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It also keeps our brain healthier and helps to prevent memory loss and dementia. When was the last time you memorized a phone number or anything like that?
True, but I do have to memorize a lot of passwords these days...
Nostalgia for the past is casting a rosy glow on your fading memories that never existed back then.
It's common.
Everyone remembers their youth vividly. Childhood is full of first experiences, and the first are always remembered the longest and the most affectionately.
Over time, people remember the worst times and the best times in their lives, and the big middle gets forgotten.
When we were kids/young adults and political music played on the radio or MTV we just didn't pay much attention to the message. There was anti-Reagan music in the 80s but I don't know anyone my age who was anti-Reagan and we still liked the rock music coming out at the time from some liberal artists. There was rebellion music but it was just generational angst, not politics.
We watched the hippies be very political in the earlier generation and they seemed angry and confused.
Ate better food? Really -- part of the problem was all the stuff in the 60's and 70's. Packed, processed, salty, sweet.
Few people grew up on fresh veggies year round. We had canned foods, other people in my age group remember frozen foods.
Lots of bread, carbohydrates....no accounting for fat content, trans fats, salt......
LOL. Good Lord, do you want to compare obesity rates from the 60's-70's with now? Really? There were 1 or 2 fat kids in my classes when I was growing up. I was good friends with one of them, and he was made fun of often for his weight. Now 75% of the kids are near what he was as a lone oddball in the 70's.
I was way little in the late 40's. Everybody was involved in the war effort. Due to the draft we all had uncles, cousins brothers in the war. Then there was the coming home' Industry was humming to provide cars, refrigerators and washing machines that nobody could get for the past few years.
By 1957, jeering crowds lined the road across from the parking lot as minorities walk to class. In my town, a few years after brown v. board things got real political with people doing everything they could to get out of integrated schools. The were warming up for the Civil Rights movement. I guess Leave It To Beaver provided escape for people in denial.
There wrest ins. The 16th Street Baptist church was bombed, killing some little girls in 1963. Then came JFK in 1963, we all saw that on tv. Then came Goodman, Chaney and Schweren in 1964, Malcomb X in 65, MLK in April 1968, then RFK. Some of us saw Bobby shot on live tv. All while this is going on, my favorite candidate was labeled an insane war monger. He lost and we got the Gulf of Tonkin.
While all this was going on, The Feminine Mystique hit the shelves. That started a separate movement that turned some people inward, in denial about that, too. Some still are mad as hell. Uppity women need to hush.
Now comes Viet Nam protest. DH told me if I got arrested, protesting at the ROTC building at Wash U, he would not bail me out of jail.This all went on for years. The picture of the naked napalmed girl running turned the tide. The most heartless warmongers had a hard time denying that.
By the mid 70s things had calmed down in Houston. We were not even concerned about the huge population of undocumented people in Texas building our houses. The only problem was traffic congestion and one third of the drivers in Harris county had no car insurance. Life was good for my kids.
I have never known a time that was not political. IMO, most Americans now consider themselves consumers, not citizens.
Just wait until they discover capitalism does not work for 90% of us.
LOL. Good Lord, do you want to compare obesity rates from the 60's-70's with now? Really? There were 1 or 2 fat kids in my classes when I was growing up. I was good friends with one of them, and he was made fun of often for his weight. Now 75% of the kids are near what he was as a lone oddball in the 70's.
Even when my kids were in school there was one fat kid in the school. Maybe one classroom had an active kid. Now, I'm told by school teacher relatives there are about 1/4 special needs, ADHD, etc per class. One teacher needs many teaching skills. But that overweight has to do with no recess or PE, suburban living with no walking.
In the 70s, one of my neighbors made a good living selling tank cars full of corn syrup.
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