Reply #29: well simple is as

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simple does. Having grown up in the 50' and 60's I clearly recognize that life then was very different from now. What we didn't know then has indeed hurt us. The conclusion that lawyers and the government regulating our life is not what changed life as we knew it in my opinion. We are the government and we are the juries that pass judgment on what lawyers bring before us. There is much we can learn from the way we were but there is also much we have changed for the good and not so good. As "feel-goodish" as this message is to me, it is also misleading. I did and continue to encourage my children to play outside but not out of my or other trusted adults' purview. Many things we did mostly out of ignorance were not good. The changes that we have made as a culture for the most part have been positive. Some as is pointed out have not been so beneficial. As to us being a generation that has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever, is only half the story. The other side includes Vietnam, all the George Bushes, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, pollution, being despised around the world for our selfish over consumption of it resources and arrogant enforcement of our way of life on to other cultures far older than our own.
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas, largely because we decided to use the scientific method of inquiry and probably have had outside assistance. Check this out http://www.disclosureproject.org/.
So the good ole daze were just that they were good and they are gone. How shall we live now and in the future based upon what we have learned from them and continue to learn is really more important. But that is just my thoughts on the matter.