What generation was the most opposite of normal?

Mr. Ed

Mr. Ed

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I would have to say our generation, not that we were all off our rocker, rather we were farther away from the norm in reference to the generations before us. This assumption is untrue based on the roaring 20s, prohibition, Wild West days and so forth and so on.
Were we the wildest generation as opposed to other generations? LSD was not an invented commodity during world war 1 or 2, Yes true but Cocaine and opium derivatives were easily had at your local pharmacy or traveling medicine show.

A president was assassinated, two civil rights leaders and Nixon was impeached for cheating and his hand propitiating the Viet Nam War. Some nasty developments during our watch and we are unique in that manner.
 

going back to what we know from what those coliseums in Rome were set up for...the barbaric acts of war....the barbaric acts of many...for that matter...forever been going on from generations of old
 
hawkdon said:
Who's to be the judge of normal 🤪????
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Indeed, the answer here would depend on whom is defining "normal".

We saw a lot of nonsense in our time, and so much change. I mean, the world of today doesn't have a whole lot to do with the one I grew up in.

So much of what we thought was important/cool, like color TV's, going to the cinema, platform shoes ( :D ) are no passe. Economic models are morphing, politics are going full circle, and what constitutes "entertainment" is extended periods of navel gazing.
 
Paladin1950 said:
Yes and we encouraged the British to invade our radio airwaves with beatles, stones, animals, hermits, zombies, kinks, who. Who? Whoever. They all came ove in a led zeppelin.
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The USA also gave a home to many who went on to become something of a celebrity. Off the top of my head I can think of:
Leslie Townes Hope (Bob Hope,) Elizabeth Taylor, Charles Spencer Chaplin (Charlie Chaplin,) Keifer Sutherland, Angela Lansbury, Jerry Springer, A little-known fact about former American politician and TV host Jerry Springer was that he was born in the London Underground. That's right, Jerry Springer came into this world in Highgate Underground station in 1944, when it was being used as a bomb shelter during the WWII Blitz. His parents were Jewish refugees who'd escaped to London from Germany.

Given time I can probably think of a few more.
 
I think I have no right to determine what's weird. But the present times try me often and I do believe there have few times in human history where basics were so hard to define. :unsure:
 
I've heard it said that the worst mistake humans ever made was to leave the hunter/gatherer lifestyle for the agricultural life style which was not only harder in a physical sense but also created more loneliness (less gathering together because living apart on different farm patches) and led to the worship (ugh) of property and (ugh) competition. So that might make that (those?) generation(s) the most abnormal going against human nature like that.
 
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To believe in the concept of "generations", you have to assume that everybody born between x and y ALL think alike. It's like saying everybody born on April 23, 1956 is Democrat, and everybody born on April 24, 1956 is a Republican. Clearly that never happened. Most people who are alive at a certain time share moments of history. Example- WWII affected all from the age of 5 to 99, not just one "generation".
And everybody thinks their time alive is the most trying.
 
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