What was the last 1T like?

[David Horn]

(03-16-2022, 12:11 AM)JasonBlack Wrote: Like most millennials, I clash a bit with boomers over a few issues, but at the same time, from what I do know about the immediate post war period...it's hard not to empathize a little. When you consider that societal values tend to spawn most intensely in a 2T, and that Civics tend to pass on values primarily from the Idealist midlifers around when they were growing up, it means not only strongly enforced conformity, but growing up with values originating 3 turnings (like 60-70 years) ago. 

So I guess the question is: what was it like back then? Did you like it better then? Better now? In what ways did you feel constrained?

I noted Eric's response to this, and share much of it.  I'll try to stick to the 1T.

It was safe and wide open at the same time.  Even as a preteen, I could leave home on a sunny summer morning, and not be expected back before lunch; leave again and return for dinner.  Where I went and what I did was pretty much on the honor system, though stay at home moms all tended to watch-out for children in general.  On the other hand, by my teen years, I noted the lack of openness.  Sex? Sh-h-h-h, not discussed except as a guide to how babies were made -- and none to graphically.  We had many girls get pregnant due to lack of what to do to prevent it, and lack of available birth control in any case.  TV, radio and recorded music were clean as a whistle.  Too sanitary; too boring!