Anyone here wish they'd experienced 1967?

[Higgins]

Yes, before any other comments, the 1960s were a worse time racially than today. I'm not pining for that. But, you hear so much about the "summer of love", that I've always been captured by the summer of 1967. Star Trek on TV. Sean Connery as James Bond. Batman still on TV. Psychedelia. The clothes. The way women dressed. The sexual freedom without fear of HIV. It seems like a beautiful calm in a decade that was one big storm.

Anyone else feel the same way about 1967?

[OSR stands with Israel]

I would rather have lived in the 1980s then the 1960s anyday.


1980s Movies and TV Shows> 1960s Movies and TV Shows
1980s Sports>>> 1960s Sports ( NBA and NFL was way better in the 1980s)
Economy was getting better in the 1980s while it got worse and worse in the 1960s
Tech was way better in the 1980s



1983 -1989 over any year of the 1960s pretty easily

[Mr. Reactionary]

I prefer the internet and not fearing nuclear annihilation.

[Higgins]

I would rather have lived in the 1980s then the 1960s anyday.


1980s Movies and TV Shows> 1960s Movies and TV Shows
1980s Sports>>> 1960s Sports ( NBA and NFL was way better in the 1980s)
Economy was getting better in the 1980s while it got worse and worse in the 1960s
Tech was way better in the 1980s



1983 -1989 over any year of the 1960s pretty easily

The 1960s was pretty much a boom from 1961 through late 1969. The bust didn't happen until the end of 1969 and stagflation didn't hit until around 1973. 1961-1973 is generally considered a high point in America's economy.

[Technocracy Timmy]

I'd pick the period of 1946-1963 if I had to relive any moment in American history.

[Higgins]

Economy was getting better in the 1980s while it got worse and worse in the 1960s

The Recession of 1969–1970 was a relatively mild recession in the United States. According to the National Bureau of Economic Research the recession lasted for 11 months, beginning in December 1969 and ending in November 1970,[1] following an economic slump which began in 1968 and by the end of 1969 had become serious, thus ending the second longest economic expansion in U.S. history which had begun in February 1961 (only the 1990s saw a longer period of growth).

So yeah, pretty much 1961-1968 was one big period of expansion, with the recession only starting at the very end of 1969. Nixon's short sighted economic policies to win re-election staved off stagflation until his second term.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I, like any red-blooded, God-fearing American, prefer to experience any decade when compared with the present. As history shows, every decade has been worse than the one preceding it.

[Goldwater]

No (likes modern technology)

[Lechasseur]

I would rather have lived in the 1980s then the 1960s anyday.


1980s Movies and TV Shows> 1960s Movies and TV Shows
1980s Sports>>> 1960s Sports ( NBA and NFL was way better in the 1980s)
Economy was getting better in the 1980s while it got worse and worse in the 1960s
Tech was way better in the 1980s



1983 -1989 over any year of the 1960s pretty easily

[Arturo Belano]

I prefer the internet and not fearing nuclear annihilation.

[Beet]

In 1967 at least things were getting better. Now things are getting worse every day.

[Santander]

Is Higgins to the 60s what Naso is to the 80s?

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

I'm certainly fine in the present. I like being treated like a human being.

[progressive85]

I'd go forward, not back.  I know what happened back then, I know I'm not going to get to see what 2117 is like ):

[SingingAnalyst]

Technically I did (I turned 1 in Sept. 1967). 1967 was a time of almost unparalleled optimism. In some ways I would like to go back. But then I recall what a culture shock it would be: the overt racism and sexism, the overt boy-on-boy bullying of boys who seemed "unmanly" in some way-- and then I consider myself happy to live in 2017.

[Sumner 1868]

60s revisionism is the worst. In reality 1967 was awful. The Vietnam War was in full swing, the civil rights movement was collapsing into factions, the inflation crisis was beginning, and the War on Poverty was being scaled back for war funding.

[Mr. Reactionary]

60s revisionism is the worst. In reality 1967 was awful. The Vietnam War was in full swing, the civil rights movement was collapsing into factions, the inflation crisis was beginning, and the War on Poverty was being scaled back for war funding.

And then next year would be 1968.