These 1960s Rich Privileged Teen Baby Boomers DIDN'T Rebel

[@LuminousPath13]

7:00 The term “normie” is over sixty years old. I wonder how much boomer slang zoomers are using without even knowing it. 🤔

[@finley2003]

Loads

[@Wulfyr]

I'm sure. I remember using it in the early 90s and an older head in his 40s (at the time) chuckled and was amused that his generation's slang was still being used. One of my housemates carved "Normies are aliens" on the arm of our garden bench at some point during the same Summer. So yeah,it appeared to already be a generation old when us Gen X kids were using it.

[@Brandon-x8e]

We all used boomer slang. Every generation after did. The media REALLY pushed boomer hippie culture on all of us in everything.

[@aestroai8012]

yup. I'm surprised. But "cool" is over 70! I wonder if gen Y still use it?

[@brwdl]

"Straights" is the term we used, '69-'75.

[@stevepick9527]

75 year old here….was 17 in 1966. I got decent grades, but one of the main reasons I wanted to attend college was to stay out of Vietnam. I got a 2-S deferment for four years. I will never forget the first lottery (after my 4 yr deferment) where I came up number 278 so I didn’t have to go into the service but two of my friends were killed in ‘Nam. I remember much of the craziness from 67 to about 72 with all the free love, hippies and tuning out. I was not one of them.. i’ve lived a good life made a good living had kids, and I still think of my two friends who didn’t have the chance.

[@caustinolino3687]

If you don't mind me asking, why didn't the two friends have the chance to go to college? Today the biggest barrier is money, but all we ever hear about is in the 60s and 70s you could pay for college with a summer job. I'm guessing the reality is somewhere in the middle.

[@midnightspares]

@@caustinolino3687The 2 friends had the option of moving to Canada for the duration of the war…….but there was also a stigma about are you a man & don’t you believe in fighting for your country. If only citizens knew on a large scale back then that government spin doctors manipulate communities through news programmes & pit neighbour against neighbour so to speak to conform & a line with government narratives to further enrich elites & large corporations which have a maze of links that lead back to Washington. Not much has changed.

[@jacobkavinsky1813]

@@caustinolino3687 they died in vietnnam

[@mr.a822]

@@caustinolino3687 they didn’t survived Vietnam because they were caught in a military draft and had no choice under the rules and regulations of the draft, and if they disregarded it, they could had went to prison. Look up Muhammad Ali.

[@nobaloneymahoney7940]

Because they were drafted and all hopes for college webt up in agent orange​@@caustinolino3687

[@JeffyPDiddy]

Every middle class and up baby boomer was privileged. They had THE BEST ECONOMY in US history.

[@llliden7724]

@@JeffyPDiddy not really my first house I bought was at a 13% mortgage rate in the 80s

[@jamesheuer5139]

@@llliden7724…Ahhh, the Reagan years of trickle down economics 😂😂

[@Aaron-SLC]

​@@llliden7724 what was your salary and price of home?

[@llliden7724]

@@Aaron-SLC I was babysitting the neighborhood kids at a dollar an hour or so really not that much. My husband was making $10 an hour. The house cost $45,000.

[@llliden7724]

I still live near that neighborhood that same house would be around 145 thousand right now. The location is the eighth safest town rated in Ohio very lucky in that respect.

[@maggiesmith979]

I'm 73. I live in WV which means I live in the 50's again except with Fentanyl and Facebook. I can't wait to leave. I have no desire to return to the 50's. I was not considered college material in the 60's. This looks like the HS I dropped out of in 1965. I talked my parents into moving. I got a job and went to night school. Yes I did go to college. My parents were shocked but were ok with it. Even today I tend to have friends that are older or younger. I didn't, nor do I now, have anything tin common with these people. I think allot are having cognitive dissonance. Me, I'm doing okay. I guess I didn't have to deal with the same pressures from educated controlling parents others did.

[@youngeye60]

I have to move from California to Kentucky. My uncle lives in West Virginia. Is there any grace to that part of the country? What brings you/has brought you peace?

[@janetcw9808]

Good for you! I wish you well, an older Yorkshire UK woman now living in Scotland 👩🏼‍🦯❤

[@SherryHill-k5y]

​@@youngeye60I can answer and I can't imagine living anywhere else. Was I priviledged?No! My mom made me go to work at age 15 in the summers as my parents were divorced. I had one dress that the rich girls wore but I did have clothes. And I wasn't in a clique ( those kids who did lived on the hill section,) but I had friends. My step-grandfather had left me 2 bonds. I had no idea! Was I popular? Yes. But not wealthy. All that helped me graduate from college. Looking back, the rich and pooular ones didn't make it after college and many dropped out. It was the ones who worked hard but weren't wealthy who made successes out of their lives-- even those who took shop in high school made it big! I'm still friends with many from high school and college.

[@creepdimensions2405]

Feels like How I’m feeling in the same boat more or less, I hate my generation and feel like I was born in the wrong era, most beautiful woman and even regular looking woman would view a majority of guys like last minute or bottom of the barrel choices. Here in the states at least. I can’t help but feel like I’m in hell hating my fellow man while also having to take in any knowledge and take advantage of any chance I can get that’s hopefully in line with my morals. I just want to get away from this fucking country, I rather be a stranger in a strange land like Japan since after all it feels like I’m a walking stranger or even intruder in the lives of my peers and my asinine teachers and professors that seem to be only teaching me so I can teach.

