Is it worse now than in the 60s?

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One of the 'weapons' SJWs, DEI, QT crowd try to push on us is that things are worse now than even in the 60s. I call bullshit and here is my video essay by way of the Smother Brothers.
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@mycompasstv 6 ай бұрын

"The Smothers Brothers were dealing with real issues, not multi-colored crosswalks that stain your shoes." Brilliant!

@CallMeChato 6 ай бұрын

Nice summary.

@leebrewer7394 6 ай бұрын

I read a little seeing he had died, 2 other members of his family also died in 2023. Sad.

@hellacoorinna9995 5 ай бұрын

Also, good music, free sex and drugs tend to sweeten the deal.

@leebrewer7394 5 ай бұрын

@@hellacoorinna9995 wtf you talking about?

@hellacoorinna9995 5 ай бұрын

@@leebrewer7394 Meant to post that seperately, I just happened to have been reading this comment. But, too late now to change that. But specifically, "The 1960s", or rather how the movement(s) that appealed to people (hippies, in particular). The old "catch more flies with honey" and all that.

@_XR40_ 6 ай бұрын

"If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.” ― C.S. Lewis

@BoojayDeeth 6 ай бұрын

There is nothing progressive about being pigheaded and refusing to admit a mistake. - also C.S. Lewis

@jimluebke3869 5 ай бұрын

"Progressive" seems to be one of those words that's been so badly abused, that it doesn't really have any meaning anymore.

@dwainmorris7854 6 ай бұрын

Yeah, and while I'm on my soap box back in the 60s. People knew what a woman was ,and it was not a man wearing makeup that was put on with a Shovel and a cheap wig. As a black kid growing up my favorite shows were Bonanza., Raw hide ,Batman, and Star Trek, and most of those shows didn't have a single black person on it. And did not impede my enjoyment of them. Nobody back in the 60s were worried about seeing themselves on the screen. That's just a narcissism of this generation. At my school yard, there was nothing but black kids running around with those little steel lunchboxes that had pictures of TV shows like Lost in Space. Gilligan's Island and a Long Ranger, and I did not hear a single kid say. I could really enjoy these shows if the stars were black.

@boobah5643 6 ай бұрын

I always wonder if the 'narcissism' claim is giving them too much credit. Yes, it's about _them,_ but it's on a more practical level: if more roles are set aside for people like me, I have far less competition for roles.

@dwainmorris7854 6 ай бұрын

@@boobah5643 Sounds like you're talking about actors . I was talking about the general audience.

@davidobrien9362 16 күн бұрын

What a great point,narcissism, that's dead right, Top man.

@dwainmorris7854 16 күн бұрын

@@davidobrien9362 Narcissism is DEAD ? Have you seen the crap Disney has been putting out . The Acolyte is nothing but a vanity project

@dwainmorris7854 16 күн бұрын

@@davidobrien9362 Narcissism is DEAD ? Have you seen the crap Disney has been putting out . The Acolyte is nothing but a vanity project

@00bikeboy 6 ай бұрын

"The USS Daycare" I friggin' love it !

@jakeviolet2195 6 ай бұрын

The difference between the 60s and todays is today's woke "social justice" agenda has corporate sponsorship and institutional backing. The children of the 60s fought against "the man" and today they are "the man." Back in the 60s you could still walk into a movie theater and watch a movie without being beat over the head with "the message." The biggest movie stars of the day (Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, John Wayne) were still masculine men and not effeminate bitches. Popular music echoed the social revolution of the time, but it was so goddamned good that it was hard not to appreciate, even if you didn't agree with the message. Today it's all message and zero art. Nothing but empty platitudes backed by the iron fist of the establishment.

@CallMeChato 6 ай бұрын

Nice. Thanks.

@als3022 6 ай бұрын

I noticed the big difference when the Greatest Generation started to get too old to be in power, and the Boomer generation started. It gave me a bad feeling to be honest.

@MJanovicable 6 ай бұрын

Sir, you have summarized this so very well.

@pineapplepizza4016 5 ай бұрын

It reminds me of George Orwell's Animal Farm. In the end, the pigs turned into the thing they fought against. That seems to be the fate of nearly every revolution.

@MJanovicable 5 ай бұрын

@@pineapplepizza4016 Hard to disagree.

