Late boomer here, trust me everything about the late 1960s to the early 1980s sucked. The 1980s and 1990s were good times and from 2000s on has been a mixed bag. You do not want to live in a world where there were about six channels on TV and new cartoons were only for Saturday mornings. Also no anime, pizza and Chinese takeout was exotic ethnic food and the cars got 15 miles per gallon and rusted out at 60,000 miles.