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\"\"<\/a>Some years ago my youngest son asked me if the whole world was in black and white when I was a child.\u00a0 I suspect he arrived at this conclusion from looking at old black and white photographs.\u00a0 It was a logical assumption based on the information he had at the time.\u00a0 I of course corrected this misconception and assured him we have all been living in technicolor for a long time.\u00a0 For some reason the memory of this popped into my head the other day.\u00a0 I chuckled at the memory, but then I started to think that maybe we did live in a black and white world in \u201cthe old days\u201d.<\/p>\n

When I was growing up there were only two political parties that I was aware of, Republicans and Democrats.\u00a0 That was pretty much a black and white scenario.\u00a0 You were either one or the other and oddly enough I do not recall people hating one another because of their political affiliations.\u00a0 Since then we seem to have inserted many shades of grey between the black and white politics.\u00a0 Now we have right and left wing, conservative and liberal, progressive, moderate, libertarian and probably some others that I am forgetting or not aware of. \u00a0\u00a0Each group does not like the other. \u00a0\u00a0Democrats hate republicans and Republicans hate democrats and all the various shades of light grey hate the various shades of dark grey.\u00a0 Sadly, it seems that the hatred has gotten so intense that it is impossible for anything productive to be accomplished because the hate is in the way.\u00a0 It needs to stop.<\/p>\n

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Also, when I was growing up the concept of gender was basically black and white.\u00a0 You either were or you were not.\u00a0 By that I mean you were either one gender or you were not and if you were not then you were the other gender.\u00a0 The choices were limited to only two, male or female.\u00a0 The restrooms were clearly labeled as men or women, boys or girls.\u00a0 There was no gender-neutral bathrooms and the concept of separate bathrooms was pervasive, unless you were at a rock concert.\u00a0 There a lot of the ladies seemed to abandon all modesty because they \u201cjust really had to pee\u201d.\u00a0 Gender confusion was not a problem then either.\u00a0 If one was confused by their gender, they simply had to look south of their navel.\u00a0 If something was pointing out, they were male, if they saw a vertical smile, they were female.\u00a0 That ended the confusion.\u00a0 This idea of a man in a woman\u2019s body or vice versa is, in my opinion, just so much baloney.\u00a0 Again, either you are, or you are not.\u00a0 And while on the subject, boys being permitted to use the girl\u2019s room is just plain wrong.\u00a0 Personally, I think this was thought up by some horny teen age boy because it was easier than drilling a peep hole, such as was demonstrated in the Porky\u2019s movie. \u00a0If you are not familiar with that, click here<\/a> for a short demo.<\/p>\n

My final point on the black and white world of long ago is that at one time people either got married, or they stayed single.\u00a0 If married, they lived as a couple and usually raised a family, if single, they lived alone or with roommates. They did not co-habitate and live as if married while retaining the illusion of being single.\u00a0 Some time in the late sixties, in the era of the hippies and free love, this black and white concept of married or single was abandoned.\u00a0 In the fifties the nuclear family was the predominant life and the goal of most young people.\u00a0 That was black and white.\u00a0 In today’s world the lines have become quite blurred with people living together, jumping from relationship to relationship, same sex marriages, single parent households and so on.\u00a0 Don\u2019t get me wrong.\u00a0 I am not advocating for or against anyone\u2019s lifestyle.\u00a0 How one lives their life is their business and as long as it does not negatively impact mine I \u00a0really don\u2019t care.\u00a0 You do your thing and I will do mine.\u00a0 I just point it out to illustrate the difference of the black and white world of my youth compared to the 49 shades of grey of today\u2019s world.\u00a0 So, you decide, were we better off in our black and white world?<\/p>\n

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Those are my thoughts, what are yours?<\/p>\n

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