This is why I miss the 1960s. Workers' rights were increasing, pay up, hours down etc. Social injustices were being fixed - civil rights in America, homophobic laws being removed in the UK, deep injustices against Aborigines here in Australian being removed, White Australia gone, the Colour Bar no longer acceptable in the UK, Vatican2, sex finally invented ......
Then it was as if the powers that be said Enough!
Things were never that good again.
True, I was never that young again, but it was more than just the decade of my youth. I can't put my finger on exactly when and how, it is early morning and my mind is fuzzy, but it all seemed to grind to a halt around 1970. I remember feeling a new Zeitgeist and being immensely sad. I was 25.
We never got the magic back.