wasnt life so much better? the music, the tv shows, and just life in general , much less stress nothing was hurry hurry , and the cars were, good too
2006-07-29 07:41:21 · 12 answers · asked by crazylarry88 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
yes i did live through them i was born in the 60's, life was so much better then, but the times are changing and im still rollin with the flow
2006-07-29 07:48:37 · update #1
It seems like the last bastian of freedom, doesn't it? We could speak out against the government without being shouted down as Anti-American. In fact, you were encouraged to speak out against something you believed was wrong. We could be liberal without being considered freaks. The music didn't talk about killing people and abusing women, in fact the most scandalous song of the era was "Me and Mrs. Jones," about a man having an affair with a married woman. And the world seemed like it was more fun. Big Business didn't govern our lives so much, and not everyone wanted to be a cutthroat businessman. Can we go back? I miss the disco balls and lava lights!
2006-07-31 03:19:44 · answer #1 · answered by cross-stitch kelly 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I was born in the 70s. I haven't really seen the seventies, but my memories of the 80s and early 90s were also very good. Life has changed all of a sudden in the late 1990s and I think the growth of the internet and computer technologies in general, has a lot to do with the sudden fast pace of life. People's expectations have increased tremendously. Tell me, are there any major scientific, medical, humanitarian, artistic, cultural, social achievements since the late 1990s. The only thing that has improved has been computer technology and its application in everything, from airplanes to elevators, from furniture manufacturing to food production. Life per se has been reduced to techno-slavery. The music post 1995 is a good indicator. Close on the heels of this computer technology is the sudden rise of global terror. Maybe the two are inter-related. Maybe everything is linked to the destruction of the Soviet Union, which was a pacifying factor in the whole world. Maybe if Russia had presidents like Mikhail Gorbachev from the beginning instead of Stalin, it would have been a better world today after all.
2006-07-29 15:26:05 · answer #2 · answered by Suhrud B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes those were the good old days. The music was excellent, it was the golden age of the sitcom, food tasted better even. And yes, all this modern technology that causes all this urgency and makes us ultimately work more was not yet around.
I miss the fashions a lot. Who couldn't miss Sears Toughskins (check out my pic where I am wearing them!) and disco jeans?
But there are many good things now that didn't exist then, such as advances in medicine, and the inventions of cell phones and the internet.
Still I'd love to be able to get back for a day, but maybe most of the good memories are because I was a kid then and just had a lot less responsibility.
2006-07-29 14:49:11 · answer #3 · answered by O'Shea 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OH no!
I do not miss it all all! The good TV shows I can see on Nick at Night and TV Land.
Cars had half the horsepower and no better fuel mileage than the 60's, high unemployment, primitive medical technology, fuel crisis, skyrocketing child poverty, out of sight divorce rate, interest rates and inflation at 20%, Iranian Hostage Crisis, enough nukes to blow the planet up 49 times, Watergate, Vietnam Veterans returning to horrible hostility, no Christmas lights, the implosion of the American automobile industry, the rise of cocaine, not to mention DISCO!
Its funny how selective memory can be...
2006-07-29 14:51:38 · answer #4 · answered by Lisa the Pooh 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OH YES! That's when I had the most fun. Of course I was studying, hanging with friends, discovering kisses and so on. It was when you could say that you hadn't tried something, and tried it if you wanted with no pressure. Disco WOW dancing in groups like if you all went together. It was very easy to make friends. Trying to get into nightclubs even if you were underage because you were tall and looked older. Anyway it was great fun, fun, fun. Thanks for making me remember the good old times.
2006-07-29 15:32:34 · answer #5 · answered by MYG 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was young and stupid then, married twice, divorced once. I missed most of the disco era being a housewife and working mother; and back then women were still fighting for their rights as were minorities.
I don't miss the seventies at all.
2006-07-31 00:21:51 · answer #6 · answered by C R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know. I was born in 1981 so I'm an 80s/90s child.
2006-07-29 19:59:28 · answer #7 · answered by chrstnwrtr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wish I was born in 1950 so I could spend my teens in the '60s..gosh..I was born in '91.
2006-07-29 14:44:58 · answer #8 · answered by kcobain96 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you "miss" the 70's, you never had to live though them...
2006-07-29 14:45:05 · answer #9 · answered by Sean T 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope,born in 91'.....
2006-07-29 15:06:57 · answer #10 · answered by the_trumpet_king 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