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Originally Posted by notinmybackyard
OK where to start?
Sure we cured a few diseases but we have added new ones to the list including obesity (according to the CDC)
Every single social problem we had in the 60s still exists today. The black man still lives in ghettos only with white trash neighbours.. The drugs are harder and made from toxins... Our education system is dumber and has gun problems But for the most part it is just tit for tat. Nothing has really changed
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how was the education system so great back then when it was so common for students to drop out of school and almost unheard of to get secondary education?
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The biggest differences are the food, enviroment and today's youth.
Our food is toxic,
With all the chemicals, antibiotics, steroids, pesticides, genetic manipulation, etc.. We literally eat poisons at meal time. That is unless we are prepared to spend a lot more on BIO food.
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well back then they used DDT as a pesticide. there were no regulations on nutritional information being given to consumers nor were companies forced to even print the ingredients. lets not forget the 50's gave birth to the abortion known as the tv dinnner
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Our Enviroment is toxic,
Nuclear plants, chemicals dumped in the soil, plastics everywhere, etc. There is literally nowhere we can go on the face of the earth to hide from the garbage.
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i can agree with this to some degree but there was no recycling. people threw garbage out the car window without a second though, threw car oil on sewer drains and there were nowhere near the environmental oversight there is today.
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Today's Youth,
The words "Weak," "Stupid" and "Narcisstic" do NOT come close to describing how pathetic the overwhelming vast majority of them are.
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isn't that what your parents called your generation as well? its all what you want to see i guess. sure there is the general 'dumbing down' of society but its nothing new.
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I remember the past, most notably the Monterey Pop Festival, trying to get my 20$ back from Emmett Grogan, throwing bricks at the police in Paris in 1968 and spitting on a cop during the October Crisis in 1970. You are correct, it was NOT all Ozzie and Harriet... But at least we were truely alive which is something I can not say about a lot of people today.
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it certainly seemed to be an exciting time to be alive but keep in mind while you were doing all these things the vast majority of your generation just lived average lives and were born, got married, had kids and died in the same place.