When I was 9 or 10 my mom would send me to the store to get her smokes and they would sell them to me without even blinking an eye.
Growing up in the '70's
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I recall it was Thomas More who wrote the book Utopia as a 'manifest/protest' about the 16th century English society. In fact is was about the fictious island Utopia that was 'a perfect society'. Now I have to use Wikipedia
It seems to me it was a mix of socialist (common interest over personal gain), communist (no private property) and liberal/progressive elements (female priests, euthanesia).
This is part of my summer reading for my course next year. It is eurgh.
I think the perception that more recent generations are bubblewrapped is mainly instigated by the media. I'm a child of the 90s. Obviously things have changed, that's a no-brainer and goes without saying. Yes, in the 70's there was no internet or xboxs or whatever but I think the idea that the present generation are any more or less reckless is swayed by the greater proliferation of material about the coddling of children. Undoubtedly there were parents in the 70s who protected their children from doing potentially dangerous things, it's just that that wasn't always considered news.
I spent most of my childhood doing stupid things like hitting other children with sticks or cricket stumps. I remember when me and a friend took hammers and destroyed a shed built of asbestos. We were about 6. Yes, I watched TV but that's because TV was there and my parents watched it. I'm sure that the children of the 70s would've spent just as much time watching TV if there had been as much TV in those days (I think I currently get 900 different channels) and their parents were already attuned to watching it.
Surroundings change all the time, people change very little.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.