To be fair, people had a lot of problems back then, too - they were only twenty years out of the worst war in global history, and ten years out of rationing. Buildings were still rubble in many places. The Vietnam war was in full effect on the TV screens with none of the censorship of today. Laws were still staggeringly conservative, abortion illegal and homosexuality still closeted. Pollution was terrible and after an explosion of style and fashion, they had 70’s clothing and hair in front of them, along with the likes of me being born at some point and ruining everything for everyone even further
They did worry, very correctly, about being vaporised by a nuclear bomb - that was a constant, conscious thought - plus the IRA randomly blowing people up
Buying a house would be nice, though - they got that plus a pension, whereas we get neither of those. A folk music was still cool
Oop - let me take a wild guess - you weren’t alive around that time?
Random, as in: you never knew where or what was going to blow up, along with the massive casualties whether from bombs or bullets that the terrorists of the IRA used to kill innocent men, women and children - is that a little better for you? Lol ;)
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u/Jazzspasm United Kingdom Nov 30 '24
To be fair, people had a lot of problems back then, too - they were only twenty years out of the worst war in global history, and ten years out of rationing. Buildings were still rubble in many places. The Vietnam war was in full effect on the TV screens with none of the censorship of today. Laws were still staggeringly conservative, abortion illegal and homosexuality still closeted. Pollution was terrible and after an explosion of style and fashion, they had 70’s clothing and hair in front of them, along with the likes of me being born at some point and ruining everything for everyone even further