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Foofoogal said:I needed to read this thread again today.
I do believe the one factor in yesterday and today is drugs. This one factor has to of had the greatest negative affect on the last few generations. Makes me incredibly sad to speak to people I know or knew over my lifetime that drugs have robbed them of the whole persona of who they used to be. There may of always been drugs back into centuries ago and I do know about opium and stuff but I refuse to believe the numbers were as high way back as now.
I only state this here now as like Feathers this little faux community does help at times.
Yes, even though drug addiction has been a constant pariah on the hill of civilization (read the 18th century work by deQuincy, "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater"), it was not as widespread as it got in the latter 20th century. In the 1950s, that which was somewhat limited to musicians, "intellectuals," and laboratory assistants, had by the late '60s become common to the kid on the street. The result was, to paraphrase your statement, the robbing of a whole generation's innocence and persona.