re: The best of times to grow up in

So you're 86 years old posting on an internet message board with links? I'm still trying to teach my 65 year old dad that he only has to swipe his cell phone once to answer it and not 25 times.

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Honestly now is probably the best.

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You couldn't pay me to be a young person today.

Correct. I feel for my grandchildren.

For me it was the 60's and 70's.

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Lots of people missing in your history book.

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what percentage of that population had color film; cameras in the '50s???

OR - my eternal question to people like you - who look at history from your easy chair in the 21st century and feel the need to blame everyone around you for the unquestionable tragedies of the past 50,000 years.

question is - Pick any point x in time - I don't care where you start
-> point our the ONE place where the action of ONE person could have changed what was going to happen for the next 50000 - x years.

UNFAIR??
ok - then change it to some manageable group of people
-> At what decisive point could your 'Devine dozen' (who would 'right the potential wrongs the rest of humanity will commit') - that would have prevented the next 50,000 - x years from happening.

HMMMMM too tough??
ok - then change it to some decade of time
-> be specific about the prime decade of the past 50 millenia where concentrated action by a dedicated group of people could have changed world history foreverafterwards so that NOBODY would EVER hold some unwarranted grievance against any other group of people.

OR ----- go ahead and reveal your 'secret recipe' for 'world brotherhood' that you see has been neglected for all of human existence. Until YOU (or whomever you claim to represent) came along to show the REST of us how anti-whaateeeverthehellmakesyoufeelgoodtoday we all are,

NOW - be specific - and explain it like we were 5 years old so that we can all go out and marvel at your prescience. And we will flagellate ourselves incessantly now that you have shown us how simple it wold have been to avoid all this human misery.

OR ===== shut the fukc up

WTG 58!!!!!!

The dividing line was the birth of the drug culture of the 60's, before that anyone was free to go anywhere without worrying that some doper was going to kill you for his next fix.

What instigated the drug culture? My belief is that the Vietnam war destroyed the belief in American exceptionalism for many, the returning troops were badly treated when they came home from that damn place, the discontent smoldered and spread.

If JFK had not been assassinated and LBJ was ignored, he would have not been able to proliferate the war and the legislation the killed the black family unit would have never seen the light of day. Humphrey and Moynihan saw what was going to happen and tried to stop LBJ, they lost and so did we all.

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The best of times to grow up in

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When muscle cars, chicks, and Rock were best - 70's, early 80's