@613harbinger316 6 ай бұрын

Wow! *"A bad sequel to the 60's"* is an excellent and apt description of today's troubles. Usually I'd want to say something like "a bad Asylum knockoff of the 60's", but that would imply too far of a separation between the engineers of the controversies and their philosophical and cultural genesis.

@couldnotbereachedforfurthe2647 6 ай бұрын

Well said, Chato. History is cyclical, and while I could have expected a retread of the 60's, I was NOT expecting an MMO version of the Spanish Inquisition.

@Strideo1 6 ай бұрын

I've heard no one expects those.

@AvengerII 6 ай бұрын

"The Inquisition, let's begin The Inquisition, look out sin...!"

@DanielDiCenso 6 ай бұрын

"Nooooo one expects us!"

@donpietruk1517 6 ай бұрын

It's more like a revisiting of the Puritan movement in my mind.

@ProductBasement 6 ай бұрын

Some good stuff in here, but I'm not sure that _One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest_ 's message of shutting down all the insane asylums and letting all the mentally ill people become criminals or homeless (or politicians) was such a good message to be spreading, in retrospect

@CallMeChato 6 ай бұрын

Hey, all I said was that it was a good movie. :-)

@jahintx 6 ай бұрын

Outstanding essay here, Chato! As a Conservative (in general), I wonder how my thinking would have been challenged by the events, conversations, and issues of the 1960's if I had lived through them. That being said, we don't know how good we have it today with the opportunities awaiting us if we would just stop listening to those whose only motive is to cause chaos and upturn the order of society.

@kerrylawson7515 6 ай бұрын

I was born mid-sixties. I saw culture go from respecting people who worked to venerating a bunch of unkempt hippies.

@CallMeChato 6 ай бұрын

The hippies back then remind me of Portland.

@catsupchutney 6 ай бұрын

Good point about the casting of Oppenheimer.

@santoven 6 ай бұрын

I love how CC renders "denizens of the internet" as "Dennis of the Internet." Love every one of your videos.

@kingleech16 6 ай бұрын

Clearly a descendant of Dennis the Menace.

@Fraulein_Sausageball 6 ай бұрын

Dennis of the Internet just constantly trolls Mr. Wilson.

@JosephFrancisBurton 6 ай бұрын

When Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan beamed that the lawless CHOP/CHAZ zone in her city would initiate a 'Summer of Love' , it was obvious to me that she wanted a "bad sequel to the 60's"

@darksidemachining 6 ай бұрын

Mr Chato…Great and thought provoking analysis. Gene Roddenberry seemed to be trying to push the boundaries of societal norms in his scripts for Star Trek TOS. Nichele Nichols was ready to quit the series because she felt out of place and uncomfortable but she only remained because Dr. MLK implored her to stay because as a black woman in those days in a leading role on a tv series was groundbreaking. Also, Roddenberry wrote in the script of Season 3 Episode 10 “Plato’s Stepchildren”, to have Kirk kiss Uhura . Supposedly, this was the first on screen interracial kiss on a tv series in entertainment history. People went berserk over that little scene. Though Roddenberry was trying to say something positive about the future between the races, he was not trying to preach or shove his hegemony down the audience’s throats.

@kathleenhensley5951 5 ай бұрын

What I remember about that episode is how respectful Kirk was to Uhura... I was maybe 17 and naive about the importance of the event... I just saw it as two favorite people in a bad situation acting respectfully towards each other.

@Dreadnought16 6 ай бұрын

Watching your content makes me realize that I’m not alone in thinking our world seems to have gone crazy….maybe we have become too successful???Thank you.

@Strideo1 6 ай бұрын

Where have all the average people gone?

@jarchack 6 ай бұрын

I was just a kid in the 60s and I remember it being a pretty tumultuous decade. I also remember begging my mom to let me go to Woodstock when I was 10 years old. Young people that are not intimately familiar with post-WWII history are going to be blind to a lot of things. Also, not everybody that is left of center is "woke".

@user-db5qd3wd6z 6 ай бұрын

I wanted to go to the 1970 Isle of Wight festival but my parents said no. I guess we missed out. . . .

@Dark_Kommissar 6 ай бұрын

We live in a time when people want immediate gratification. People nowadays don’t appreciate the progress that has been made and don’t have the patience that is needed for organic change to occur. They want all the world’s problems solved now. It would be nice but, realistically, change takes time.

