I recently read an article with the lengthy title, “Psychology says people who grew up in the 1960s and 70s learned 9 life lessons that are rarely taught today.” Well, I grew up in the 1960s and can’t think of a single thing I learned that can’t be learned today.
The article, on some site called Global English Editing, listed things learned then but not now to include:
- Boredom was the birthplace of creativity
- Failure was allowed to sting
- Waiting was simply a part of life
- Unsupervised play was the norm
- Yaha, yada, blah, blah
You can READ ALL NINE HERE
Meanwhile, my experience from growing up back in the Dark Ages was that the Big Mac revolutionized eating in America and Disneyland revolutionized entertainment. Back then, of course, McDonald’s French Fries were cooked in delicious fat, and Disneyland was actually affordable and you could park within a five-minute-or-less walk.
Anyway, my point being — I don’t have one except maybe that the Big Mac and Disneyland pretty much defined modern, postwar America. They and their offshoots still do.
