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I like the 50's and 60's, just for a simpler time, I like the old hotrods I would have been a mechanic. I'm not talking about wars or politics just life itself and of course there was bad things too, there always has been and always will be.
There is no better or best. There is just different. The only time is right now ... the rest are memories and hopes. And neither of those are very accurate views of reality.
What would you say was the best time, meaning the best years, like say the 50's, was the best time to live and why? Or is it the best time to live right now?
Well, if one was a women in the 50's trying to earn a living, life was pretty bad no matter how much nostalgia is applied.
But on the whole, a question like "What was the best time......." is like the story of the blind men describing the elephant. Each has his own version according to what he is touching and what is touching him.
As far as life in the USA goes.. the 50s , 60's and 70's.. best movies , tv shows,songs , entertainers, singers , muscle cars, nostalgia, drive ins for movies and food.
Juke boxes , hangin out at the pizza shops, at the shore dances on the boardwalks, do wop , strong presidents, no bias news and when democrats weren't socialists.
Pop culture wise, it seems as if we left our souls in the 90s.
TV, Music, Movies, Fashion Trend, etc. couldn't be anymore bland now, everything corporatesy cookie-cutter. Everything in pop culture until the 1990s was new, unique and progressive. Technology is really the only thing in which we're still innovative. Did we sell our human creativity just for a quick buck?
It depends on how much energy and mass is concentrated in your hands.
That is always fluctuating but in terms of a recent recordable peak, 2000 was the apex.
From now until another world war (assuming enough humans survive that they can repopulate the planet) your lifestyle and ability to consume endless resources is going to decline at about 3 -4% every five years and that's based on the fact that every 5 years there will be another America worth of people on the planet.
It's going to really suck for those people unwilling or incompetent of the ability to readjust their lifestyles accordingly. Thankfully it happens pretty slowly and it happens by market forces so many will readjust and recalculate their lifestyles.
Well, if one was a women in the 50's trying to earn a living, life was pretty bad no matter how much nostalgia is applied.
But on the whole, a question like "What was the best time......." is like the story of the blind men describing the elephant. Each has his own version according to what he is touching and what is touching him.
In other words, "eye" of the beholder.
Life sucked for women before they had the ability to work for 40+ hours a week and leave the raising of their family in the hands of the hired help?
Better Now. Better Medicine, technology, civil rights, and living standards.
America peaked at the ability to use 30% of the world's resources all for their own.
The other 70% was dispersed between 6.7 billion other people.
From this point on, without another world war to destroy competition, that ability to consume like locust is quickly dissolving.
The quicker people realize the freeing up of people will actually help cushion this decline, the better. Regulations, taxes, tariffs, etc will only speed up the decline.
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