@savageworks 6 ай бұрын

One reason why I put the 1960's Star Trek miles above all the other ones, was that it had balls. Too many people can't see past the colourful 60's sensibilities and realize the show was at risk of being cancelled on a near weekly basis because of the challenging stories they tackled. I can't think of a single Star Trek show since 1969 that ruffled anyone's hair since. THey just became too tame and safe. Star Trek SHOULDN'T be safe.

@STho205 5 ай бұрын

After the first 13 episodes it wasn't going to be canceled. Paramount bought Desilu with a loan based on syndication rights to MI, Star Trek and Mannix. Syndication then required at least 3 seasons 75-80eps and was usually more sucessful if the series was no longer on at night. That's why Gilligans Island and Lost in Space ended at 3 years....even though both were popular. The real trick was to keep NBC funding it for three years. Direct to syndication wouldn't really happen till the 80s, but was sorta a thing with british shows like The Avengers and UFO, Space 1999 in America. The threats of cancelation was often a bluff to keep the actors, writers and directors from insisting on more money.

@savageworks 5 ай бұрын

@@STho205 this doesn't sound like a credible story, given how legendary the studio thought the show was unpopular - hence the cancellation. It's very well known that studios weren't looking at the youth demographic that loved Star Trek when it was on.

@STho205 5 ай бұрын

@@savageworks it is outlined in Justman and Solow's book "Inside Star Trek The Real Story" written as a memoir in the 90s. It takes the view from the day to day producers and executive's POV, by the last two remaining original runners. Yes the contract to sell 75 episodes into syndication was made with a promise to buy from a new UHF syndicate in March of 1967. At that point only 18-20 episodes had shot and aired. This is discussed in the last chapter, the one courteously describing Justman's last sentimental meeting of GR before his death. Roddenberry made up most of the stuff he liked to riff on at convention speeches and the box set VHS or DVDs. He told people what they wanted to hear, always with him as the lone hero. Another surprise: NBC requested/required more diversity on the bridge after Pilot2 in a memo Spring 1966. They wanted Black and Asian weekly characters sitting center shot. This came as Roddenberry was not planning to offer a role in the series to Takei. Roddenberry said....OK keep him and....I "know" an actress....

@BlazingOwnager 6 ай бұрын

Very well said across the board. I'll never say I'm anything but a left leaning Liberal, and I refuse to have that hijacked by these people who would completely demolish what those words mean as they do so many others. I 100% believe in Equality, not Equity.

@Strideo1 6 ай бұрын

I believe in equity. I've been paying down my mortgage for a while now so I better get my equity if I sell the house. 😆

@georgejones5019 6 ай бұрын

Equality is for naive idealists. Nobody is ever truly equal to another in several aspects. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.

@BlazingOwnager 6 ай бұрын

@@georgejones5019 No, Equality is freedom and personal liberty. Equity is enforced quotas to push outcomes in the face of logic, sense, and a basic understanding of humanity.

@soulfirez4270 6 ай бұрын

@@BlazingOwnager You better go back to school as Equality doesnt mean that at all , low IQ weak betas like you are why your side was so easily hijacked ( because you guys to weak and stupid to stop it )

@mccloaker 6 ай бұрын

The important thing is that people have the opportunity to achieve their goals. If someone working in an Amazon warehouse wants, for example, to be a TV executive, like Chato enjoyed, they should have the same opportunity to do it that Chato had. That's all, no more, no less.

@TheVagolfer 6 ай бұрын

I grew up in the 60's also. The only thing for sure about comparing times is the music was better and the women were prettier back then, cars were cooler but not as safe as today and TV's are much better and bigger today.

@digitalnomad9985 6 ай бұрын

"TV's are much better and bigger today." And weigh less. And about 50 years from now when the copyright expires on the 1960s and 1970s we will have something to watch on them.

@michaeldavis3819 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this, @Chato ! I recently had a conversation with one of my older teenagers about "equity" versus "equality." "Equity" means that all outcomes for all groups are mandated to be the same by government. "Equality" means that people are given equal opportunities for education and work in life and are rewarded by a free market as their performance merits; it requires equal treatment before the law and respect for property rights. Equity is a world of ever-shifting goalposts and necessitates the destruction of individual freedom; it inherently discriminates based on race, gender, and any other metric you can create to measure "oppression." Equality creates opportunity and respects individual liberty. I know which system I'd rather live under.

