Psychology of people who grew up in the 70's

Yes, we were lucky. So much was new at that time....the music, fashion, new exploration and discoveries. Now, everything seems jaded and there is too much emphasis on the ego. I think this is why there are so many people with mental problems.
 
Lavinia said:
Yes, we were lucky. So much was new at that time....the music, fashion, new exploration and discoveries. Now, everything seems jaded and there is too much emphasis on the ego. I think this is why there are so many people with mental problems.
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I don't know if there are more or less mental problems than before. There are certainly more people in the field that treat mental health conditions but that is not an indication that people have mental problems. Mental health is more accepted than before because we understand it better as a condition that can be treated unlike before people viewed mental illness like schizophrenia as a lost of mind and senses that could flip out at anytime causing harm to innocent bystanders.
 
The 70’s sure changed things. The Beatles changed the type of music we listened too. They became popular in the 60’s, but they carried over into the 70’s and were a catalyst in the 60’s that started the British Invasion. There were several marches by the Hippies that also carried over from the 60’s and other groups to stop the Vietnam War.

I think the 60’s and 70’s forced a lot of changes. It was a time of change.
 
I'm too old to relate to this. I grew up in the 50's and 60's. And there is a world of differnce between that and the 70's IMO.

To me the 60's were the decade of change. And the 70's were the tacky decade of shag carpets, water beds, disco, platform shoes, and lime green leisure suits. :ROFLMAO:
 
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Trade said:
I'm too old to relate to this. I grew up in the 50's and 60's. And there is a world of differnce between that and the 70's IMO.

To me the 60's were the decade of change. And the 70's were the tacky decade of shag carpets, water beds, disco, platform shoes, and lime green leisure suits. :ROFLMAO:
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I remember shag carpet, leisure suits and disco. I wasn’t a fan of any of them.
 
I enjoyed that video,@seadoug; thanks for sharing it. One statement that stuck out—I should have written it down!—was something along the lines of being able to discern something that could be risky and exciting from something that is genuinely dangerous. It seems to me that a lot of Gen Z doesn't have the capacity to make that discrimination. Everything seems to be a catastrophe these days.

Like so many others of that era, I grew up a latchkey kid. But my parents were also emotionally neglectful—it was a rather painful combination. It's the main reason why I worked at home so I could also stay at home with my three.
 
Nathan said:
  1. had a waterbed(hated it).
  2. had shag carpet in one apartment(hated it)
  3. had a leisure suit- powder blue(hated it)
  4. Never had platform shoes(hated them)
  5. Disco? Disco was fun, but very tacky
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What's wrong with a shag carpet? We had a white one. I thought it looked very nice. Ah I get it. I didn't have to clean it. My dad cleaned it in the bath and it was a load of work. Then it was sparkling white and a day before she died my rabbit peed on the just cleaned shag carpet. I guess so we wouldn't forget her.
 
"Carl Jung Insights" primary narrative is a criticism against a vague collection of now popular parental behaviors that arose from daytime television talk shows and later Internet social media groups with smartphones. Much I would agree with, except for how it is posed versus just 1970s behaviors.

Well, unlike younger generations that tend to digest such ideas with their own limited experience while using supposed writings of like inexperienced persons of their generation, I actually did grow up in those times. Obvious minor mistake relating that was only a 1970s thing as more correctly posed would state those that grew up before the 1980s lived so. He might have instead stated, that was the LAST USA generation to dominantly do so. In that sense, the post war 1950s and 1960s kids were much more so than those in the 1970s when that began to change.

What "Carl Jung Insights" seems to be getting at is the current isolated from much human normal face to face verbal and non-verbal communication, smartphone generation, that though began in the 1990s was not widely popular, especially with the younger generation, until after 2007 with the first generation Apple iPhone release.

The first element in that social change that I probably disagreed with decades ago was how psychologists attacked parental corporal punishment and in turn legal adult criminal punishments, that IMO has become a huge societal problem with a lack of effective criminal punishments.

In recent days, we've had news of 4 people mass murdered at a birthday party in Stockton by likely youth gang persons who missed their rapper target person and killed others, including 3 innocent kids. When the perpetrators are caught, no one will know their names because politicians in California enacted nonsense black and white laws concerning not identifying youths involved in crimes, however heinous the crimes.
 
Dr.Colosso said:
What's wrong with a shag carpet? We had a white one. I thought it looked very nice. Ah I get it. I didn't have to clean it. My dad cleaned it in the bath and it was a load of work. Then it was sparkling white and a day before she died my rabbit peed on the just cleaned shag carpet. I guess so we wouldn't forget her.
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I think you answered your own question. ;)
 
Although some of the video's points are a bit valid, it just seems way too self glorifying. I think kids that grew up before suburbia had some experiences that were superior to 60s/70s kids, they learned to help on the farm or in their parents store, they learned how to fix things and make inventions to solve difficulties.
 
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