Do you think you could go back to living like we did in the 70's?

[Overitall]

Ah, the 1970's! Great music, some good TV shows, gas shortages, high interest rates, stagflation, the decline of unions, terrorism and high jacking, the a Cultural Revolution killing millions, the Cold War at its height, hot wars in Indochina, Africa and the Middle East, brutal military juntas all over South America and Meso-America; not to mention Indonesia and the slaughter there, horrendous water pollution, acid rain, smog and worst of all, Disco! No. I hate computers and refuse to own a smart phone but the 1970's sucked for most of the world, so no going back for me. Now is pretty good even with pandemics and conflicts aplenty still; unless your an Uighur, an Afghan, a Yemeni, an Ethiopian or a Haitian.

No going back.
Evilroddy.

Of course there's also this thanks to the seventies.

Behind the big drop in euthanasia for America's dogs and cats

Fido and Fluffy are far more likely to survive a stint at the animal shelter today than 40 years ago. Population control and better practices by shelters and pet owners have improved the lot of dogs and cats.

www.csmonitor.com

In the 1970s, animal shelter populations and euthanasia rates hit their peak. Overrun with stray animals, shelters routinely "put to sleep" animals they couldn't make room for, Fricke says. "That is the lowest point anyone can remember, when we were euthanizing some 20 million animals every single year," she says. "They were healthy and adoptable animals that no one wanted and no one had homes for."

 

[Evilroddy]

Of course there's also this thanks to the seventies.

Behind the big drop in euthanasia for America's dogs and cats

Fido and Fluffy are far more likely to survive a stint at the animal shelter today than 40 years ago. Population control and better practices by shelters and pet owners have improved the lot of dogs and cats.

www.csmonitor.com

Overdidit:

You just had to go there, didn't you. You couldn't help yourself. Well, you be you I guess.

Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.

 

[Overitall]

Overdidit:

You just had to go there, didn't you. You couldn't help yourself. Well, you be you I guess.

Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.

Did I fail to mention to you that I'm evil?

 

[Kreton]

Does anyone else find it amusing to see people bitch about social media on... what is essentially a social media website?

I hate social media, but enjoy a good discussion. Those rarely happen here much anymore.

The problem with social media is it allows manipulative assholes unlimited access to easily duped morons. There is a lot of good in social media. But given the stupidity of people, the good does not outwiegh the bad.

 

[trixare4kids]

We can really never go back though admittedly, the seventies were some of the best years of my life.
A lot of social change for women...
I was married in '72, went to Europe for my first time, graduated from college. Got a real job, a career going, bought a house, and my first dog paid for with my own money. Got our first seasons tickets to see Da Bears... Plus, the best of all, my children were born in the seventies.

The movies, (The GodFather, The Exorcist, Dear Hunter,), the great music goes on forever, (Clapton, The Doobie Brothers, Earth, Wind and Fire, the Eagles, Michael Jackson) TV, all were better in the seventies. I loved watching Little House on the Prairie and Dukes of Hazard, Sesame Street, Brady Bunch and Andy Griffith show reruns with my children...Saturday Night LIve. It seemed that there were some really good dramas on TV too; the birth of the mini series like Roots.

People wrote letters and sent cards. For the religious, we exchanged Christmas cards. Relationships seem to be more personal because you knew someone really cared when they put a stamp on their letter instead of sending out a sentiment in a blanket greeting from the comfort of their iPhones. However, I'd be lying if I said that I didn't love my iPhone...especially when communicating and exchanging photos with my family and friends out of state.

So while I have the ability to go back with fond memory, I pretty much love the convenience of the Internet and wouldn't go back.

 

[btthegreat]

When I stop to think of how easy it is now to get information on any subject, I am in awe of the internet.
I remember with great pain the hours and days I spent researching card catalogs and getting resources inter-library loaned to me when I had to do a research paper. To find fun facts I had to try an encyclopedia (probably out of date and not comprehensive) or call the research librarian. To check spelling I needed the dictionary handy. Oh, that part of life is so much easier.

I won't go into the ways it's a pain in the ass.

Young people cannot imagine how different it was to write and then type out a two page essay before this notion of a "word processor' If you typed 'tiped' instead of 'typed' on that paper. It just sat there and it stared at you until you found this little white liquid in your desk drawer, with the miniscule brush and brushed that error away and retyped that one letter back in..... If you wanted to move the fifth paragraph, down below the seventh paragraph, you had to grab a new sheet of typing paper, and retype that whole damn thing!.


They would go insane trying to do a 'rewrite' like that.

 

[CharloTexan]

I'd go back for a couple of weeks as a vacation. It would be fun to drive around and check out my old house on the way to making some serious investment purchases. Maybe I'd do a year so that I could make it to December of 80 and just dump everything into Apple.

As for no internet or smart phones, **** that.

If you're going to December of '80, can I get you to go by The Dakota in NY City and please stop John Lennon from being murdered on the 8th?

 

[Pound4abrown]

Nope.
And why anyone would want to regress to that time and its perceived nostalgia, I will never know.

 

[Demon]

I took this poll as meaning just going back to no cell phones and no internet, not going back to the days of Vietnam and to the actual 70's. Which in some ways wouldn't be so bad either, although some seem to think we didn't have heat or air conditioning back then, lol.

 

[Helix]

If you're going to December of '80, can I get you to go by The Dakota in NY City and please stop John Lennon from being murdered on the 8th?

That would be on my to do list. Of course, I have to ask myself what else that would change.

 

[bearpoker]

Can we be 9 again knowing what we know now?

Knowing what we know would spoil the whole "being 9" experience.

 

[SheWolf]

Sigh

There was still a "cancel culture" in the 70s. The difference is that it was primarily the right, not the left, that ostracized people.

For example, anyone who was outed for being gay -- and yes, that kind of thing happened long before Twitter existed -- could expect to be fired, shunned, and discriminated against.

It should also be screamingly obvious that there was a lot more discrimination against minorities and women in the 70s than today.

But hey, who cares about the rights of women and brown people? They don't matter, right?

On a side note, I find it hilarious that right-wingers are screeching about the "horrors" of identity politics, when they engage in identity politics all the time to justify their positions.

There was also a lot of political assignations targeting black and civil rights leaders. Cancel culture occurred at gun point sometimes. Today, Grim is scared of what? Getting a 30 point auto ban for breaking DP rules. We know who the 70s were better for in terms of culture wars and cancel culture.

 

[noonereal]

Why would I want to go back to the 70s?

I have a car that starts every time I turn the key, the world on my fingertips on radio, TV, and internet, and my house has heat and air conditioning.

Defense rests.

Yep, this is how I feel,

 

[d0gbreath]

As long as I can wear Levis Big Bell bottoms, I can handle the rest.

 

[Marrybore]

Does anybody remember how depressing the 1970s were? Not to mention the '80s were just around the corner...