Wake Up Every Day and Go to Work, You’ve Gotta Be Kidding Me?
Teenagers have forever threatened to abandon the conventions of marriage, higher education, and back-breaking hard work…but now, I think they really mean it
How come everybody looked so happy in those early television sitcoms?
When I watch a rerun of the 1972 Bob Newhart Show, I’m transformed back to a profoundly simple America. A country where the average household had a black-and-white television, an 8-track cassette player, and a landline telephone.
Life seemed so quaint and sweet in that fictional sitcom based in Chicago. Bob and his wife Emily got up every day, rode the train to work, and came home at around 5:30 to their modest high-rise apartment where they had some meatloaf or baked chicken for dinner, enjoyed a book and some conversation, then went to bed around 10 pm….and just kept rinsing and repeating this daily pattern, indefinitely.
The geriatric population likes watching Bonanza or Gunsmoke for the same reason…..it reminds them of an even simpler time — before ANY modern technology. It also depicts an era when the roles of men, women, and children were solidified in Christian norms without even a hint of modern-day liberalism.
