There is belief and then there are historical truths

But, the further back you go in history the less you are sure about usually. However, enough people usually remember battles where many people died or things like this so battles and wars are usually better represented than who was married to who and their children and what all that was like back then.

So, when you study beings like Saint Germain or Jesus historically it leaves a lot to be desired in regard to facts. So, in the end you wind up with: "What do you believe actually happened then?"

For example, I hear people sometimes talk about the 1960s and 1970s and it always sounds like a caricature only if they were not alive then. 

The diversity and thinking of those times was completely different than now. At least in the media all over things are completely different. To me, the biggest difference then was that there was no internet or social media to make our children go completely insane from social media. This is the biggest difference. So, you didn't have children committing suicide because of social media like you do now. 

However, the abuse of children by parents and guardians and strangers and each other on many levels was much worse then than now. Unless you knew how to run and to protect yourself from abused children who often became bullies in school or other places you could easily be put in the hospital or die then too.

But, getting beat up or stabbed with a knife was much more common in the 1960s and 1970s and 1950s than now.

So, generally speaking people are more sophisticated and less like animals now than they were in the 1950s and 1960s and 1970s. However, that being said you are much more likely to be shot now than then. In the 1950s through the 1970s there was a pride in not using guns. Only the Mafia or armies used guns on other people (except in very extreme circumstances) generally speaking. So, if people were going to attack each other (civilians) generally they used their fists or clubs or knives and not guns. It's just the difference between then and now.

The point being that historical truths are harder and harder to come by as time goes by from those eras. And often people might not believe what people really were like in general of another era, especially the 1960s and 1970s.

There were all types of people then just like now. There weren't just hippies and people like Nixon back then and there are not just one kind of person now either. There were always all kinds of people in each different era. Some people are okay and others completely crazy pretending to be normal just like now always.