Psychology of People Who Grew Up in the 1960s

[Ocelot II]

52. I remember all the things in that video but I question the conclusions it draws.

Yes, we did the duck-and-cover thing, and there were scary movies about nuclear war - there was a chilling show on TV, maybe it was a made for tv movie, called Alas, Babylon that I still remember. A neighbor even built a bomb shelter. There were sonic booms that would startle the hell out of us. But we also did kid stuff and didn't think about those things all the time. We were free-range kids who were left pretty much to our own devices - go out and play with your friends, don't go too far, come in when it gets dark. Here's a quarter, go to the bakery and buy a loaf of bread and bring back the change. I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan but didn't think they were earth-shattering. I remember the civil rights marches, the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK, the Vietnam war body counts on TV. A lot of consequential shit happened during the '60s but a lot of shit always happens. You are always affected by whatever it is you grew up with. Maybe handling real money and being left unsupervised most of the time made us more independent; I don't know. It didn't necessarily make us better people, though. Some of us grew up to be assholes. The analysis is shallow, probably AI.