[@olgierd245]

​@@creepdimensions2405what makes you feel all of that? Sounds very strong

[@jlrutube1312]

I was raised in the 60s and 70's. I didn't fit in to any particular group very well. My family was not wealthy enough to fit into the rich people's group but also was Christian and so didn't fit into the group that wanted to drop out and party and rebel. We just went to school and church and had friends and watched TV and rode small motorcycles and went on family vacations and had picnics and such. We just lived life and enjoyed it the best we could. So when I see this film about Webster Groves I don't feel like they were my kind of people but I don't hate them either. I probably was just a typical fairly conservative American kid who loved rock music and girls but also didn't want to be a rebel. I got married and had 5 kids and just lived a lower middle class American life. I'm 66 now and retired. I am still pretty happily married but am a little sad about America because I think it is falling apart.

[@fasilharer1291]

It would be cool to see how life turned out for those people now.

[@marceloz7894]

that would be money well spent by these hack streaming services

[@zyxwut321]

Wow, if there's EVER a case of, "the more things change, the more they stay the same..." Webster Groves is STILL a relatively elite older inner suburb, though it's slightly more diverse now than then. There are so many "Webster Groves" type of communities across the country who basically exist to maintain the status quo as much as possible. Biggest difference is nowadays, most of those types of families don't even bother with public schools.

[@Teeveepicksures]

My fathers side has deep roots there but he moved to CA when he was still a small child. The stories I heard were of opulence until our Aunt Sally started donating all of her Tiffany Lamps to the church then losing the grand old family home in a fire.

[@Mrfallouthero]

This is pathetic, and only serves to differentiate and distinguish one from another. How self-absorbed must a community be to uphold it's "image". I can only imagine what it was like for the first "diverse" families to enter those environments.

[@rebeccachambers419]

@@Mrfalloutheroin this over the edge with diversity craze, it is really very stabilizing living in a community with common values. It’s like marrying someone with common values. We have taken diversity, as with most things, way too far.

[@raymond_sycamore]

My dad used to tell me they called them "the ME generation," and I thought they made fun of us millennials!

[@deltatango5765]

I was born in 1956 and one of the "shop kids". I went to a trade high school and studied to be an electrician, and so glad I did. I actually wanted to be in the electronics class, but it was full. Anyway, they got me my first job, which wasn't in electrical, but electronics, so it worked out in the end. I worked in tech for about 45 of my 50 years, so my time in a trade school was well spent. Even though I didn't have the easy life that these kids had growing up, I managed just fine without college.

[@smexehcougah3]

I remember that the first time I realized that my parents both lived through the 60s without ever becoming hippies I was horrified.

[@marttram2183]

Why horrified?

[@beemayhemful]

Why? The hippie movement was intensely selfish/self centered and pathetically short sighted

[@kati1017]

Sound like they were sensible! Hippies were icky.

[@gregshouse6140]

Yeah your parents sound terrible.. Probably out working hard to support your ungrateful ass.

[@gregshouse6140]

@@smexehcougah3 how dare you judge your parents. Ungrateful pos

[@mr.a822]

Watching this, It’s strange that this hs in Missouri projected perfection while most of Missouri, The South & Middle America pride themselves on a blue collar mentality relying on common sense values with minimal education, which is not a bad thing. The parents in this footage felt uncomfortable when asked about civil rights, wars, and the uncertainty of the future.

[@drewpall2598]

This documentary reminds me of the 1962 song "Little Boxes" By Malvina Reynolds Little Boxes Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes made of ticky tacky Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes all the same There's a pink one and a green one And a blue one and a yellow one And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same And the people in the houses All went to the university Where they were put in boxes And they came out all the same And there's doctors and lawyers And business executives And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same And they all play on the golf course And drink their martinis dry And they all have pretty children And the children go to school And the children go to summer camp And then to the university Where they are put in boxes And they come out all the same And the boys go into business And marry and raise a family In boxes made of ticky tacky And they all look just the same There's a pink one and a green one And a blue one and a yellow one And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same

[@janineyoungstrom8221]

Yes. Norman Lear

[@AdamsOlympia]

Weeds!

[@kimfelopulos8139]

I think if these lyrics all the time. Decades later.

[@Cotif11]

I feel like I'm watching a cult.

[@mariecait]

I’m a millennial and my parents are boomers. Growing up in the 90s my dad experienced wealth but that lead to him becoming increasingly irritable. My mom left him for his drinking. Just this past year they reunited. Boomers were so focused on image, money and success they forgot the importance of family and love. The happiest homes I’ve been in are not the families with a lot of money. That’s not to say hard work and money aren’t important because they are but coming home to an empty mansion has to be the most miserable feeling in the world. Love grows inside homes where people live and people are able to put differences aside and work together to make a better life. I live alone and never had children because my childhood and young adulthood were spent in deep depression. I never dreamt of a future due to my heartbreak from not having a home to come to. My parents reunited and live together again which has helped heal the hole in my heart. I don’t hold them accountable for the times they grew up and the messages they received effecting them negatively. With age comes wisdom and grace. God bless ❤

[@AlhaqqTvchannel]

I hope you get married and start a family. There’s nothing more fulfilling than being a responsible caring parent. You’ve learned from your parents mistakes and now know what not to do when you have a family of your own.

[@llliden7724]

My heart goes out to you. Late boomer here, widowed young,raised two children on my own. Always tried make my house a home for my kids. Had a good job that was very demanding. My Dad fought 2 wars. WWII & Korean . I was raised traditional middle class but my Dad drank too. Sometimes life was heart wrenching. His anger came out then.

[@barcodenosebleed5485]

So very true and familiar. Thankfully no alcohol, but my boomer parents were roommates at best. Not a whole lot to work with when trying to model my own relationships lol. And then I was quite sick as a boy and figured I wouldn't make it to my 30s so thinking about the future seemed pointless. Doing great now and have my doggos. It's been good to learn how to be alone. But I would like to change that eventually. What you said about homes, I think, applies to communities and nations too. We're constantly told myths about how awful people we don't understand or are different are. Often all it takes is a few connections to break those down, a little bit of grace and reflection to find many of our own values reflected back but we're all so busy in our own bubbles.