@onehorseopensleigh 6 ай бұрын

Thanks to revisionist history across the Internet, it’s easy to forget the die-hard Republican Lucille Ball produced 1960s Star Trek and supported it because she believed in the optimistic outlook for the future. Walt Disney and Ronald Reagan were similarly “progressive” in that regard-along with Charlton Heston, who marched with MLK Jr. But facts are pesky for people in the 2020s.

@CouchCoop128 6 ай бұрын

Here's the thing, the 60s liberal movement was needed, civil rights, gender equality and racial equality desperately required an update, The neo left or todays left is another subject, its not needed and the pushing of the pendulum has gone way too far, 60s liberalism didn't come with White hate or Trans issues being pushed to minors. However ! The fallout from the drugs, heroin, acid, early crack cocaine...devastated an entire generation. The addiction and broken life's in the 70s from that movement, can still be felt to today! lll leave you with that denizen.

@markkavanagh7377 6 ай бұрын

I'd argue that the drug problem is actually that the authorities didn't legalise some drugs thus leading to the currant situation.

@chipcook5346 6 ай бұрын

The now is not liberal -- and it's not trying to conserve anything, either.

@CouchCoop128 6 ай бұрын

there's was a strange 'transition period; right? between 80-late 2000s, and then fentanyl and we know how that story ends @@markkavanagh7377

@chucksucks8640 6 ай бұрын

Those hippies were all communist.

@supremecaffeine2633 6 ай бұрын

@@markkavanagh7377 That makes no sense. The government only made them illegal. Their use was what created an addiction crisis.

@poorwotan 6 ай бұрын

Reality is that EVERY generation wants/needs to rebel against their elders. When we are young we are supposed to be that way as we start finding our way in life. Most of us fortunately grow out of that as we realize that life is real and it has precious little patience for those teenage thoughts based on (mostly partial/incomplete) understandings of politics.

@giantsparkplug3462 6 ай бұрын

I happened on "If...." late one night in the 80's, and it really spoke to the life I was living. Glad to see it get a shout out from Chato!

@PantheraOnca60 6 ай бұрын

I grew up in the 60s and 70s, and as chaotic as the 60s could be, there's a nasty undertone nowadays that wasn't present then. This is what happens when Billy Jack plays the long game and wins.

@dlfendel2844 6 ай бұрын

So true in every way Paul! I once heard a couple of mid-90's teens talking about how the 60's were so "bitchin!" and looked at them and smiled as, like you, a survivor of 'em, "Oh yeah! It was GREAT! We had Viet-Nam, Altamont, Watts, Chicago, drug od's, political corruption, and of course the threat of the Bomb! Swell times! Too bad you missed 'em!" and they just stared. BUT I MUST CORRECT YOU when you say people are EITHER too stupid OR too self-indulgent--as I know you must know....they're BOTH. :) Keep 'em coming!

@CallMeChato 6 ай бұрын

Hahaha

@MrGadfly772 6 ай бұрын

I'm an older gentleman, like yourself, and I remember the 60s. It was a really transformative time. Our very perspactives on the world, our economy, and our norms were challenged. People these days are so trivial by comparison. Sadly many of our generation have been corraled into petty issues. Identity politics is all that exists. Gone are the days of challenging "the establishment", now the obsession with minutiae IS the establishment. Your tagline ( "be seeing you"), an homage to the terrific series The Prisoner, has never been more prescient.

@als3022 6 ай бұрын

To be fair it was with the generation in the 1960's where this idea that we are the most special generation ever, and the past were stupid, or evil started. It's almost insanely easy to trace all the issues with the sense of entitlement and "special" mentality right to the front door of the 60's. I don't think your generation was corralled into the petty issues, that was what they always were. It's why they failed in the end. It's the romantization of that time period that screwed up many of the later generations. Not blaming it completely, but the seeds were planted.

