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Model 1964 human here.. Life in the past was a lot more free if you were a kid.
After school we'd be out the door with rocket boosters on and not come back inside until it got dark. Parents didn't know where we were, and usually didn't care as long as we did not get into trouble.
Rode bikes everywhere and played at the parks or would go to friends houses that had color TVs and watch afternoon cartoons. The closest we'd got to electronics would be a small AM/FM transistor radio. (If you got one of those, you were super lucky! I had this model.)
If you got 50 cents from the parents you were set for the day. Could get a can of Coke and a candy bar.
For the grownups, politics could be just as harrowing, Vietnam was a super hot topic and as kids, yeah you'd see lots of fucked up vets..
It's easy to look back and say "Ah, the good old days.." esp. if you were a kid - since mom and dad were doing the heavy lifting, but things were slower and the speed of stuff today seems to be down to the fact that people do not understand that they CAN slow down.
When we got internet in 1999, we bailed on the cable TV - having both was too costly. In the 27 years we're not had a TV (attached to cable service - I do game on a 50-inch 4k WalMart special (not-so) smart TV..) it's been a real show, watching friends and family get sucked up and into the maw of the mainstream media. Shit's poison.
You really want to slow down and touch grass, kick as much of the commercial-driven media as you can, to the curb.
Exactly that: growing up in freedom. I remember as a kid of 10 or 12, we roamed the area from after breakfast to about dinner. Without adult supervision at all.
Lunch was not needed, as the area was full of abandoned orchards that provided more than enough food over the summer.