[@Sukharno2121]

They also pushed really hard that they needed to move away from their families and hometowns to make money in the big cities. There was a strong egocentrism and "independence" culture, without the connections to the people around you money and appearances were the tools most used to fit in. My father was born 1951, from a large family in a very poor countryside town with maybe a few hundred people. He moved to the big city and started with heavy labour jobs, then scamming people with shitty insurance policies, finally landing a job in a oil company and growing to a technical position over several years. He spend weeks away working either in platforms or tankers measuring the oil levels and quality of the oil the company moved around. He was absent but for part of my life he was not a bad father, things got bad mostly after he retired. Alcohol, smoking, gambling, women, even drugs for a time. He was not able to live with us at home, he hated our family and we grew to hate him as well. He died about four years ago with two kinds of cancer at the same time alone in a hospital. My mom, sister and myself haven't been to his grave since the burial.

[@chrisd653]

I grew up with an acholic father, borderline schizo/depressed mother in a chaotic home. Parents were always fighting, every week and day of my life until I finally moved out. It's crazy what kids put up with because it's all they know. This world is rough, but it was rough 100 years ago, 1000 years ago. The big difference nowadays is like you said, the lack of love and healthy family bonds. The boomers are a very damaged generation. Lots of wealth, great childhoods but in their adulthoods they never grew up and many lived reckless lives. I've tried to avoid all the mistakes of my parents and am doing my best to make a great home. I'm not rich by any means. Kids are just so special tho, a dear loved one is special. Having a little family is challenging at times but worth every bit of sweat and tears. But I totally understand why many are not having kids these days. Everything is such a mess. 😢

[@SharonPadget]

I’m 73. This isn’t how I grew up. Most of the kids I grew up with had working class parents. I lived in the north where there were good paying union jobs. If you didn’t go to college there were still decent paying jobs

[@nielszindel1151]

2024, little boxes on. the hillside, little boxes made of ticky tacky and they grow to go to university where they all protest and cancel anyone who is different and does not think like them. Delia Morris

[@ferney2936]

it reminded me of the song too

[@RoverT65536]

For me, the sound drops out around 10:00 for about 30 seconds.

[@jdee3421]

Probably a copyright issue.

[@RoverT65536]

@@jdee3421 , yes, that makes sense.

[@beverleypeacock]

@@RoverT65536 I'd like to know what he says though..

[@andyk192]

Happened to me too. Probably some kind of gltch when it got uploaded.

[@JB-eg1tb]

"I don't think any 16 year old child should be burdened by the problems of the world" I was also impressed by how well spoken the 16 year olds were in this video.

[@jcbulldog533]

They all were well spoken & very mature for their age.. Today's teens I find are not even remotely close to answering questions with that much thought

[@hankskorpio5857]

Thats how people are when states view education as a priority and not a slush fund used to divert funds to the police for toys and politicians for embezzlement and cronyism..

[@ikeu6433]

@@jcbulldog533neither did bush Trump or Biden it’s not the kids

[@In_time]

My thoughts exactly every time I see one of these films, is how well dress and articulate everyone was. Looking after their appearance and speaking thoughtfully wasn’t even a “have to” or “try to”, it was just _normal._ It’s devastating to me even as a millennial to know we will never be at this place again. And with the reliance on the internet, apps and ai, it will only get worse.

[@Sukharno2121]

education standards were way higher

[@glennalmayer6563]

This is from 66, and just shy of the Summer of Love. I think the draft and Vietnam had a big effect by 68. I love seeing the creative ways in which the younger people live now. I doubt anyone is being shamed for simply buttoning a top button or wearing the wrong loafers now. Many boomers have worked hard to gain economic and social change and it is sad that has been swept under the rug as far as later generations awareness. I doubt that the corporate hold on information helps them learn about that sometimes. Lol on the car...so true. And most of the boys knew how to repair them. I wouldn't want to go back though.

[@enginerdy]

It doesn’t matter to the kids because when they look out ahead of them, they don’t see a future for themselves. The prospect of having a well paying job just because you go to college and work hard isn’t a guarantee. Try starting your career in a 10 year economic crater. The kids starting now see even less opportunity and they’re not wrong.

[@glennalmayer6563]

@@enginerdy so just give up working on legislation and funding and trying to make it better?

[@enginerdy]

@@glennalmayer6563 that’s what the democrats have done, yes. Republicans never cared about that anyway. As long as the donors are happy.

[@glennalmayer6563]

@@enginerdy true

[@AXander1978]

THREE HOURS STUDYING??? That's why genX was starting to mentally check out of school in the 80s and 90s

[@enginerdy]

He’s talking about in college. But of course that’s bogus, you mix hard ones and easy ones and spend 3 to 1 only on the hard ones.

[@handlesshouldntdefaulttonames]

I put a top level comment on there before seeing yours but i think you're absolutely right. " I live a little south of Webster, even into the late 90's the educational system acted like this was the norm (talking about the professor at 5:30) I cried every single day in elementary school because I got up at 4 to catch a bus at 5:45 and then rode the bus for 3 hours to school (was usually late to 1st class because busses were late) and then was expected to do the same in reverse in the evening PLUS 6 hours of homework a night. I stopped doing homework. Totally shut down in 5th grade." I'm an "elder" millennial, turning 36 this year and it has affected me my whole life. I don't think I've ever stopped being burnt out.

