Things People Believed 50 Years Ago
Even if it sometimes feels like we’re going backward, civilization really does move forward at a surprisingly fast pace. Grunge takes a look at some of the misguided things people used to believe less than half a century ago. Yup, feeding babies coffee was a thing. As we sit around and complain about our lack of space vacations, miracle cures for obesity, and our crushing existential boredom, we usually fail to realize just how far we’ve actually come in just the past fifty years. Before the summer of love, people had some pretty unusual ideas about the world, and what the future might hold. Here are a few common ideas from fifty years ago that, thankfully, went the way of the Banana Splits…
You start dying when you stop dreaming.