The i in Team
One of the benefits of aging is perspective. It isn't always a good thing, though, because it exposes the current time to the past. In this case, my being a child of the 1960s has given me the perspective of what are called Aging Baby Boomers. Good for me. I started to think (dangerous, I know) about the differences in our society between then and now. We can rule out the obvious ones that even kids could come up with. The one I focused on is the difference in the way we treat each other. The 1960s were a time of great social and political turmoil. There were civil rights issues, protests against the war, and demonstrations demanding women's equality. Those are all social issues, and to a large extent, have been resolved to the satisfaction of the people involved. We could say it was a "simpler time," but that is true of any era that we look back on. Comparatively, the 1930s were simpler, and the decades prior, and so forth. So...