[@THATGUY-ir4ie]

@@handlesshouldntdefaulttonames Elder Millennial..lol. You were around when it was called Gen Y.😅😅😅

[@handlesshouldntdefaulttonames]

@@THATGUY-ir4ie No one would have known what I was talking about if I had said Gen Y because we aren't called that. Generations typically get a letter identifier until they've developed their sense of identity. That's why Gen X is still Gen X. They didn't do anything.

[@THATGUY-ir4ie]

@@handlesshouldntdefaulttonames What did “Millennials” do that got them a certain identity?

[@janetcw9808]

Thanks So Much for your lifetime of work 🙏🏼💗🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🐈‍⬛🧙🏼‍♀️🥃🥃

[@m.c.5459]

Why would they rebel. They had everything. Gen X was the first generation to do worse than their predecessors. They had a reason to rebel.

[@stephennootens916]

First they did not have everything, other than their cars everything they had was their parents. Second they were under massive pressure to conform. Individualism was squash down and on top of that if you were male without the right connections or able to go to collage your ass might wind up in Nam.

[@costernocht]

I believe Life magazine did a photoessay sometime in the late Forties about Webster Groves teenagers.

[@RAEckart22]

Lol, they didn't like the documentary because they couldn't control it & show Webster Groves to be a little Peyton Place town

[@jmflyer55]

Well, anyone who says kids are the same now, and these kids were only hiding the truth, I think is pretty clueless. While 95% didn't believe in premarital or promiscuous sex at 16, todays 12 and 13 yr olds are already addicted to pornography and know more about sexual promiscuity than their parents do. As for their appearance and mannerisms, and their ability to articulate their thoughts, again, what I see in many of today's kids is borderline illiteracy, and a lack of any future goals. I make this comment fully understanding I'm speaking in "general" terms, and today, certainly not all kids fall under the categories I've mentioned, and their ate kids today that excel. I'd just say that the percentage is FAR below what it was in those days. I was also in school at that time and remember! These kids are a fee years older than I am, but nevertheless I still remember.

[@DavidCornwall-m3u]

I'm a teacher and I think many young people today are this articulate. There may even be a selection effect in who gets to be interviewed. Young people today aren't directionless, they're just growing up in a world that is changing so fast it is hard to set fixed, realistic goals.

[@janineyoungstrom8221]

This was a SEGMENT of the population. Not everyone was rich. I was part of the middle class population as were my friends. Yes, it was a great place to grow up in many way ( class of '66). I also knew of those who DID rebel, early hippies. I mixed with them all.

[@izzydeadyet7336]

Rebellion back then must have been a real shock to parents coming from the old days! Most of these kids would be children of WW2 vets!

[@aeromodeller1]

@@izzydeadyet7336 Most of the "rebels" had parents who questioned things.

[@glosteiger2517]

A weirdo and rebel here. Still happy with that decision. I could never conform.

[@h0rriphic]

Brave weirdos and rebels like you made it far less dangerous and difficult for us weirdos and rebels who came after you. For that I am eternally grateful.

[@patrickstromann3836]

Wow. When the white 1960s cop is the voice of reason...

[@marjorjorietillman856]

I was amazed too! I was in elementary and that’s the year we had to integrate. Somehow I was able to survive and made the honor roll. I had one Whtye teacher that treated me like a human, which helped with the transition!❤

[@IMBrute-ir7gz]

Why did the sound drop out when those tuxedoed middle-aged people were dancing? Looks like that school had a pretty strict dress code. Same with mine here in Florida in those days. I certainly don't miss all the hairspray, curlers, and rollers it took to make a girl's hair do those impossible things!

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

The sound of dropped out because KZbin didn't allow it as I no longer have the copyright license. David Hoffman filmmaker

[@billdescoteaux]

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker It sounded like they were playing "Keep On Dancing" by The Gentrys.

[@janineyoungstrom8221]

There was not a school dress code that I recall. Certainly not like now. We knew what was appropriate.

[@faithunseen123]

The guy saying he must be looked at as a guest Villan on Batman,,made me smile😂keep these clips coming David,they are great!

[@terryowen6759]

If these families are truly the wealthy....isn't this still the way it is now for the rich? They live in a different world

[@Yourmission9]

Look at all that diversity! These “kids” saying they wanted to be financially successful grew up in the BEST time to do it in. Cost of living was insanely low, and you could work making minimum wage and afford a decent home. Compare that to today’s standards. We’re in the late stages of capitalism in my humble opinion, the sheer level of greed, the corporate income tax being as low as it is, and now the “conservative” politics are turning this country into something unrecognizable

[@Nun195]

A lot of the issues in the USA would simply go away if the tax rates were set back to those in the 1950s.

[@Torgomasta]

“We are in the late stages of capitalism in my humble opinion” lmao your humble opinion is a memorized line repeated by every non thinking young person 🎉🎉🎉

[@zumaanandrade3961]

​​@@Nun195Not to mention that there are fees, fines, license and permits for every dang thing. Robbing us blind.

[@acustomer7216]

Ah but the "Socies" only inherit the earth within the city limits of Webster Grove!!!😂😂😂 I grew up in a small town like this as a late baby boomer & I couldn't wait to escape.

[@jayalexander3356]

Yeah, "rebelling" was great fun until the hippies realized being dirty, smelly, drug addicted and penniless wasn't as much fun as they thought. So they became the "yuppies" of the 80s.

[@tomfields3682]

@@jayalexander3356 No, totally different groups.

[@BAD_CONSUMER]

Did not realize the term normie was this old. I'm glad its being recycled and getting new use.

[@jdee3421]

2:34 - An acronym or something she wants to do?

