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femrap

(13,418 posts)
11. Everyone looks back and
Sat Nov 3, 2012, 12:12 PM
Nov 2012

sees something different...I was 10 in 1962 living on a farm with clean air and eating corn on the cob and strawberry shortcake. I was lucky to live where schools were highly regarded as well as teachers. It was unheard of to drop out of school. The music was great, bullies were few, (the worse they did to me was call me fat...I swiftly kicked them in the shins).....too much corn on the cob, I guess.

My mother was divorced and was the breadwinner....and yes, if she got pregnant, she would have been fired from her job. I was not allowed into certain homes because my parents were divorced. Only Liz and Richard got divorces in those days.

What I remember is civility and manners. And not so crowded. No road rage. Children could walk the streets and ride their bikes without helmets. We spent our summers at the local pool with our transistor radios. And The Beatles were coming and everyone started to look at the world differently. Peace became something desirable and even possible. I still had Hope....lots of it.

Unions were strong and no one resented them. People cooked. Eating at McDonald's was a rarity.

I'm glad I'm old. I would hate to be a girl growing up in today's technological 24/7 MSM propaganda where beauty and Hollywood fame is all that matters.

And we are still listening to The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Stones, Janis Joplin, The Who, and Jimi Hendrix...and the great Soul Music out of Detroit.

Now I look back at the days of Watergate and Tricky Dick (who is the model for RobMe's campaign...just keep changing your story until it fits whatever the political middle is) and see he was just a soft Teddy Bear compared to the Evil we are faced with today.

And Corporations knew their place in society. We still shopped at mom and pop stores.

The only hope I have these days is that the Mayans are correct and come the end of this year, we see a shift in this destructive, macho, competitive paradigm to one of cooperation and equality.

I wouldn't mind one iota if Mother Earth shrugged and turned on her axis throwing the Greedy into outer space or deep into the ocean. This happens every 26,000 years....I always thought I'd be here to experience it. It's time to hit the Reset Button.





When you're in your twenties, enlightenment Nov 2012 #1
I'm going to assume you're a white heterosexual man. nt sufrommich Nov 2012 #2
You don't have to assume it nichomachus Nov 2012 #3
I think he is trying to say it would be even worse than 1962, not saying that 1962 wasnt bad stevenleser Nov 2012 #27
1962, eh? The civil rights movement was just getting underway and MineralMan Nov 2012 #4
I believe I mentioned that nichomachus Nov 2012 #5
It was very far from perfect. MineralMan Nov 2012 #6
If you want to be pedantic, you're right Not Sure Nov 2012 #9
Having lived through that time means that I'm not being pedantic. MineralMan Nov 2012 #10
+ infinity SemperEadem Nov 2012 #23
++++++++ Whisp Nov 2012 #25
I should have said straight white male. MineralMan Nov 2012 #26
all I heaven05 Nov 2012 #28
Yes. The Republicans would take us to a dark, dark place. MineralMan Nov 2012 #29
Everyone looks back and femrap Nov 2012 #11
+10000 heaven05 Nov 2012 #20
I grew up in femrap Nov 2012 #30
well heaven05 Nov 2012 #34
While most of your post is a nice read, I just can't let those last 2 paragraphs go unanswered. DRoseDARs Nov 2012 #31
no heaven05 Nov 2012 #35
I don't believe I femrap Nov 2012 #36
Romney would take us places none of us have ever been reserved for Central Europe in the 1930-1945 gordianot Nov 2012 #7
Yet... femrap Nov 2012 #14
I thought we were headed femrap Nov 2012 #8
The post you are referring to was not intended to be a historical comparison between now and plethoro Nov 2012 #12
In 1962, my mom was fired for getting pregnant gollygee Nov 2012 #13
Probably from a low paying job she got by looking under sufrommich Nov 2012 #16
True, but 50 years ago treestar Nov 2012 #15
He won't take us anywhere Johonny Nov 2012 #17
These are my thoughts also. If Romney wins the days plethoro Nov 2012 #21
got heaven05 Nov 2012 #22
Everyone I know has started preparations, from cursory to exhaustive. I am in the middle....Good plethoro Nov 2012 #24
When I listen to his policies, I picture the pre-Medieval era ecstatic Nov 2012 #18
Actually, republicans aren't that crazy about the Magna Carta, MsPithy Nov 2012 #19
90 years? Hell they want to take us back to feudalism!!! Initech Nov 2012 #32
Take it back about *150* years and you'd have that about right - The Robber Baron/Gilded Age We People Nov 2012 #33
Good point. I miss the 60s. I really, really miss the 70s. yardwork Nov 2012 #37
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