Growing up in the 1950s

Growing up in the 1950s these are some of the things you might expect to endure any day from ages 10 through 17:

To have people say bad things about you or your mother
To have people say they were going to kill you in recess at school or afterwards
To have people hit you in the arm or stomach or face without warning or reason maybe just because they woke up on the wrong side of the bed that day or they had no food to eat for breakfast
If you walked more than a block from where you lived in any neighborhood you could be accosted or attacked by boys there just for riding through their territory on a bicycle
So, it was safer to ride through major streets of towns often to avoid these confrontations where people generally didn't live

But then you had to deal with getting hit by cars on your bicycle.

So, I learned to develop responses to all this:

If someone was my size or smaller and attacked me I hit them back twice as hard as they hit me, to discourage them from hitting me. If I could demonstrate I was much stronger or bigger than they were they would usually stop hitting me or yelling at me.

Unless they were completely crazy like many kids born then that should have been aborted who had been tortured by their mothers because they didn't want to have them in the first place and they ruined the mother's lives when they got pregnant too young and were stuck in poverty ever after.

If they were crazy you tried to run away because this sort could be lethal. In other words they were so crazy from not being aborted when they should have been that they might kill you accidentally or on purpose.

So, you had to judge whether these people were bigger than you, crazier than you or smaller than you in every confrontation. To make a bad judgement might mean you would die or have to go to the hospital and stay quite a while.

So, figuring out what was actually going on in every situation was going to save your life in the short and long run.

People then, were generally much more violent during their teens than now.

People now are generally much more repressed so if something happens people just get a gun and shoot each other.

But, in the 1950s it wasn't like that at all. There were always many many fights in school or after but people didn't die that much then. They might have gotten hit or cut with a knife or hit with a club but generally speaking when people were allowed to argue and fight they got over it with short stays in the hospital rather than killing each other.

So, less people actually died then and more people had stab wounds and broken arms and faces and legs then. But many less died when people were allowed more to confront each other. I think that was healthier than what happens now.

I think political correctness is a mistake that just makes some people kill each other from all the craziness.

At least then people were honest about how they actually felt even if it caused violence sometimes.

You knew where you stood more than. Now it is so fake you don't know where you stand at all. It just makes people more crazy than they were in the past and many more people die but less get maimed.

It was crazy then but this was a craziness of how it had already been for thousands of years.

Now it is crazy in an unreal confusing sort of way.

Now things are just fake and more people die from guns than before because by not arguing and fighting first it just causes death from all the inflated egos with nowhere to put their anger in a useful way to resolve things.