[@skyrocketcoast219]

Well in 1966, in San Francisco, I was 15 year old girl & decided to live a gypsy type life for my survival- I had 1 parent - a alcohol mother..so i became a hippe not by choice , i suppose.: .never took drugs Kept my nose clean, because if I got nabbed , they would throw me in a juvenile detention center, foster home or Group home....bounced around to Aunts & Uncles good family friends homes age 14 to 19... By 15 I was cleaning houses, and doing gardening work for neighbors & babysitting 24/7. I went on to get A A. Degree & a B. A. from San Francisco state university. I was lucky...all my friends took all kinds of drugs..it never tempted or appealed to me. Yeah so I was a hippee chick & kept on keeping on!

[@chris.swearenginchannel]

I’m still young. I’m just a baby to you guys, but realistically, I love learning from this channel, I can’t really relate at that time, but I can take my mind back in time to see how it was and that amazes me. thanks David Hoffman for the video. You have a wonderful evening.

[@d.b.2812]

It would be Nice to see how things turned out for them!

[@janineyoungstrom8221]

When we gather for reunions there are no divisions among us. Time has been a leveler.

[@slokestope3769]

This is a really interesting look at the 50s american community and mindset, I love their reaction to theirselves. Appreciate your work David

[@jcbulldog533]

This was 1966

[@fifthgear93]

Oh wow, what I coincidence, I just finished watching your video on Webster Grove from 3 years ago, clicked on your channel for similar content and I see a similar video uploaded right this minute. Definitely watching this one as well.

[@fifthgear93]

Oh wait, this is a reaupload of the same video. 🤔

[@dabzprincess92]

Me too so the comments and 👍 are beating the algorithm

[@katanaki3059]

Blows my young boomer (b.1959) mind why the generations are supposed to resent each other so much

[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

Because this generation of Boomers who conformed, created a mess with our country. They keep upholding the status quo, care mainly about money and status, and vote for fascists

[@jimbarrofficial]

Would love to get a glimpse of these youths 10 years later during the yellow and orange polyester 70's. How many of them went to Vietnam? How many became hippies or "longhairs?"

[@jimbarrofficial]

The cop could have been talking about the "snowplow parents" we have today. So much is taken care of for the kids that many don't know how to be self-reliant. Amazing how things don't change.

[@jeffreywillstewart]

I'm not sure I get this. The Baby Boomers had the option to not rebel because everything was working for them. I guess this is about boomer elites. Targetted to those for nostalgia?We Gen X, suddenly were abandoned by newly divorced or working parents. The rug pullEd from beneath them as they had watched their boomer siblings get every option. And guidance.

[@CindyCindy-ob9kl]

I would have parroted the same thing when I was 16 because that was what I was taught to want. I didn’t realize that I was abused, physically and mentally. It took years to learn to think for myself. This “study” is crap

[@3DEditor]

Rich white Mormons always raised their families with very high expectations and very strict rules.

[@reidellis1988]

I was born in 1970. I grew up in Provo, Utah and grew weed in my Mormon parents backyard.

[@3DEditor]

@@reidellis1988 you were known as a Jack Mormon or Apostate. Once your bishop found out, you were either disfellowshipped with restrictions of taking the sacrament and holding any calling until you cleaned up your act, or you would be excommunicated from the Mormon cult.

[@reidellis1988]

@3DEditor My dad was a bishop, and you don't get excommunicated for a drug problem. Adultery is the main reason for excommunication. I am a convicted felon and don't participate, but I haven't been excommunicated.

[@3DEditor]

@reidellis1988 disfellowshipped then, with the risk of excommunication. I'm very familiar of how they run things.

[@StrawberryBored]

I love watching these types of documentaries. I’m a millennial and my parents are boomers. These kids have a certain sense of certainty about life that the kids I grew up with and myself didn’t have. We were all too aware that nothing is guaranteed

[@thomasphillips8539]

They look like a fine group of good, all American kids to me. How did YOU maintain your grades? Did YOU ever cheat? Why are you trying to paint a bad picture of this community? You seem jealous.

[@Tahoza]

When "all American" is a privileged minority it might be time to reconsider whether or not it's "good".

[@janineyoungstrom8221]

@@Tahoza the school and community was not all privileged.

[@Tahoza]

@@janineyoungstrom8221 I'm pretty sure the video explicitly describes it as a privileged school and community.

[@janineyoungstrom8221]

@@Tahoza that is correct-it did. I lived in Webster Groves and graduated from that high school in 1966. You can't believe everything the press says.

[@janineyoungstrom8221]

@@Tahoza yes it did. However I grew up in Webster Grovesand graduated from that school in 1966. Can't believe everything the press says.

[@Primitarian]

People back then seemed so much more serious, better dressed and well spoken than they generally do today. And this was the 1960s!

[@j.kaimori3848]

This is the upper upper class

[@Primitarian]

@@j.kaimori3848 Interesting. I was too young to remember the 1960s, but I have seen group photos of classes of a local high school, year by year, and up to about 1972 the students were all attired in suits, ties and dresses. Thereafter it was a hodge podge of polo shirts, jeans, gym clothes and T-shirts.

[@j.kaimori3848]

@@Primitarian probably, it is true that there was much more homogeneity in general in the 50s and 60s. But it's worth remembering that this was repressive enough to people that those following found it overly restrictive. Largely the uniformity was due to the propaganda post WWII which was trying to rebuild America.

