[cm2012]

Rose colored glasses. The 60s had the most terrifying increase in crime in living memory (one of many graphs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#/...). Until MLKs death he and other civil rights movement leaders were incredibly unpopular (check polling of time). By most measures, now is less of a time when the best days are behind us.

[ricardobeat]

Did you link to the right graph? That one shows most of the 60s still safer than the 00s.

[cm2012]

It's the rate of change from good to bad that's scary. Crime doubled in 10 years!

[Latteland]

That may be true, but I missed out on wild sex, drugs, rock and roll. And woodstock. :-)