I was reading the comments and someone wrote "I long for the 80's when life was simple" Do you believe that America 🇺🇸 was simple in the 80's?

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Back then we'd cruise around in our cars with friends and listen to the great tunes of the 80's for fun. Yep! You wouldn't believe how simple life was back then. I'm so glad that I was able to experience my life during the simple times. 🙂

ohsheeT · Accepted Answer

The 80's and 90's were great its was a time you didn't have to think about the lies or our government are even the elite running our lives are trying to set themselves up to run our lives
You weren't afraid of things in life on what could happen you basically just made things happen and lived life happy free

It's really kind of sad in a lot of ways that Kids nowadays Won't even Come close to experience in the things that we did

But it's a whole different generation of people that we were outdoor people we were doing things constantly

We rolled in the dirt And we were okay with that because we knew we could take a shower We didn't sit in front of the TV or play video games We went to concerts Into the lake

I would much rather lived in the '80s and 90s and in a kid in today's world but at the same time who knows maybe I would have gone crazy with computers and learned how to code and stuff like that but I still would rather be outdoors and living in the 80s and 90s

FunkyMonkee · Accepted Answer

WAAAAYYYY better than the insanity we have, now!!!

236color · Answer

I think people are nostalgic for a time when they felt safe. You felt safe when you were a kid. Mommy and Daddy protected you, and you didn't understand what was going on. I was born in 1959. I had no idea that WW3 could have started during the Cuban Missile crisis, or at an time after that. I could have ended up dying in a useless war had Vietnam dragged on just a little longer. People in the 80s thought the world was going to hell in a handbasket, just as they always do. Many of the seeds of ours current problems were planted then, Reagan's voodoo economics, a massive ballooning of our national debt, acceleration of greed and consumerism, even the beginning of what was at the time viewed as the miracles that were the beginning of the digital age. Whatever period you see as a former "golden age", somebody older than you views as the moment it all started to fall apart. Someday, we as a species will push too far and snuff out our own light. I'm not a Christian, but I have heard many of them quote a passage about the apocalypse, I think from Revelations, "No one can know the day or the hour". In spite of my lack of faith in the Bible, that rings true.

MrChinaski · Answer

If you happened to be a white, heterosexual nuclear family with steady employment, two kids, a dog and a picket fence, then yes, probably.

On the other hand, many people were vilified, murder rates were high, many conveniences we have now were absent, uncontrolled business cycles saw unemployment above 10% and... then of course there was 'duck and cover'.

I'm sure people will be nostalgic about the 2020s in the 2060s too. Things change. Good things are genuinely lost along the way, but new good things are created.

AviatorTom · Answer

Life is never simple, but the 1980's, as I remember them, were less stressful. than today You knew who your neighbors were, didn't always lock your doors, and talked with people, in person. People were also healthier in general, less obesity.

WhiteSteve · Answer

SimpleR, yes. I think the technology that we’ve created to make our lives easier has backfired and made things more complicated, on many different levels

NathanDavis · Answer

according to my brother... he did have a great and simple life... till I arrived, in 1990... lmfao

gasman70 · Answer

oh, the 1980's were a simpler time, in the earlier part of it, but in the later part of it started the crack era, and then started the gang wars and the started the bloodiest crime era of the United States history, makes now seem like nothing by comparison, per capita.

xawyx-3 · Answer

Most countries were more simple and relaxing back in the 80s, I was just a kid, but I remember the 80s... those were the days :-)

Likes2drive · Answer

I think it was a lot simpler and things were cheaper, I certainly lived it at my age too, definitely better music to listen to and movies

Screenwriter · Answer

Idiocy! Life is always complex due to human interactions. The only thing that might have been simpler is a person was young with no serious attachments, mortgages, children.

exitseven · Answer

The 70s were better. The 80s was devoid of soul.

Paige2006 · Answer

I guess so. The Internet has changed everything.

DonaldDarko · Answer

Better in the 60s and 70s

eagle1951 · Answer

it was better in the 60's and 70's

dudeinohio · Answer

Yeah. Was better then

AgentG111 · Answer

80s were definitely less of a cluster fuck.

fishbone77 · Answer

It was a great time to grow up.

LunarEclipse433 · Answer

Seemed simple but different set of issues

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