@padawanmage71 6 ай бұрын

Rebels Without a Cause...will fabricate their own. As a product of its time, TOS was very progressive but only because the 60s were so turbulent they needed a show like that. TNG was fine, but watching it recently was an exercise in trying not to roll my eyes. Almost every episode, the Captain would preach over how 'bad' things are for the guest aliens, and how awesome things are with the Federation. I try and just avoid soap box shows like that, for more nuanced and layers shows like The Expanse, BSG 2000, Babylon 5, etc....

@als3022 6 ай бұрын

Yeah noticed that too about the show after a rewatch.

@Strideo1 6 ай бұрын

The Smothers Brothers being brothers and having their last name rhyme with brothers was a brilliant marketing move.

@chrisw6164 6 ай бұрын

And I thought it was bad 30 years ago when they tried to force Kramer to wear a ribbon.

@susandolan9543 6 ай бұрын

Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek that is, was, and always be SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS. Roddenberry presented a question with each and every episode. Then asked viewers to think about how to address these questions and find answers to them. Woke on the other hand doesn't present any questions it just tells you WHAT TO THINK. Not doing so gets you branded an IST or a PHOBE for not being "GOODTHINKFUL" (sorry for the Newspeak reference, but you might as well hearing now as some Woker is going to drop it in a sentence soon enough).

@tbessie 5 ай бұрын

I grew up with Smothers Brothers albums in the house, and I have vague memories of them and Pat Paulsen on TV (I was born in 1964). They gave me so much, i salute their comedic genius and bravery.

@BudoReflex 6 ай бұрын

As much as it’s the obvious comparison, Americans of the 60s vs Americans of now, the “revolution “ was way older than that. The Russians had thrown of religion, legalised easy divorce and birth control in the 1920s, and paid for that with a degradation of society only surpassed by the Chinese. Without an actual alternative, humanity threw off what took our entire history to create, like a spoilt two year old throwing it’s food across the room. Now, because that two year old is in their 60s and 70s, they would like to believe that the shear narcissism of their fight is somehow different from what happens now. It’s exactly the same. It’s not a poor sequel, it’s exactly the same shit show. Only a narcissist would argue that the rebels of the 60s were fighting for black rights and female liberation. They were rebelling, full stop. They won. They won a world where the emotional intelligence of a two year old now rules supreme.

@anyfriendofkevinbaconisafr177 6 ай бұрын

Cancel Pigs are always just a little more equal than the rest of us.

@superionmaximus9900 6 ай бұрын

As a child of the 70's I don't have a personal frame of reference for the 60's outside of stories from my parents and reruns of old shows like Star Trek, but I still feel where you're coming from. RIP Tommy Smothers

@DavidWatson-pw7xt 6 ай бұрын

I was thirteen in 1968 and my understanding of the larger world view was starting to take shape. The events of the late 60’s helped shape me into the conservative man I am today, for better or worse. Goodbye Tommy we’re going to miss you.

@hightierplayers2454 6 ай бұрын

We should all take a moment to compare time periods in history if we want perspective on today. Historical knowledge is, unfortunately, increasingly rare.

@Hecarim420 6 ай бұрын

The problem is that you can't "imagine" what you don't know so it's never occurring problem for peoples 👀ツ ==> In the sense it's just not OBVIOUS like for people who know those things ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@bradbierlich5659 6 ай бұрын

I'm a child of the 90s. I know that's nowhere near the 60s but with things like the first Gulf War, Oklahoma City Bombing, Waco, Columbine, 9/11, the Iraq War, the I-95 Sniper, the little things like canceling a dead movie star from the past is kinda first world.

@colleenkeefer2545 5 ай бұрын

I loved the Smothers Brothers as a kid. I’m enjoying watching them again now. RIP Tommy.

@Makeroomformushrooms 6 ай бұрын

Great thumbnail...."Hollywood...before and after"😂

@conroc01 6 ай бұрын

USS daycare! I spewed coffee across my keyboard lol! Well done!

@wbcc3388 6 ай бұрын

The original Smothers Brothers show was re-run several years ago and I saw all of it. The surprising thing to me was that it was NOT "The Smothers Brothers Political Comedy Hour". It was pretty much a comedy variety show with singing and sketches and very little politics. In 3 years there were probably only a dozen sketches that were actually political in nature.

@Eric_Hunt194 6 ай бұрын

I just assumed The Smothers Brothers were a figment of Paul's imagination to make his point. Kinda like that canoe man thing.