[@Primitarian]

​@@j.kaimori3848 Perhaps then the greater orderliness, decorum and articulacy of the 50s and 60s came at too great a price. But I am not so sure. Was there more homogeneity and repression back then? It seems to me, yes and no. Yes, in that this was the era defined by a white, Christian, heterosexual middle class, with an underside of bigotry and racism. No, in that today we have a culture of inclusion that somehow ends up excluding people anyway, as by shrinking of the middle class, "cancellation" through cyberspace lynch mobs, or massive and intrusive government programs that often have massive side effects. Are homogeneity and repression bad? Again, yes and no. Yes, in that it tends to be bad to be on the receiving end of repression and intolerance. No, in that living in a community with much in common, including uniform rules, can go a long way toward harmony, efficiency and stability. Today we have greater respect for diversity and individualism, it would seem, and that can be good. But today we also seem to have more divisiveness, factionalism, instability, cynicism, pessimism, alienation, and loneliness, as well as what seems to be an increasing trend toward idiocracy, rootlessness, and loss of civility. So is society better today than it was in the 50s and 60s? It seems to me In some ways, yes, but in other ways, no.

[@j.kaimori3848]

@@Primitarian sure, it's complicated, but high conformity societies tend to have higher self deletion rates, while community can exist in either. I see community as something seperate to the level of conformity expected by society.

[@h.w.barlow6693]

Wow look how well-spoken and thin everyone is.

[@kellygilbert-rios6319]

Brilliant. Thank you😎

[@jameysummers1577]

Its funny how the lingo changes... "necking" I asked my 12 year old if she knew what that was. She didn't know. "retarted" My 12 year old said that noboy uses this bad word anymore. "two timing" She thought this was a dance that old people did in the old days. "The Soviet Union" She said that this is something that old people say. I graduated in '94 by the way.

[@Fawnarchives]

Well you’re asking your 12 year old about relatively mature topics. I’m 17 and I know what those terms mean because they are more relevant to my conversations. I’m not sure if this is a generational gap or if shes just 12 years old

[@jameysummers1577]

@@Fawnarchives nobody says two timing anymore. It’s always called cheating. People stopped using necking probably in the 60s or 70s. Today it is not acceptable to call somebody with down syndrome, retarded. When I was growing up, and a kid was acting out in a horrible way all of the time, you called them disturbed. Those are all terms that I knew about years ago when I was 12.

[@Jason-xb3jh]

Wow…. That’s a fascinating perspective. It explains a lot about my parents. They came from the group that did not “rebel” also.

[@sheilagraber5577]

I was born in 1956. I can’t relate to any of this. Everyone I knew in High School had to work for our spending money. Our parents didn’t give us handouts. They couldn’t afford to

[@llliden7724]

@@sheilagraber5577 Same here. I started working at the age of 15.

[@JWF99]

"You label me, I label you!" 🎶 It's cyclical, seems to never end! ☮✌

[@lja6214]

Outstanding!!👏 Your documentary mirrored so much of the small town Midwestern views/ way of life in the 50's & 60's. I feel fortunate to have grown up (in a smaller city) in the 70's. There was still pressures but not comforming as it had been. 😀

[@countykerry6953]

Uptight comes to mind ...

[@jarrowmarrow]

My mother was born in 47. She often says about her generation "We were so sure of ourselves." And thats all she's willing to say about the subject. I do get that personal responsibility finger wag.Its a little hard to take.

[@leishui-b6h]

Like this channel. It is a window for me to know or confirm whether it is right compared to what I had in mind about America when I was a kid in 2000s (in PRC). Like watching a movie but in fact they are all real people. Grateful to your work here sir.

[@nanettefoster1625]

They would have preferred a Hollywood version to compliment their egos.

[@2bleavin]

I googled this docu it was huge at the time & many of the these kids, married each other & stayed in area. They still come together for reunions etc

[@masonrothe9289]

When I see this, I feel like im seeing more misinformation than we have today. Not in a sense that what they think is wrong but that fact of that they dont know why they do the things they do. They believe everything their teachers and parents tell them without asking why. They want to be succesfull and succeed but show no empathy or moral code when it comes to reaching their goals. The morality and empathy only come out once caught doing something wrong. I feel this type of conformity definitely has some unforseen consequences that we see in our own world today. Then again, the time period was different we didnt have a personal computer in every room. The flow information was slower. Things were more separated. The poor only saw the things around them and the rich the same. I guess what im trying to say is that we are all a product of our enviroment and this just shows how easy it is for the people at the top to tell us what to do and for us to follow blindy. I think we should remember this in ourselves as we look at the world today we all want the same things and it will be and always be power and greed that hinder our own ability to help our neighbors save our enviroment and continue progress. If we weren't so concerned with the success of ourselves and instead the success of our country, we would all be better off.

[@maxkopfraum]

5:08 16h of class per week? we had up to 40h of classes in the 90s

[@JakoWako]

Not 16 hours of class. He’s saying for every hour of class you need to study an additional three hours outside of class. Professors told me that too a decade ago. Some classes that was needed, but the key was to mix in some easy classes that you didn’t need to study as much for.

[@maxkopfraum]

@@JakoWako Look at his blackboard math, he's working on the assumption of 16h of class per week, leading to 48h (16x3) of self study. Now I think he's talking about university there, not high school. But still: such a sparse schedule became very rare in the later decades.

[@TheOldnic]

It's an interesting thought they are perceived as conforming and the 60s a downfall. Around 1950 the USA did decide it had a homicide problem, it was around something like 40 per 100,000 in the 1950s and steadily has decreased with spasmodic spikes in numbers (smaller and smaller spikes) to recent years where all USA has had as little as average 6 per 100,000 homicides nationally despite the mass killings. * Note , statistics annoyance is often the "total population" is used as denominator , rather than actual number of adults or (and or) relevant age totals along with not enough label of the graph result "title" defined properly if the sectioning is drawn properly from parameters input. E.g. Australia has a population total of 25 million and a homicide rate 2 per 100,000 a year but only 8 million relevant people , so therefore a homicide rate of 6 per 100,000 relating perpetrators valid (and usually many more joint responsibilty homicides where more than one murderer is part of the actions and activity). Perpetrator based statistics , it's more like 12 to 24 per 100,000 relevant! Australia and Britain's Commonwealth colonies also has a phenomenally high portion of murderers that are females, and too, as violent as the males!

