Why wasn't I born in the 60s?
Agent 008
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Let's face it, that was the golden age of the Western Civilisation.
I mean, even science-wise, all the major inventions were made back then - modern computers, the internet, cell phones, ATMs, you name it. Since then we have pretty much just been improving the technology to its limits, without really revolutionizing anything.
Pop culture was never that good, but back then it was wayyyy better than the kinda stuff you get today. Especially this last decade.
It is also pretty clear that our civilisation is in a deep existential, philosophical crisis.
Know how the fall of the Roman Empire spanned several centuries and many generations? I feel like I was "lucky" enough to be born in those times. Not a very good feeling.
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People didn't talk about it much, but they were just as kinky as they are today.
It's not just vagina hair. It's everything we take for granted each day that they didn't have, like air conditioning and internet porn.
They had A/C in the 60's, dumb ass. Who needs internet porn when you have free love?
Seriously, though. I would have rather lived in the 80's. Maybe spent my teen years in the 70's.
Not everywhere like they do now.
Edit: I think I have the song in the OP on 45 somewhere.
Its funny, today it is both the most controlled and free society in human history. You can get all the information you want; but you can't use it. You can live any lifestyle you want; as long as you keep it to weekends at designated and supervised venues. You can say anything you want; but you better not do it.
Yeah, that's why I said born in the 60s.
This man speaks nothing but the truth. Its almost like the only thing we have anymore is freedom of speech. Also yes, beatniks over hippies.
Actually, to be born in, like, 57 would be good. I'd be 18 by 75, and 23 by 1980, making me old enough to legally go to clubs. I'd be 33 by 1990, and the 90's wasn't a terrible time to have a couple kid's, I'd be 43 at the turn of the century, so I'd have credit and shit, and could afford all the new technology as it came out, and I'd be 53 now, riding out whatever credit I have left in a one bedroom apartment, alone and broken because my wife left me, posting about my life in a post similar to this
You've made some good points there.
Disco just makes me want cocaine.
That Hawaiian girl that turns quickly to face the camera in the middle of it is sexy as hell.
I would like to have been born in 1952. Post-war baby boom, insanely fast technological advances, then a teenager by the mid 60s, experimenting with all sorts of shit. Employable by the 70s, decent economic market, then the 80s are my golden years, then the awesomeness that was the 90s is my chilled, older years.
Ah. Nostalgia. It's bullshit.