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I'm going to go with the 1960s even though it was before my time.
It seems like everyone just lost their minds sometime around 1964. All of a sudden it was "the Sixties". So I wish I could've been around back then to witness the era. The social upheaval, political changes, etc., exciting times.
Ive only lived through 4 of them, the 80's to the 2010's, but out of those, I pick the 90's.
When would I have liked to experience? The 1960's. Its the last period of time people were really motivated to do anything about injustice. I would have absolutely been in my element.
The 60s were not all good; we had a president that was assassinated, kids were od ing, they were dropping out of society and protesting; not usually peacefully. Unwed pregnancy was over the top until the pill became assessable and it was the start of the end of moral values as we had known them. It wasn't the last time people fought for injustice. The civil rights era was really just beginning and there was a lot less tolerance for people who were not the majority. We had the worst riot in history in Los Angels. You call that was doing something for injustice. Had your home burned down or you lived in a neighborhood in the curfew area you might think differently. One more thing, do you think any city or location would have allowed a gay parade and do you think a person, openly gay would have had a shot at a decent job?
I could go on and on, but your view of the 60s is just a fairy tail. The only positive thing may have been the awesome music and yes, the starting of the civil rights movement.
The 50s. Being born in 1950, it was the period of time when I had no concerns because I was not told about anything that was going on that could harm me. My parents would beg me to come back inside. Nowadays it is the exact opposite!
I thought we were poor and it didn't matter. My parents grew up during the depression, so they were extremely tight fisted with their money. I know they were not rich. Probably lower middle class by today's standards.
If we could arrange for everybody to go back in time to experience any one decade, imagine what it would be like now, if everyone could experience life during the great depression. Send everyone back to the thirties to live for a time. It would put a lot of things in a different perspective. I kind of did that by having parents that did live through it, although I didn't quite figure that out until much later in life.
But the 1950s had television that didn't force the viewers to be concerned with societies troubles. Those problems may have been out there, but I never had to be concerned about them. I can remember my biggest problem was figuring out where my friends were when I went outside to play. I can remember walking out our front door, pausing and listening for the other kids' voices in play, then finding them. All the while, my parents did not have to be concerned about where we were and if we were getting into trouble. With TV shows that showed us that Eddie Haskell always got his comeuppance, we knew better than to try.
Despite what a lot of our current youth thinks, those were the good old days.
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