Trying to explain the 1960s and 1970s to people today who didn't live through it would be an impossible task

People today are less extreme in some ways in the ways that they think than then. People then were much more likely to scream their positions in your face but less likely to kill you for these differences. Why?

Because of World War II likely more than anything else and the great Depression and the Korean War and the Viet Nam War and the Cold War.

We were in an entirely different kind of mess then than now.

People were much more likely to go to war then worldwide than now because of basic ignorance about others and lack of knowledge about how others thought and felt about everything.

So, the basic difference in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s was the ignorance of the average person about who people were worldwide. Many or most people had not even finished High School then.

In fact, finishing high school then in the U.S. was sort of like finishing college now in the U.S. so there was this major cross section of people who were ignorant completely of anything that happened more than 10 to 25 miles from them except certain events and even these events often were propagandized so much you couldn't be sure in the news that anything was true then either.

So, there just was this general ignorance about most things in life among most people you might meet then.

So, there was this GREAT Chasm between those who had been to college and those who hadn't been to college and this was a real problem for the whole world then.

either you were a member of the elite who had been to college or you were considered to be ignorant which was it's own kind of problem.

This is much less true now because almost everyone has some college these days in the U.S.

So, the level of knowledge about literally everything likely has expanded 1000% or more since the 1950s to the 1970s now.

And then I was a college student and I thought much differently then than most people who didn't go to college even though most people I grew up with in public school hadn't been to college. However, most people I went to church with did go to college. So there was this difference everywhere you went among people where some people knew all sorts of things and other people often were silly or ignorant completely in what they actually were aware of here on earth.