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> wretched time and place to be a child I grew up in the 70s and 80s, and can certainly complain about a lot of things about that time. In your mind, what are

> wretched time and place to be a child I grew up in the 70s and 80s, and can certainly complain about a lot of things about that time. In your mind, what are the top few most wretched aspects of that time? I grew up in south central Los Angeles, and so gang and drug crime would be the top of my list.

lindseymysse 5y ago
I grew up in an ultra-conservative church called the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, that uses techniques like this: https://www.lutheranforum.com/blog/mobbing-systemic-spiritual-abuse-in-the-lcms https://www.lutheranforum.com/blog/mobbing-systemic-spiritua... to enforce it's very narrow, literal interpretation of the bible. Yes, of course they are physically and sexually abusive, and they use mobbing techniques against 5-11 year olds. Of course they idolized Reagan like a god, also. I live in LA now and ride the bus through South Central, and I've lived there and I have found that place far more welcoming to me than I ever did back in Montana. So, YMMV and the grass is always greener. But I'm a lot happier in the poor parts of LA than I ever was in Billings, Montana.
- Diederich 5y ago
  Wow that's rough, sorry you went through that growing up. South central has enormously improved since the late 70s up through the early 90s. As a kid, I was personally shot up a couple of times from the street. Crack houses were everywhere, and the gangs were pretty terrifying.
  - lindseymysse 5y ago
    I had two guns in my face by the time I left Elementary school, and I remember police officers marching down my block with rifles. People in Montana are armed to the teeth and often times drunk / high on meth. Houses were blowing up because they were meth factories on my block. There were drive bys in the 90's. The predators in the elementary school are allowed to prey. While I don't want to discount how bad things were in South Central back then, a lot of white people crime is swept under the rug and a lot of crime in ethnically diverse neighborhoods is splashed on front page news.
    - Diederich 5y ago
      Thank you for illuminating that, it's important.

lindseymysse 5y ago

I grew up in an ultra-conservative church called the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, that uses techniques like this: https://www.lutheranforum.com/blog/mobbing-systemic-spiritual-abuse-in-the-lcms https://www.lutheranforum.com/blog/mobbing-systemic-spiritua... to enforce it's very narrow, literal interpretation of the bible. Yes, of course they are physically and sexually abusive, and they use mobbing techniques against 5-11 year olds. Of course they idolized Reagan like a god, also. I live in LA now and ride the bus through South Central, and I've lived there and I have found that place far more welcoming to me than I ever did back in Montana. So, YMMV and the grass is always greener. But I'm a lot happier in the poor parts of LA than I ever was in Billings, Montana.

Diederich 5y ago
Wow that's rough, sorry you went through that growing up. South central has enormously improved since the late 70s up through the early 90s. As a kid, I was personally shot up a couple of times from the street. Crack houses were everywhere, and the gangs were pretty terrifying.
- lindseymysse 5y ago
  I had two guns in my face by the time I left Elementary school, and I remember police officers marching down my block with rifles. People in Montana are armed to the teeth and often times drunk / high on meth. Houses were blowing up because they were meth factories on my block. There were drive bys in the 90's. The predators in the elementary school are allowed to prey. While I don't want to discount how bad things were in South Central back then, a lot of white people crime is swept under the rug and a lot of crime in ethnically diverse neighborhoods is splashed on front page news.
  - Diederich 5y ago
    Thank you for illuminating that, it's important.