[@loubydal7812]

These people in 1966 were creepy and unreal. Teens like these were too much all about keeping up to look better than others (all vanity), exams fraudsters, materialism to show off, classist discriminatory elitism, club life for belonging sense... Funny these things hasn't changed too much to today. Great job, thanks David.

[@colleensclassroom8915]

Thanks for a very enlightening film! I especially got a kick out of the woman @17 mins. Thankfully, we've come a long way baby!

[@RaveDave871]

7.40 young "take my va×" Bill Gates 🤓

[@caustinolino3687]

5:45 74 hours per week of class and schoolwork? Sure, buddy...sounds realistic that they worked almost 80 hour weeks for 4 years straight. I might believe that if this documentary was 1960 USSR.

[@jarodcarnarvon5198]

Oh wow. My Dad was 16 in 1966. My Mom 13. Definitely their era LOL

[@TonyisToking]

This is my Grandfathers theory of why society isn't doomed to fail and that there is a way to prevent it. You allow small cycles to occur within society so that natural tendency has an outlet, rather than let it spread through repression. The Romans could have used this philosophy... wouldn't you think? I'd argue although moments like this didn't become the norm, it's actually perfectly natural and going according to plan. And ironically, it's for the same reason... Being Rich and Priveleged. People who are Rich and Priveleged who do rebel usually do so because they have the safety net of their family. They will go off and feel free because they know there is something there to catch them if it goes wrong. And often it is the case that every single one of them ends up working in line with their family tradition.

[@TonyisToking]

Incredible video, by the way. As always. Thank you for sharing, David.

[@Ryan713]

I grew up next to a town like this. My town was straight up middle class, and we always felt our neighbors were looking down on us, although no one I knew experienced this in a real-life example. My household emphasized hard work. I recently "worked with" a young woman who grew up in that town. Her desire for success and need for expensive items was almost nauseating. Me, I like to have fun, and I pursue artistic endeavors on the side.

[@dabzprincess92]

2:37 happy but has the K.I.L.L. on her shirt 😂

[@pacoy5319]

I am 71, went through only military schools, as a dependent. I'm grateful...❤

[@stitchingsecurityguard]

If only the POC communities would live this calmly.....

[@Tahoza]

The absolute worst possible take from this video...

[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

@@Tahozathe truth though, people of color couldn’t even eat in the same restaurants

[@Nun195]

It’s almost like 400 years of chattel slavery is bad.

[@exgamerr]

Thank you so much for your videos and work David Hoffman. I always enjoy watching your videos whenever they pop up in my feed. Keep up the good work!

[@aestroai8012]

God Bless David Hoffman! I'm in my mid 40's. I went to a private school, but I always wondered where all these formalities came from. It's so icky. I play rock, and punk, and I understand why everybody was so hung up back then.

[@ruth_gordon]

This was FASCINATING. Thank you for sharing this, David 🤯

[@mikoaj3283]

Hello David, big fan here! In the beginning you mentioned 'clips from the doc' - do you usually post just clips from your films or do you upload the whole thing? If the first one is true, are you open to posting the full versions more often? You're a real one, best wishes

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

From time to time I do post the complete film but really as they are not watched like the clips are --the clips get a much larger audience. David Hoffman filmmaker

[@jmflyer55]

Hi David... Thank you! for your work as a filmmaker, and thank you for sharing it with us on KZbin now days! Otherwise chances are most of us would have probably never seen your work. I've already left a rather lengthy comment, which focused on the differences in youth of this film (1966) in stark contrast with today's youth. But on a completely different thought, but a thought the film shows clearly, is it exposes the wildly accepted myth people talk about and also believe today, that any and every young person of the 1960's, was a draft dodging, long haired, unkempt, counterculture advocate, smoking marijuana, dropping LSD and carrying around a sign of protest that reads "Turn On...Tune In...Drop Out"... SO many people today, especially millennial aged young adults, believe that every one of us who lived through that period of time are former "hippies". And obviously that's just not true. That's something Hollywood for one, has impressed upon the minds of people via popular films etc.. Along these same lines, I'll offer up another false belief people have today about that era, which has also been accomplished primarily via Hollywood films and is believed practically as 'gospel' today. The false idea that every Vietnam veteran, experienced massive, non stop drug use through their time fighting in Vietnam in the service. It seems almost everything we see today that comes out of Hollywood regarding Vietnam, shows a bunch of enlisted Army grunts sitting around smoking a joint, 'high as a kite' and then going ballistic with their M14's & M16's in close range jungle fighting. This simply is NOT true. All the stuff we see depicted in that way, is an absolute fairy tale. Were there some "stoners" there, who did these things? Yes, of course. But FEW. They were definitely the rare exception, NOT the norm. And unlike the movies, it certainly wasn't the 'war hero' types as depicted in films doing it. Hollywood has done all they can, to glamorize the drug smoking/drug taking "cool" looking Vietnam soldier image. Sorry folks, that wasn't the case in real life. First off, if caught with drugs, even in Vietnam, you'd be court-martialed. The military doesn't allow drugs now, and they didn't allow them then. Many of my buddies who went to Vietnam, some on multiple tours, when asked told me they never ever saw not even a single occasion, where a fellow soldier was smoking grass, or taking anything else. And THAT is the reality of the situation. I realize this comment is off topic regarding the film, but this false belief so many people have today of drug use in Vietnam, closely parallels the false belief this films exposes, being that children of the 60's were all long haired hippies, who attended Woodstock screaming Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out at every chance they had! It's simply NOT true, and is a product of Hollywood false "pop culture". Thanks again David for presenting us with your wealth of films and clips! They're truly enjoyable to watch! PS*... Just FYI in case you're unaware. There's a problem with the audio cutting out about half way through your film. It then comes back on as a close shot of you narrating comes back on screen.

