The Good Ole Days, part 12.....

I found myself watching The Big Valley today on a station (INSP) that I don't usually watch for some reason.  I haven't seen The Big Valley in years and years.  But I watched the whole way through.   I began thinking about the old TV shows, the simple plots, where right was right and wrong was wrong.  Where the villain either was killed, or dropped to his knees crying repentance.  What happened to those TV shows?  Holy cow, what happened to life PERIOD?  The simple life.  The simple plot in real life and real time.  Where, if you steal, you got caught, were punished, you repented and made amends.  Good versus evil, plain and simple.  I don't think life has changed in reality, the same "sins" then are the same "sins" now.  WE, the people, have made it so much more complicated and complex and convoluted.  We, the people, have piled layers and layers of garbage on top by adding the "what ifs", "you don't understand", "maybe this" and "maybe that", etc.  Wrong is wrong.  Isn't it?  If it isn't, all those years my mom and dad were teaching me, and spanking me even though that was rare (and I survived!), and washing my mouth out with soap for saying words like "darn", all that effort on their part was in vain.  And my parents were the smartest people, the most faithful, the most honorable, geeeesh, just the best parents ever on the planet.  Father Knows Best and Donna Reed put together.  No, I choose to believe that they were correct and that right is right and wrong is wrong.  The Bible tells us so.  Not MY words but HIS words.  You know, it's coming back around to the ways of the Wild West, and maybe that ain't so bad.  We need to teach our children ourselves right from wrong.  We need to know how to protect ourselves, provide for ourselves, and so forth without government assistance or interference.  Let's dig down under the crap we have layered up and return to the simple.  From what I remember of the 50's, it wasn't so bad.....