As a child of the 50s now recently retired, this blog is one man’s personal view about changes over the past five decades. It will deal with life’s annoyances and frustrations, behaviour, contradictions, the onward march of political correctness and the sometime demonisation of those of us who may not always accept the received wisdom of the day in areas such as global warming, society and politics.
Some topics are small, trivial and better viewed through a humerous prism, others are much more serious and have had or are still having serious consequences for us all, and particularly in my home country the UK.
It is deliberately and by design, partial, and a comment on the unacceptable changes in life and society. The writer fully accepts and rejoices in the fact that there have been many advances elsewhere. This blog is not about those.
The 50s in the UK are generally recognised to be a time when nothing much happened, something of a grey era. Perhaps not surprisingly since food rationing from WWII did not end completely until 1954, and much of the country, its people and its infrastructure were still recovering from the war. The heady delights of the 60s were still a decade away.
Those were simpler and gentler times, and certainly more restrictive in many ways. But arguably and ironically, those very restrictions perhaps led to a system where standards of acceptable behaviour were second nature and uncommented. Nobody thought much about them they were just there and unquestioned. Respect for authority still existed and the anti-Establishment 60s, on balance a force for good change, were still to come.
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