@MerrimanDevonshire 6 ай бұрын

What you see Chato is merely a reflection of "Forbidden Planet" talk of the Krell and their "Monsters of the ID".

@amithreily1764 5 ай бұрын

UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH ALERT!!! Before the desegrigation era black unbroken families was normal and were the most upwardly mobile communities.

@kirkclements4893 6 ай бұрын

I can remember in my southern Ontario high school assembly in 69, having US Army recruiters giving us a presentation to enlist in the US Army to help stop the domino effect in south east Asia. Yes, a foreign military came to Canada to find cannon fodder for their war. So being young skulls of mush, a year later all of the high schools in my city staged a walk out against the dress code so that we could wear blue jeans to school, LOL, and it worked.

@alwallace4538 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the homage to a true great. My Dad was everything you pointed out should hate Laugh In, but loved it.

@redshirtacademymortuary4848 6 ай бұрын

I wish this bit of enlightenment and common sense was made required viewing at every American college campus. It's desperately needed.

@CallMeChato 6 ай бұрын

I'm flattered.

@arioch2112 6 ай бұрын

Love your commentary and insight on the times. Thanks for covering topics so wide and varied! Swinging through the jungle of Knowledge is a pleasure with you Paul, as Phil Valentine used to say!

@CallMeChato 6 ай бұрын

Much appreciated! That's what I"m trying to do.

@IlyaKralinsky 6 ай бұрын

The difference is simple: the movement back then was moral; the movement today is rooted in fake intersectional studies and for that reason doesn't pass the smell test of general audiences. They're trying to hammer a grift into a new morality. A wonderful analysis as usual, Paul. I always look forward to the next video and was so pleased to see the notification for this post.

@MrJoshuaGray 6 ай бұрын

Hammering a grift into a new moral reality perfectly describes conservatives and liberals today.

@als3022 6 ай бұрын

Lots of 60's fans here.

@DanyTV79 6 ай бұрын

This is why I watch YT and your channel. Great thoughts and content, Mr. Chato!

@CallMeChato 6 ай бұрын

I appreciate that!

@apollion888 6 ай бұрын

Interesting and entertaining work as always. I'm trying to write a book that will help humanity pick up where 1967 and the Summer of Love left off. If the world ends, I did not succeed.

@denroy3 6 ай бұрын

Deep south conservative, but we watched The Smothers Brothers, dad was a Gunsmoke guy, didn't care for Bonanza...haha. He might get aggravated but we didn't tune out.

@robertpearson8798 5 ай бұрын

“If”. Now there’s a film I haven’t seen for a long time, not since the old Broadway Theatre in Hamilton shut down. I think I saw it in a double feature with “Oh Lucky Man!”. It was good preparation for seeing “A Clockwork Orange” (which I’ve seen a great many times).

@dwainmorris7854 6 ай бұрын

Yeah, you wanna talk about the 60s? I am a child of the 60s. Also I was born in 1960 and I tell you what as a black person. Seeing the civil rights movement, people talk more about race today than they did back then. You remember the 60s when both black and whites were equally as patriotic in America. both sides. Whether you are. Democrat or Republican All were pro capitalism? Unless you were a hippie.

@lafelong 6 ай бұрын

6:20 Yes... OG Trek solved all societal "problems" and showed an idyllic progressive future... yet Paramount has totally disavowed and erased the James T Kirk *character* for... -gestures broadly- something, I guess? It must've been television's first interracial kiss that was offensive?

@AL-ws5yi 6 ай бұрын

I am a child of the 70’s and 80’s. We were hopeful that things were getting better. At least I did. Now we seem to be going backwards.

@als3022 6 ай бұрын

They were, but things improving doesn't make the elites any money.

@pacershark452 5 ай бұрын

Watching movies from 1950 throught the 1970's Will tell you A LOT about what was going on in this country at the time. Its incredible how much was predicted.

@LordEriolTolkien 6 ай бұрын

Ironically, the problems we face today are trivial in comparison to the 60's but the societal situation is more dire and the stakes far higher

@als3022 6 ай бұрын

Trivial in comparison for now.

