Yes, I think any sociological overview of big demographics over broad sweeps of time has to omit the specific individual circumstances and family and other relationships that also contribute a lot to how we experience our lives. As a teenager in the 1950s in the UK -- held to be 10 years behind whatever happens in the US -- my memories a…
Yes, I think any sociological overview of big demographics over broad sweeps of time has to omit the specific individual circumstances and family and other relationships that also contribute a lot to how we experience our lives. As a teenager in the 1950s in the UK -- held to be 10 years behind whatever happens in the US -- my memories are of postwar drabness and austerity: with food rationing until I was 12. And wearing my mother's cast-off clothes: with nothing new unless I made it myself from remnants bought in sales. I think most British teenagers had very little money unless they'd left school and had jobs. And with very little in the way of teenage "rebellion" until Radio Luxembourg started to broadcast pop singers influenced by American rock'n roll. I dutifully listened to this a few times late at night, but found it fairly boring. Parental rule -- when they took any interest at all -- could not be escaped except by my moving 400 miles to a university far enough away that mutual visits could not be expected.
It is nice to read such clear and intelligent writing from someone who must be in your late seventies or early eighties. I am 73, and my mother had Alzheimer's, so I am naturally concerned.
Thank you! It continues to surprise me that I'm 81. Re halting, prevention & even reversal of Alzheimer's try checking out Dr Dale Bredesen and the Bredesen Protocol or ReCODE Protocol. He's written three books, of which the latest details experiences of the first eight or so (of now hundreds of) cases of people recovering from Alzheimer's syndrome following his sleep / diet / exercise etc protocol (with 36 factors to attend to).
His Facebook page is also interesting: where he frequently posts articles and research papers from science journals.
(Don't waste time on any drugs for Alzheimer's: ineffective and a huge waste of research funding for a lifestyle disease, by treating results as causes and looking for a single "silver bullet" for a multi-factorial syndrome. Genetics ie presence of one or two ApoE4 genes is not the life sentence it's often deemed to be.)
Yes, I think any sociological overview of big demographics over broad sweeps of time has to omit the specific individual circumstances and family and other relationships that also contribute a lot to how we experience our lives. As a teenager in the 1950s in the UK -- held to be 10 years behind whatever happens in the US -- my memories are of postwar drabness and austerity: with food rationing until I was 12. And wearing my mother's cast-off clothes: with nothing new unless I made it myself from remnants bought in sales. I think most British teenagers had very little money unless they'd left school and had jobs. And with very little in the way of teenage "rebellion" until Radio Luxembourg started to broadcast pop singers influenced by American rock'n roll. I dutifully listened to this a few times late at night, but found it fairly boring. Parental rule -- when they took any interest at all -- could not be escaped except by my moving 400 miles to a university far enough away that mutual visits could not be expected.
It is nice to read such clear and intelligent writing from someone who must be in your late seventies or early eighties. I am 73, and my mother had Alzheimer's, so I am naturally concerned.
Thank you! It continues to surprise me that I'm 81. Re halting, prevention & even reversal of Alzheimer's try checking out Dr Dale Bredesen and the Bredesen Protocol or ReCODE Protocol. He's written three books, of which the latest details experiences of the first eight or so (of now hundreds of) cases of people recovering from Alzheimer's syndrome following his sleep / diet / exercise etc protocol (with 36 factors to attend to).
His first book is at https://a.co/d/4nmAiqU
His Facebook page is also interesting: where he frequently posts articles and research papers from science journals.
(Don't waste time on any drugs for Alzheimer's: ineffective and a huge waste of research funding for a lifestyle disease, by treating results as causes and looking for a single "silver bullet" for a multi-factorial syndrome. Genetics ie presence of one or two ApoE4 genes is not the life sentence it's often deemed to be.)