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All those who didn't live the sixties and their boundless can-do optimism: Envy those of us who did.

For a rather large chunk of American the 60's weren't boundlessly optimistic. Quite the opposite really starting with the Cuban Missile Crisis and ending in Vietnam.

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Whether you chose to be pessimistic or optimistic during that time was up to you and your social circle. For those that were optimistic, there was a lot of technological advances to be optimistic about.

Moon landings became boring during that timeframe!

Whether you chose to be pessimistic or optimistic during that time was up to you and your social circle.

I think it had more to do with body bags and danger than to social circle. It was a bit of privelage to be optimistic.

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