Ever wish it was the 50's again?

dicky109 wrote in post #9577851
...the last time I checked, no one from Bangalore was sponsoring a local Little League Team...

Bangladesh, either.

being African-American...no.

DStanic wrote in post #9577823
Off the topic of camera stores... Now I'm only 26, consider myself still quite young and inexperienced in life compared to the masses. however I do notice how teenagers and younger people are going to be facing social problems. They walk around with their cell phones texting each other rather then actually TALK. Facebook is replacing "real life".. I don't know if it's because people are becoming lazier, or more antisocial because of today's technology. Maybe I just don't have a clue what I'm talking about. :P

I couldnt agree more. I have actually stopped replying to text messages when people are type ur instead of you're or they us things like 2 instead of two or b4 instead of before. or wut instead of what. It bothers me that this is the way these kids are writing and typing. I have made it a point to make sure my kids are very focused in school. We are active in our kids life. I dont want my kids going down the roads I did (being in trouble with the law).

I see this a lot in my industry. People come in here and cant even describe what they want to get tattooed on them because their social skills are that pathetic lol

</rant> <----- a little something for us nerds. HAHAHA

Razeus wrote in post #9597639
being African-American...no.

Totally slipped my mind, hard to believe racism was so common little as 60 years ago. Now it's just ignorant people who are racist

I'll take now over the fifties anyday. Things not to miss: race riots, segregation, polio, bomb scares, McCarthy, hulahoops (they're still doggin' us to this day) and long skirts.

i was born in the 80's but yes i wish it was the 50's again so that i can sneak out anytime no cellphones, no tracking, no digital whatsoever...its so much easier to be alone

and the Philippines is much nicer then... than now

I think I'd take today over the 50's -- through inflation-adjusted metrics the odds are good we'd all be less wealthy, fewer of us could enjoy the art of photography we are all attracted to.

Or maybe we could, but I take it as a given we'd have to fight our gear more to do the same work today.

Karl Johnston wrote in post #9599032
Totally slipped my mind, hard to believe racism was so common little as 60 years ago. Now it's just ignorant people who are racist

It wasn't a great time to be a woman either, but the same could be said for 99% of recorded history.

Karl Johnston wrote in post #9599032
Totally slipped my mind, hard to believe racism was so common little as 60 years ago. Now it's just ignorant people who are racist

No, don't fool yourself. While the ability to elect Obama proved things have changed with the X, Y, and Net generations, it also brought out in full flames the residual racism in the Boomers and remaining War generation.

MikeFairbanks wrote in post #9599364
I'll take now over the fifties anyday. Things not to miss: race riots, segregation, polio, bomb scares, McCarthy, hulahoops (they're still doggin' us to this day) and long skirts.

Long skirts can be very nice. It's the long dowdy skirts that are unattractive.

If you were white... upper or middle class then the 50s were great.. if you were anyone else.. no thanks.

monk3y wrote in post #9599399
i was born in the 80's but yes i wish it was the 50's again so that i can sneak out anytime no cellphones, no tracking, no digital whatsoever...its so much easier to be alone

and the Philippines is much nicer then... than now

I was in the Philippines in the 80s. Much, much is nicer now than then in many areas, and I suspect nicer than the 50s. More people today, for instance, have potable water.

I remember when cell phones first struck the Philippines--cell phones boomed in the Philippines much earlier and more quickly than in the US.

I wasn't around in the fifties, so no. But even since the seventies I have seen changes i wish we could reverse but know we won't. The anonimity of being part of an ever increasing population with ever widening avenues of interaction has brought an element of rudeness that will be part of our lives for the duration I am afraid. If someone gave you the finger in traffic in the seventies, there was a good chance it would be a problem for them in the near future, but now a finger isn't even given a thought and any retribution would be an act of aggression that society would be more likely to punish.
We are able to anonamously treat each other rudely with no fear of consequence, in traffic, in public, and especially on the internet. Small wonder that service and accountability also suffer, there is a generation of kids coming up that have never even seen it.
I don't miss the fifties, but politeness and mutual respect will always be missed.
One thing never changes, old codgers have been singing this song forever. If anyone on here is old enough, they miss the thirties and think the fifties were the start of todays sorry state. And so it goes....

birdfromboat wrote in post #9602354
I wasn't around in the fifties, so no. But even since the seventies I have seen changes i wish we could reverse but know we won't. The anonimity of being part of an ever increasing population with ever widening avenues of interaction has brought an element of rudeness that will be part of our lives for the duration I am afraid. If someone gave you the finger in traffic in the seventies, there was a good chance it would be a problem for them in the near future, but now a finger isn't even given a thought and any retribution would be an act of aggression that society would be more likely to punish.
We are able to anonamously treat each other rudely with no fear of consequence, in traffic, in public, and especially on the internet. Small wonder that service and accountability also suffer, there is a generation of kids coming up that have never even seen it.
I don't miss the fifties, but politeness and mutual respect will always be missed.
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Great post and well said. There have been a lot of sociological implications as we moved from a "nuclear society" to an "industrial society", and I agree 100% about the correlation between anonymity and rudeness. I wasn't around in the 50's either (came onto the scene in the 60's), and while the 50's may not have been Nirvana in every aspect of life, I would certainly like to go back to "simpler" times.

It is a nostalgic myth that the 50s were any less rude or any more simpler than today. Whether people treated you rudely was--as today--totally a matter of who you were and what "station" of life you held.

Whether life was simpler was also a measure of how much money you made. There was nothing "simple" for a woman running a home without today's modern appliances, there was nothing "simple" about working in a factory without today's automation and safety procedures.