[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by ColdNoMore

My "point" was addressing the inaccuracies of post #23...which was explained very clearly in posts #26/#27.

I think Topspinmo is correct. Things are much worse and our memories are NOT selective. We walked to school and to the library and to our friends house without fear and I knew of no single person who had been murdered in the area I lived growing up. I know people abused their wives but not as much as now with so many using drugs. Think of all of the opioid related deaths in the last year. And all of the robberies to feed drug cravings.

[ColdNoMore]

Domestic Violence: 50 Years Ago, Doctors Called It '''Therapy''' | Time

...we’ve made a lot of progress since 50 years ago when doctors thought “wife beating” was therapeutic. An article in the issue of TIME dated 50 years ago today — Sept. 25, 1964 — highlights a mind-boggling study that concludes couples stay in abusive relationships because their fighting can “balance out each other’s mental quirks.”

Yep, seriously. “Mental quirks.”

What’s most shocking is that doctors believed that a man beating his wife under these circumstances was actually a good thing. They called it “violent, temporary therapy”:

I rest my case, with facts...not emotions/feelings/imprecise recollections.

[graciegirl]

I cannot see how anyone could question how much more crime we have today than in the fifties.

[Bucco]

Originally Posted by ColdNoMore

Domestic Violence: 50 Years Ago, Doctors Called It '''Therapy''' | Time




I rest my case, with facts...not emotions/feelings/imprecise recollections.

I agree.

The world is NOT, NOT even close to what it was back 50 years.

Economically, socially or in any way. The world of Mr Cleaver bringing home the paycheck which takes care of the entire family left us many years ago.

The taboos that kept women from even thinking of college or a professional career (teaching was accepted mainly) are gone and if a woman wanted to work she was frowned on.

Times are different. Some of it is good and some of it is bad.

On here we seem to hone in on all the bad things, and refuse to enjoy the opportunities, the technology and all that brings, just to be able to dream a bit higher than we could.

It is a great world, we have grown lazy and closed minded in our perception of the world. It does not look as it did fifty years ago, so it must be wrong.

I reject that and welcome the advances that we have, and reject taking us backwards.

[Rapscallion St Croix]

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by Bucco

I agree.

The world is NOT, NOT even close to what it was back 50 years.

Economically, socially or in any way. The world of Mr Cleaver bringing home the paycheck which takes care of the entire family left us many years ago.

The taboos that kept women from even thinking of college or a professional career (teaching was accepted mainly) are gone and if a woman wanted to work she was frowned on.

Times are different. Some of it is good and some of it is bad.

On here we seem to hone in on all the bad things, and refuse to enjoy the opportunities, the technology and all that brings, just to be able to dream a bit higher than we could.

It is a great world, we have grown lazy and closed minded in our perception of the world. It does not look as it did fifty years ago, so it must be wrong.

I reject that and welcome the advances that we have, and reject taking us backwards.

Well stated.

[graciegirl]

And if some of us said we were purple, others would say we were chartreuse.

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by Rapscallion St Croix

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[Bucco]

Originally Posted by Rapscallion St Croix

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Instead of searching for a cute pic or graph, I will just say that attitude is the laziness I refer to.

Closed minds will never change, and that is unfortunate....not the not changing but the not being open

It is a great world full of new doors to open, not close....our children and grandchildren will be required to embrace the new world, and I think that is neat and exciting.

Transition INTO the fifties, for example, had good and bad aspects. Some only recall the good.

[graciegirl]

I wish that we didn't have to delete classified every time we want to address the forum.

I am so glad we have deed restrictions.

I am so pleased with the overall attitude and thinking of the majority of Villages.

I am very happy there is little crime here and that The Villages has the best credit rating in the entire country.

I wish that Culvers didn't put as much breading as they do on their fish.

I am overall glad the sun sets in the west even though it heats our back yard.

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

I cannot see how anyone could question how much more crime we have today than in the fifties.

• Death rate for homicide in the U.S. 1950-2015 | Statistic

This statistic shows the death rate for homicide in the U.S. from 1950 to 2015. In 1950, there were 5.1 deaths by homicide per 100,000 resident population in the United States.

In 2015, the rate was 5.7 deaths by homicide per 100,000 resident population in the United States.

Facts matter.

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by Bucco

Instead of searching for a cute pic or graph, I will just say that attitude is the laziness I refer to.

Closed minds will never change, and that is unfortunate....not the not changing but the not being open

It is a great world full of new doors to open, not close....our children and grandchildren will be required to embrace the new world, and I think that is neat and exciting.

Transition INTO the fifties, for example, had good and bad aspects. Some only recall the good.

Yep!

[graciegirl]

Were the 1950s actually safer? - Quora

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

Were the 1950s actually safer? - Quora

First sentence in your link.

No, the world was probably not inherently safer but it was certainly different. People were not nearly as fearful of risk as they seem to be now.

Second to last sentence in your link.

So although it wasn’t actually safer in reality...

Which is EXACTLY the point Bucco was making in his last sentence...in Post #39.

Originally Posted by Bucco

Some only recall the good.

Facts matter...so thank you.

[Bucco]

Originally Posted by ColdNoMore

First sentence in your link.




Second to last sentence in your link.




Which is EXACTLY the point Bucco was making in his last sentence...in Post #39.




Facts matter...so thank you.

Much, if not most, of the fear we feel today has been created and sold to us.

Remember learning how to hide under desks in the early fifties, recall how we feared all Japanese people, and so much more.

Young people, thankfully fully understand how to read facts, and fully understand what actually to fear.