[@russshaber8071]

When we returned from living in Europe to Southern Virginia in 1966 it was a culture shock. I'll never get over how racist, violent and intolerant the United States is, compared to European countries and compared to the military community.

[@rudociliak6683]

No culture

[@beemayhemful]

Ah yes, you mean the Europe of Black Piet? Calling footballers monkeys? Beating refugees? The one where the Holocaust took place? That non racist Europe?

[@jennybugsification13]

I'm 47, and you're documentaries have peppered my tv viewing for years. Thank you for yet another amazing peek at the life that was, in a time where those same people are now in power. ❤

[@marlissemurguido375]

The amount of anxiety these kids had!

[@Zoliqa]

Im from eastern europe and so interesting to see the older USA. In the socialism the norm were similar. Be healthy, do sport, get married and have children. The only difference is the education. In the socialism the lower jobs were the norm because these people were the leg of the system. For exchange you had a steady job and if you never talked about the system you got a house with a soviet made (bad) car.

[@tj921able]

I love this look at the past. Thank you for sharing it. God Bless You and stay safe.

[@HazeOfWhearyWater]

_"Didn't participate in the 1960s."_ You had to drop out and take acid in order to have "participated"? How do you participate in a calendar date?

[@SuperStella1111]

Most boomers didn’t. Most weren’t old enough for the sixties revolutions. Most voted for Thatcher and Reagan.

[@djinnmagik4817]

Great documentary David! Thanks for sharing 😁

[@ThomRealEstate-k1y]

I was a teenager in 1970 Philadelphia and it was nothing like this film. I never took the college conveyor belt. My childhood was like the greasers in the Outsiders movie exept it was Kensington not Tulsa. Our activities were writing on walls like Cornbread and the Jersey Shore.

[@bushikciwa]

Very interesting and funny

[@globe2555]

I liked the way they talked at that time.

[@TonyThaDon]

I've been living in St. Louis (Soulard) for the past 7 years now. My wife was born in St. Louis. I know tons of people from Webster Groves. Seeing this is crazy

[@XxCrawdadCraigxX]

good video

[@joegiuffrida6779]

I grew up in a progressively suburbanizing town in Suffolk County NY with a continual flow of city folk buying small homes in the area. I became a teen ager in the mid 60s and became interested and involved with the sub cultural influences that were being promoted on radio stations like WNEW out of NYC. These FM radio stations were like transmitters for all of the locations in the area where “underground” bands were surfacing whose music was greatly influenced by the Timothy Leary LSD doctrine as well as bands like the Greatful Dead, who were huge proponents of the drug culture in general. I was infected with this new “culture” through my older siblings. In retrospect, I have come to believe that if the majority of parents in any given community understood the value of education and were playing a major role in their chlidren’s lives, and was widespread within that community, I believe most young people wouldn’t pay much mind to the alternative cultural influences in those places. All it took for my older siblings to go wrong was to meet and develop friendships with other kids who were already being indoctrinated and experimenting with drugs. It was like a virus at the time that was spread from one person to another through acquaintance. It is my understanding that many baby boomer parents didn’t have a clue on how to intentionally raise their kids, thinking that they would just grow up and become what they were supposed to become in the way that they themselves did. How wrong they were.

[@arthurdalton517]

Mr Hoffman I can Guaranteed? That I from the San Francisco Bay area this is How sume kids might have been but most of kids in the late 60s I think 16 and older were thinking about the V N war and how to avoid it and not this Hoyty toyty music. Maybe in some places in the Country but not for the most part in California I just don't think that type of Conformity. Would have been in California and definitely not in the Bay and LA You let me know

[@clairecarscallen]

As soon as that boy started talking about everyone leaving their 2 level home, with its 2 cars, 2 kid family at the same time every day, and returning home from work at the same time as every other man, I immediately thought of those scenes in Olivia Wilde’s chilling 2022 film, Don’t Worry Darling. I wonder if she saw this documentary.

[@maureendrozda9960]

Looking Back - IAm NOT Proud Of Baby Boomers

[@Ethergirl]

This is fascinating to me, and reminds me of my thought that this whole strict labeling and stratification of "generations" is sort of dumb and possibly was created as a societal concept to make it easier to sell things to people based on their yearning to be part of an identifiable "identity group". The fact is that even within a group of people who were all born within even 2 or 3 years of each other ( let alone these 15 to 20 year "cohorts" or time spans the supposed generations are labeled as) their perspectives and goals may vary wildly based on socioeconomic issues, their families' cultures and religions or lack thereof, and a range of other specific factors connected with their own specific family situations. So yeah a lot of Baby Boomers the same age as these kids had a ton of privilege and were somewhat vacuous like this kids appear, but many did not. Timewise they DID have at least some advantage over later generations because of the economy but that did not trickle down to all of them to the same degree.

[@Rene-uz3eb]

I've seen this before. I mean in retrospect, they had a good life so why would they rebel. Call it conformity, but to everyone going through it, it's new.

[@newwavepop]

This is something i actually always wonder about, because we never really see or hear much about the normal kids of that generation that did not rebel in any way. also i grew up poor white trash in Oklahoma in the 70s and 80s and really identified with the characters in the Outsiders book, so that term Soc has a rather negative association for me.