When reasoning about the '50s, I think pop-culture fascination with the era makes them appear closer to modernity than they actually were. I mean: the '50s wer

When reasoning about the '50s, I think pop-culture fascination with the era makes them appear closer to modernity than they actually were. I mean: the '50s were 70 years ago. Imagine living in the '50s and talking about the 1880s: the French Third Republic, the British Empire, no airplanes, no radio or cinema...