Honestly, though, part of me wonders if the way we feel now is how it felt to a well-adjusted young person circa 1969 who were small children throughout the Fifties and into the early Sixties. That is, while their point of view would've no doubt been colored by childhood nostalgia, they'd have still remembered how much more "muted" politics and pop culture were under Eisenhower (1953 to 1961) and JFK (1961 to 1963) than under LBJ (1964 onwards). Not to mention watching their peers go crazy at Woodstock or form something of an "activist-to-terrorist" pipeline to the Weather Underground, only to be taken aback as those got whitewashed or memory-holed retroactively. Kinda' hard to miss the similarities with the early and late 2010s, now that I think about it — especially since Obama's first and second terms delineate the two well in "atmosphere", just as Kennedy's and Johnson's presidencies did the Sixties.