Poll:- life better now or in 1959?
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I am glad you realize it is very unscientific countryboy, because it is. Opinions can vary from person to person and can be unreliable. Opinions are influenced by subjective considerations, by personal experience, personal prejudices etc.
Statistical evidence on the other hand is objective evidence. And by almost every statistical indicator, life is much better today compared to 50 years ago.
Oh, it certainly was, countryboy. Along with stereotypes (woman's place is in the kitchen), prejudices (blacks properly belong in the servant and janitor roles), hatreds (gays are the spawn of the Devil, perverts and must be locked up), what was proper and improper to talk about in public (one doesn't talk about child abuse, wife battering etc.) and so on.
Yes, those indeed were the 'Happy Days'.
That's very telling in that such terrible family images should be reflected in your recollections. Perhaps you should ask doctor to refer you to a psychiatrist.
So show us the evidence.
I showed lots in earlier posts. All you've done is spew your opinion.
Perhaps they were where you were in your tiny little world, but things were pretty decent where other people were.
Like I said before, have people quit starving in Africa? No. Has pollution been stopped? No, it's actually worse now. Has the quality of life gotten better everywhere? Obviously not. Has bigotry stopped? No. Have wars stopped? No.
Things are just different. Some are better, some are worse.
Methinks you're beating your head against a rock, Anna - he just keeps repeating the same 2 or 3 things that we've "achieved" from his hero's Charter. Granted there are a few things that are better today, but mostly they are better bandaids, like taking the dead and making them only half dead, whereas back in '59 they weren't doing the things people do today to make themselves sick in the first place. So I would say that life today is worse but "death" today is better, like there are motorized wheel chairs for them.
Yup. We had 7 people in the seats and 5 in the trunk (with beer) of Rick's '58 Roadmaster when we went to the drive-in one time.
Back in the days when young people were all law abiding, delightful children, I guess.
But of course they were, Tenpenny. They were nice little kids, who did not disobey the adults, who did not say anything against any adult. They were so well behaved that they wouldn’t say a word even when sexually abused by the Catholic Priests, such things just were not talked about in public. And even if they told their parent, the parents probably wouldn’t believe them anyway, the kid probably would get a whipping for telling tales.
You got that right JLM, I never respond to anything Anna says, it is just a waste of time. I have got better things to do than to get into shouting match involving personal insults, personal abuse with anybody here.
These ‘2 or 3 things’ that you claim are as follows:
- life expectancy – much greater today.
- health – much better today
- personal income – much higher today
- living comforts – much better and widespread toady
- standard of living - much higher today
- scientific knowledge - much more advanced today
- Technological innovations – we have technology today which was not even dreamed of 50 years ago, such as microwave, oven, cell phone, computer, DVD and many more.
- racial tolerance – much more widespread today – 50 years ago it was routine, customary to discriminate against women, against blacks, to lock up gays for being homosexual etc. These days they have Charter protection. As a result,
- Civil society - much more humane, more civilized more fair today.
Now, maybe to you these things mean very little, you probably have some fond memories of the ‘good old days’ (and being a white male, you probably did have it easy in the old days, these days white males have to compete with minorities on equal terms). You are entitled to your opinion. However that is not what we find objectively.
LMAO..... 2009 was a RECORD YEAR for complaints filed with the ADL. Sorry Rup but you're waaaaay off.
"You got that right JLM, I never respond to anything Anna says, it is just a waste of time."- That surprises me, Anna is generally right on the money. Anyway S.J. the subject is about better, not more- like we've got more people hooked up to wires and hoses today and yes we've got a higher standard of living if that's watching a 52" T.V. owned by the bank.
Higher income today includes more taxes and more interest payments to the banks. . Another thing is a handshake in 1959 was as good as a yard of "fine print" today..