@markrichards7377 5 ай бұрын

Great point about Chekov in Trek. Remember when Abraham Lincoln was on the Enterprise? He says something racist to Uhura and she laughs basically shrugs it off because racism is so antiquated to be beneath her concern. It's utopia, plain and simple.

@kyleshockley1573 6 ай бұрын

It's not progress if it allows the underdog complete license to do whatever they want over others. It is a great way however to create favoritism, imbalance, and artificial division to keep everyone distracted.

@DavidTh2 6 ай бұрын

I think they still had adults back in those days. Nowadays, everyone is perpetually 16. The scary thing is that there seems to be a developing "competence gap" between generations. Too many distractions and people no longer taking pride in competence. Also, people seem to have problems controlling their emotions as compared to previous generations.

@SwingingInTheHood 6 ай бұрын

I was a wee lad back then, but I loved the Smothers Brothers -- and still do today. Funny how timeless their "counter-culture" humor was/is still today.

@BoojayDeeth 6 ай бұрын

Well you knocked that one out of the park Chato! Here's to a great 2024 for your channel.

@CallMeChato 6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much.

@_XR40_ 6 ай бұрын

"...I think we all need to stand behind the President - And _push..."_ -- Tommy Smothers, some episode of their show

@613harbinger316 6 ай бұрын

Comedy is _everything's_ kryptonite! Which is why it needs to be protected at all costs.

@timbuktu8069 6 ай бұрын

As someone who grew up in the 60s, I have no recollection of any of those events. I DO remember the color yellow...

@rigell2764 6 ай бұрын

I'm not super concerned about the culture war so much as I am the looming debt crisis, multiple wars abroad, and weakening diplomatic ties with China. Sure you had Vietnam, the Cold war, and some civil unrest in the '60s, but at least you had a decent economy, mostly intact families, and half the country didn't hate the country they lived in.

@brianmcguinness9642 6 ай бұрын

There was also an explosion of creativity in the 1960s, with many new forms of art and music appearing.

@leevee2658 6 ай бұрын

The 1960s had some of the best music and movies. And it's when shopping malls first became a thing.

@SirBlackReeds 5 ай бұрын

Or did it? 🤔

@TranscendentaLobo27 6 ай бұрын

Love your channel Chato! Insightful, entertaining, and well spoken, as always.

@CallMeChato 6 ай бұрын

Much appreciated!

@wavegun 6 ай бұрын

Super vid, Chato. As a fellow child of the 60's, I approve of everything you said!

@CallMeChato 6 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly

@wambutu7679 5 ай бұрын

I was conceived in 1966, so I've always been curious about that. Thanks for your take.

@chrispollard341 6 ай бұрын

Wasn't alive during the 60s but I can for sure say that things were better back then. The degenerate counter culture was up against a middle class America that still had a strong ethics and morals code, belief in God was stronger and the races were still segregated throughout much of the decade. Yes things were indeed much better.

@kathleenhensley5951 5 ай бұрын

I never identified myself with the sensibilities of the 60s, though I went through my teen yrs at that time. I never considered Smother brothers being counter culture, just different ... didn't watch it until I got married in 1975. My husband was far more free and adventurous concerning what he watched and thought, than, I was. I was a naive, gentle, very hard working Catholic girl/woman who was working in a Cafeteria and hardly ever sat down for TV. He also introduced me to Monty Python's Flying circus and Fire Sign Theater. (and other even more wonderful pleasures I will not name here.)

@yesh3 6 ай бұрын

To boldly go where no they has gone before.

@grallonsphere271 6 ай бұрын

I have come to the conclusion that by and larger, the zillenials are empty - hence why they latch on to any cause, no matter how minute.

@MJanovicable 6 ай бұрын

"Anti-racism? Anti-freeze!" Thank you, Paul, once more.

@Xx_HD_xX 5 ай бұрын

It seems as though those issues back in the day ( I can't speak personally about it as I'm but 35 years old) were more about helping others and what's going on today is baked in selfishness. Not just selfishness but also from a source of peer pressure. People being told to "believe what I say or suffer the consequences" rather than "Please take a moment to hear what I say & give your insight." Being an individual or thinking outside of the box feels like a sin & it all feels that way because it gets in the way of someone's self serving ends.

@philospeakNOW 6 ай бұрын

Even Mark Twain didn't like Oberlin College and that was over 100 years ago!

