Posted on 05/31/2013 6:21:29 AM PDT by IbJensen
LOL thanks for the visual.
I did the same thing and still live to talk about it.
I left out the part where he burned down his neighbor’s bushes playing with firecrackers. It was not done maliciously. I don’t know where he would be today if he had done the same in this era.
The degeneration began in the mid 1960s. I remember it well.
The allowance of vagrants back on the streets.
Bail on your own recognizance.
The beginning of anti gun propaganda.
The degrading of language when the libs insisted that the most foul language become normal.
The death of John Kennedy and later Bobby Kennedy began the feminization of American men.
The attempts to “de-violence” society.
The allowance of the movie industry to “police themselves” with a rating system. This allowed them to churn out the most vile films ever made.
The GREAT SOCIETY war on POVERTY.
REMOVAL of Silver from coinage.
There are other things that happened then which began the degradation of civilization.
Bump for the survivors of no seatbelts in cars with steel dashboards!
> The list neglects the practice of becoming blood brothers.
Yeah, it does.
Followed by the interrogation by your mother, “How did you cut yourself?”
I think that is probably due to vaccinations and advances made in treatment of ailments, not due to the nanny state.
My husband managed to set the trees across the road from their house on fire too, when he was 9. He WAS watched by local law enforcement LOL.
What is it with little boys and fire?
On balance, I would say in spite of the nanny state. The greatest and most impactful advances in medical knowledge over this time frame came mostly from the private and voluntary sectors in the United States, rather than government. Certainly Obamacare in and of itself, by rationing and restricting access to medical services and by impeding medical research by decreasing profit incentives, will not have a positive impact on life expectancy in the United States.
Just saw on Drudge a kindergartner was suspended for having a cowboy style cap gun. I remember playing with those all the time, we all lived and no one grew up to be a mass murderer.
could make great scooters too, w/orange crates, a short 2x4, and one old roller skate!
Criminalizing speech; we always just said “sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me”.
I don’t believe life expectancy has changed all that much.
I’ve tracked my ancestry back to the mid 1600s and find a lot of people living well into their 80s. Men tended to live longer but I attribute that to the fact that they weren’t pregnant 15 or 16 times. Lots of children died but if you were a male who survived to adulthood, chances are that you would live as long as anyone today.
It sure was. I know. I lived it. ———— and it WAS in the 30s!!!!!!
I brought my Grandfathers Japanese WWII sword to show and tell.
As it was passed around the room a ruddy color started to come off on the kids sweaty little mitts.
We thought it was rust, but we determined that the blood runner still had 25 year old blood in it.
That was the best show and tell ever!
Yeah, but I am a girl! :)
CC
He left out a very important part of the 1930 - 1979 time period. Everybody was bored to tears.
Back in the ‘30’s, especially in the Southland, about the only entertainment people had were tent revivals. Some have gone so far as to blame lynchings on sheer boredom.
By the 1950s, and the great suburban western expansion, social tension had about reached a boiling point. While the end of the war pretty much ended omnipresent segregation in the North, much of the “Bible Belt” was still ruled by small town religious cliques that mistreated those outside of their sect.
The “sexual revolution” was actually a “cultural revolution” by people sick to death of their defined roles in society and wanting something better for themselves and their children.
The first big breakthrough gets little credit but had a huge impact: Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway System. For once, people could “vote with their feet”, and they did.
The in the 1960s, the light dawned that industrialism had made much of America a polluted mess. This is when cleaning up, both nationally and personally, suddenly became important.
The 1950s diet of meat, flour, sugar, salt, fat, liquor and cigarettes was really taking its toll.
But the giant breakthrough came with the breakup of AT&T: entertainment! Finally we had information we didn’t have to wait for, and was filtered through the big three TV nets and the local paper, days or weeks after it happened.
“Dad, why is polar bears fur white?”
“Gee, son. I don’t know. Why don’t you go to the library, find and read a book about polar bears, and find out? It should only take a day or two.”
“No thanks, dad. I’ll just Google it.”
“He left out a very important part of the 1930 - 1979 time period. Everybody was bored to tears.”
Boredom = Lack of imagination
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