by Paul Craig Roberts, Paul Craig Roberts:

The United States in the 1940s and 1950s was a far better place than it is today. There was a homogeneous population and, thereby, far more social cohesion. Pre-puberty kids, and everyone else, were far freer than they are today. On weekend days, we disappeared all day on our bikes. There were no cell phones with which to communicate with us. We even biked at night to watch Atlanta Crackers baseball games. Our bikes were always there when the game was over, and we biked home without being captured and sold into child prostitution. Our parents had no cause to worry about us.