@haikaido 6 ай бұрын

This was such an awesome video. Please speak your mind more often like this.

@cmonkey63 5 ай бұрын

As someone who watched the early Apollo launches on a b&w (black and white, not Bower and Wilkins) tv sitting on the lounge room floor mere inches from the screen, I can safely say that the 60s were a time of real change. What have we got now? The breeze from the pendulum swinging just blew past the remaining hair I have left.

@ScriptDoctor 6 ай бұрын

The USS Daycare! Love it!

@sorceress1986 6 ай бұрын

If you want a movie that actually does challenge the left-right paradigm of today, I recommend Vengeance from 2022. And it’s a comedy.

@70galaxie 5 ай бұрын

as a man that spent his teens in the '70's,I sympathize. my parents lean conservative & always voted democrat mom's life(twice divorced)has ben counterproductive for it's entirety.she just turned 84. my dad just turned 85&his 4th wife is mildly upset he's not known his own name since just past 70. G.Davis sr. crabby,old, conservative veteran.not tired

@lachieechoecho 5 ай бұрын

It was kind of funny after watching this, great video by the way, that the ad that came on was for the sequel/reboot of Mean Girls. 😂

@kevinthetruckdriver353 6 ай бұрын

Now compare the 1970's to today. You were 10 years older in your 20's & I was in my teens. Oh. My entertainment of the 60's was Saturday morning cartoons. Batman (mostly for The Joker & Catwoman (Julie Newmar) 😍) on ABC with The Green Hornet. My Avengers were John Steed & Emma Peel 😍😍. That British show.

@pedroares6562 6 ай бұрын

Alos I thing right now censorship is much worse than in the 60s, yes as weird as it sounds. TV and movies aren't entertainment anymore, they also must taught people how they should think.

@irishnotsane9365 6 ай бұрын

The Smothers Brothers was hugely censored, it’s a major reason Laugh-In and Saturday Night Live were released by NBC

@williamwilson5127 6 ай бұрын

Everything Paul says is true. Tom and Dick were dealing with a torrent of issues at the time, but they were fun and funny. In North America these days, everything seems to be boring tedious shit, things that were fun and exciting in the past are now time consuming and annoying. People that can't be cancelled are now attacked on a regular basis, this serves to undermine them. They spend an inordinate amount of time fighting the same stupid battles against their detractors, in turn making themselves boring and ineffective.

@SaneGWM 6 ай бұрын

Dang…you could change that birth year on IMDb to 1964. Looking good Chato.

@andrefelixstudio2833 6 ай бұрын

We have a war on idiocy, never in my lifetime have I seen so many idiots or heard so many idiots be allowed to speak about nothing. Nice video great points!

@stygianjack9017 5 ай бұрын

No adverts on this one so KZfaq are doing their usual we’re not paying this KZfaqr ad revenue as we don’t like what he’s saying - even though it’s all true. Great work Chato.

@carlbieler9039 6 ай бұрын

Here! Here! Bravo my good man, BRAVO!

@CarlitosWay05 6 ай бұрын

Wow. I am so glad to hear this in such a thoughtful manner. That what we have in the US (because those are your reference points. I now your from Canada 🇨🇦) is really not as dier as we hear it is. Get over the pursuit of victimized and rejoice in the everyday freedom you have. Positive verses the Negative.

@johnhughes2124 6 ай бұрын

Child of the 90s, your right these issues just weren't issues by the time i was grown up, the battles had been won by then. Now they're just reopening all these battles, and I worry that the Woke are leaning into these issues so hard (esp DEI ) that they're reversing all the progress that had been made.

@CallMeChato 6 ай бұрын

Yep

@als3022 6 ай бұрын

Very profitable to the fear mongers.

@jackusmc2542 4 ай бұрын

Thanks Paul! Being a child of the 60's also, the Smothers Brothers were great. Even my fairly conservative parents liked it.

@LockeTheAuthentic 6 ай бұрын

I wasn't alive in the 60's. I'm alive now. So it must be at least a *little* better.

@davidobrien9362 16 күн бұрын

Very serious point Chato, who,what is behind the "man in dress is a woman" where has this suddenly come from ? Seriously, very Serious, where has this push come from ,once a back bench issue,now upfront and centre in our daily lives,aggressive with it as well .