re: What is your assessment of the 1960’s?

Few movies showed the decade's narcissistic self-indulgence and inflated sense of its own importance better than this one did.

Albeit inadvertently and without apparent irony. Not a likable character among them.

1960’s. Great music, cool clothes, fantastic innovation and exploration (space), but horrible counterculture and the negative effects are felt strongly today. Never before has there been such a complete upheaval of American ideals and glaring change than from the years 1960 to 1970.

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As someone involved with the women movement early on I agree to disagree

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Were you a nurse during this time? Cause that was my specific example....being treated like crap as a nurse back then.

My grandmother was and told me many stories about what it was like as a nurse back then. Back then you never dared question what the doctor ordered if you were just a lowly nurse. Doctors ordered it....you carried out the orders. Also the pay for nurses was not as great as it is now (obviously factoring in inflation). There were not all the career opportunities there are today in the world of nursing.


Also.....the birth control pill that was released in the 60s had numerous problems. Women having strokes because they hadn’t connected the dots yet that women smokers on the pill are at a heavy risk for strokes.

Again....I’m just saying there is no appeal to me as a woman to have been a young woman in the 1960s.

Just because pregnant young women were forced into marriage to stay respectable doesn’t mean it was a great wholesome society. Just means you had more unhappy marriages likely full of infidelity and domestic abuse (cause back then a woman never dared report an abusive spouse). I would gather most people on this board had sex before marriage so it’s hypocritical of posters to judge an unmarried woman who is pregnant.

I’m not talking a teenager who is pregnant btw. I’m talking young women in their 20s. At least now a young woman has more options than being forced into marriage or a back alley abortion(btw....I hate abortion). And if they wanted to give the child up for adoption they didn’t have to “go away” for a year to avoid shaming the family.

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High school graduation in 1965 was below 50%, college graduation was below 10% of the adult population.

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Good point and relevant today.

50% being too small a number for high school graduation in a "modern, developed 1st World nation", the country had this big push to improve that number. They did and it is currently at 90%, but unfortunately all they wound up doing was dumbing down the nation's high school graduates. Sure, we have a higher % of high school graduates, but so many of them can barely read or write a complete sentence, know any history, or can perform anything above simple math.

Likewise with the college grads. Immediately after WW II, the percentage of college grads was around 5% - one in twenty. As you stated, by 1965 it had doubled to 10%. Being a college grad back then MEANT something. When I graduated from college a little over 30 years ago, it was about 20%- 1 in 5. Now, it is 34%-- over a THIRD.

And we have a bunch of idiot college grads running around.

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The 70's were an economic disaster for the middle class. This "boomers had it easy" is revisionist crap. The entire decade was a struggle. This inflation run started in '72 and lasted about 10 years, coupled with economic stagnation and the shedding of blue collar jobs.

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Yeah, until then it was cake. By then the boomers were young adults, basically that century's version of millennials. Some woke up, and many stayed in the counter culture communist bullshite they were fed in school. Those are the ones that made the movies and other media justifying and glorifying the lack of self control in modern culture.

I was born then so at least they have that going for them...