This was true for everyone. Unless you knew the basics very young and grew up very fast you didn't grow up at all. This was just how things were then.
I said in a previous article that "Everyone knew that if you didn't learn from your past and present you couldn't have a useful future". That isn't entirely true. What is true is if you didn't understand this young you didn't usually survive to 20 or 30 in the first place then.
So, literally ANYONE who survived to 30 knew that you had to learn from your past and future to go on past then.
I look at surviving the 1950s a lot like piloting a plane. If I were to compare life in the 1950s to now the 1950s were like piloting a plane. It seemed like 1/2 of the people just crashed and died then.
If I compare it to now, now would be like riding a motorcycle which is about 10% as dangerous as piloting a small plane by yourself.
You might ask why it was difficult to survive the 1950s?
The first reason was most people were very ignorant (in otherwords most people hadn't even finished high school and many people couldn't read in the 1950s). This was the first thing. So, you were always hearing stories that could not be believed that people often took for facts in every direction. So, people died a lot by believing in the wrong things.
To some degree this is still true and always has been for hundreds of thousands of years. It's just a part of the human condition. But, now here in 2018 at least you can take out your IPhone and look on the Internet and ask almost any question imaginable fact wise and get some kind of answer.
When I was 6 years old through high school if I wanted to know something that my parents didn't know I would either have to ask my teacher in school or ride my bike to the local library and often even then I might not be able to find an answer to a question I had.
This is just on one level just how much things have changed since then.
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