It is easy for anyone with a sense of history and memories of a gentler time to think fondly of a return to the good old days. What exactly did the good old days really entail? Our sunny ideas may illuminate the good things, but there were bad things as well. Let’s look at things 50 years ago. Though you may have the romantic idea that the world was full of Ward and June Cleavers and gasoline went for cents per gallon, the reality is that racism and lynching were rampant. Automobiles were unsafe with hard metal dash boards and no seat belts. Politics were corrupt and the news media rarely brought things to the surface. Music was available only on radio, reel to reel tape or vinyl. Electronic equipment used vacuum tubes that needed to be replaced from time to time. People's lives were ruined on the simple basis of someone saying "He/she's a Communist"
It's human nature for all of us to sooner or later turn into our parents and wax poetic about how the way things were when we were young but is it really true when not looked at through rose colored glasses? If you ask me, I'll take my cell phone, internet, microwave oven and 50 inch tv I can pick up with one hand.
Just because times were simpler doesnt truly make them better.
It is easy for anyone with a sense of history and memories of a gentler time to think fondly of a return to the good old days. What exactly did the good old days really entail? Our sunny ideas may illuminate the good things, but there were bad things as well. Let’s look at things 50 years ago. Though you may have the romantic idea that the world was full of Ward and June Cleavers and gasoline went for cents per gallon, the reality is that racism and lynching were rampant. Automobiles were unsafe with hard metal dash boards and no seat belts. Politics were corrupt and the news media rarely brought things to the surface. Music was available only on radio, reel to reel tape or vinyl. Electronic equipment used vacuum tubes that needed to be replaced from time to time. People's lives were ruined on the simple basis of someone saying "He/she's a Communist"
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