Bygone eras... - digg this
It's interesting how much our culture has changed in fifty to sixty years. I see old commercials like this:
and think, "What was going through their heads?". Not so much that they were selling something "dangerous", but that it was a "Johnny Reb" cannon. Then I read articles like this about the live action/animation feature Song of the South and how something like that would never fly today. In the fifties we added "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance. If you tried add to a religious element to anything affiliated with our government today it would get shot down in a second. I see all of these things as progress in certain ways.
And yet our media is filled with more sex, violence, and outright hatred than in any time prior that I'm aware of. There is more division and distrust in our government than I feel is healthy and it's only going to get worse. While technology has certainly made our lives better it has also introduced a new way for predators to have access to our children. Political correctness is an altar on which all too many sacrifice common sense.
Is this a case of three steps forward, two steps back, or are we losing ground?
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Total Number of Comments: 2
Really hard to say if we are losing or gaining ground. Maybe we gain in some areas (justice?) but lose in others (morality). One thing for sure - Johnny Reb would not sell these days because not one would make it (circular reasoning?). Thanks for the trip down memory lane - I think I remember that one :(
Yeah I think you're right. And some of the areas where we're weak involve new technologies or ways of thinking that didn't occur/weren't available to previous generations.
And you're welcome. Thanks for reading!