
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. --Robert Louis Stevenson
How sweet. Young people like you make me more optimistic about our country.
A nice sentiment. Bless you.