People who were raised in the 1950s and after have had to be very adaptable to make it this far

 If you can imagine (if you weren't there) it would be hard to imagine what those times were actually like. Here is one example:

I got to meet people who had been born before or during the Civil War as a child. And people were very different than now because it was a much more ignorant time.(the 1950s and before) People didn't get college degrees like they do now until the Viet nam War in the 1960s and 1970s as a way of not dying in Viet nam through the Draft. So, men who could went to college to get a student deferment to avoid dying in Viet nam through the draft. 50,000 young men (the most being exactly my age born in 1948) died in Viet Nam by the way. So, going to college rather than dying in Viet Nam or walking the streets ever since with major PTSD or dying soon after coming back from Viet Nam from suicide or by the murder suicide of themselves and all their family was something people wanted (Going to college if they could).

This one fact which is so different from now changed people's lives in ways unimaginable to people now.

And for me, a concussion at around 9 years old and the night time seizures from 10 to 15 years of age eventually after almost killing me saved me from having to go die in Viet Nam or worse.

So, being adaptable to whatever happened since the 1950s has allowed a few people my age to actually survive until they are in their mid 70s at this point.

For me, I think the 1960s and 1970s were revolutionary because I lived on the coast in California mostly during these years. I started the 1970s in the San Diego Area and went to Palomar College and San Francisco State University then. But, the times were not like the 1950s at all.

They were completely and absolutely different. The changes began I would say with the introduction of the Birth Control Pill around 1960. People were at first really upset about young people having sex without getting pregnant at first. It was a scandal for the country. You can read about it in old Reader's Digest's of that era of 1960 forward. 

But, by 1967 much wilder things were going on than Birth Control Pills especially in Colleges in California and other states. There were protests all over regarding boys my age dying so much in the Viet Nam War. And no one could really figure out why we were there unless it was "The Domino Theory".