Apparently recognizing and handling fascists.
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1975 is a weird place for that, actually. During and right after WWII motivations for fighting it were mixed. Obviously most white Southerners shipping off to Europe weren't anti-racist. Obviously Einstein was. The sanitised, mythologised version that people think back to today really got going in the 80's.
I remember last rememberance day in Canada, our public broadcaster did a live interview with a veteran. He was an actor involved in recruiting, and just casually mentioned it was a blackface act.
Want to say general automotive competency. As in you had to deal with carburetors on cold days so you had to adjust intake, spray starting fluid into it, know about oil pressure and warming it up, etc. Some people are barely able to conceptualize putting gas into the thing now.
Knowing the prices of typical appliances and such. Example, modern The Price is Right compared to the 80s and before. 50 years ago, people were more likely to know the prices for a multitude of reasons, one being there were more home owners in those generations who might be looking at replacements or upgrades. Now, home ownership is less and I couldn't begin to tell you the price of a washing machine being a renter.
Also, there were like 3 washing machines on sale. Now you have 50/manufacturer.
Navigation. You used to remember the way to all these places. Now it's just on the phone.
Worst fear is phone dying while driving.
Mending clothing, basic auto repair and woodworking.
Uhh.. not that I'm any good at it, but tying knots.
Bowline is a very cool and useful knot
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Meeting up with people, no phone. You arrange a place and a time, and you show up, if the other person isn't there... You wait.
It was super important not to leave people hanging
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Navigating a paper map.
You want to drive to a suburb of a big city. You have an address. The internet doesn't exist.
How do you get there? Well. You use a map. Almost every glove box would have a local and state map, if not a full map book like a Thomas brothers.
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Using a rotary phone. looking up a book in a card catalog. The ability to solve your own problems.
The ability to solve your own problems.
IMO, critical thinking is the single most important skill a human can learn. Teach a man to fish and all that.
They don't/cant learn that in today's world. They have abandoned learning and switched it out with answers to everything.
@grok can u explane wat bro sed in inglish plees
Look a perfect example.
Was with you untill the solve your own probles thing. I know of way many people who did not solve their own problems 50 yrs ago, passing their problems to their children instead.
When I was very young around 50 years ago I built a small flashlight using a plastic tick tack box, paper clips,a flashlight bulb and two AAA batteries. No one showed me how I just figured it out. So just because you couldn't see the problem solvers among you doesn't mean they were not there.
Yep, and that is still true. I was thinking more of the what to make of your life, family and mental health problems solving though.
People got more practice solving their own problems, anyway. Education to use for that was unambiguously lower, though, and there was plenty of people just not solving problems.
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