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To: koan who wrote (69867)	1/12/2009 6:04:14 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Respond to of 71178

Saying that the statement "everyone on earth lived according to whatever dogma their parents and society presented to them at birth" is not true (or even that its nonsense), doesn't imply that "great masses of people were free to do their own thing undeterred by social norms and mores" For your original statement to be true, not a single person would be able to live according to the dogma pushed on them by society or their parents. That's what I called nonsense. Or being a big generous and not sticking to literal meaning of the words you used, at least a very overwhelming majority of people would have to be trapped following the same ideas they grew up with, and then that all would have had to change with the 60s. But that also isn't true. The 60s where a time of change, more so than the average decade in history or even the average decade in modern history. But it doesn't stand out in history to anywhere near the extent that you statements imply. Its not like almost everyone was one thing before the 60s and after that almost everyone was something else. There was change at the margin, not a night and day type change. Many people living before the 60s still came up with their own new ideas and lived according to them. Many people after the 60s follow the traditions and ideas of their parents and society.