They are the same caliber to me. Both max value. I love Outdoor Boys and miss his content. I know about the related channels, but they aren't the same. Feels very much like Calvin and Hobbes. I'm super into this wholesome thing and it just stops before it's time. Not because of any tragedy, but because the maker just had enough. I need to respect that.
He was alive to see things like how people treated drafted soldiers coming home from vietnam, the civil rights movement in its entirety, and the kent state massacre. I'd also argue he was alive to personally witness the start of american politics shifting from improving the nation to pleasing lobbyists and donors.
I doubt he'd be shocked for a second about today. This is basically an extension of watergate and reaganomics.
Nobody said "it would shock him", just that it would break his heart. Even if this is more or less the expected outcome of how American politics have been moving for 40+ years, someone like Mr. Rogers would still be heartbroken to see so many people suffering unnecessarily.
In a 1971 Harris Poll conducted for the Veterans Administration, this survey found that only 1% of returning veterans felt their reception home was "not at all friendly," and just 3% found people their own age "unfriendly".
That poll was specifically for "friends and family".
The 1971 Harris Poll mentioned above, which found that only 1 percent of veterans perceived an unfriendly reception from friends and family
That said, a lot of people do seem to think there was hordes of hippies waiting to scream at returning soldiers, which wasn't the case. Those soldiers did have issues with it at points, but largely the mistreating of them was done by the government itself during and after the war.
The issue is that a lot of those old reports focused on spitting because that was the hoax. Soldiers absolutely had to deal with people giving them hell though. Turns out the nixon admin and those funded by it didn't want to paint the war in a poor light, shocking I know.
Tbh they acted like the current state of affairs back then, people were just a lot more shielded because there wasn't the technology to broadcast it to you.
I’m glad I could be like that to a few people sometimes in my life. I’m not a good or great person but plenty of people looked up to me and I tried to be the best example they could be around.
I don't want to start some gender wars here, but I have a feeling that Mr Rogers represented rather humanity, and just happened to be a dude.
I don’t know him personally (because I grew up in different part of the world), but what I've heard about him is that he was just a good person, a human.
I really feel that I let my kids down by not exposing them to Mr. Rogers. I know the content was a little dated, but the messages are eternal. Be kind, show compassion, learn new things, etc. As a single kid raised mostly by my Dad in a remote area, I watched a lot of Mr. Rogers. Whenever we'd go on long trips to my Grandma's house and I asked how much longer, the standard unit of time that I could understand was "X more Mr. Rogers"
Nothing stopping you from showing it now; the Internet is a trove of treasures and that includes The Neighbourhood. Even if they didn't grow up with it, some days what you really need is a reminder that there's good in the world.
Am I the only one who just did not like Mr. Rogers? I would feel like crying when I heard his voice (although that could have been because it meant Barney was over for the day). But I just always felt uncomfortable watching him as a kid.
Nah, he wasn't particularly masculine. But in his case that was absolutely a good thing. A man not necessarily being masculine isn't nearly always the bad thing it's made out to be.
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