What's your best example of "people used to age quicker in the olden days"?

Social and cultural changes. Baby boomers were pretty much brainwashed into the consumer life pattern and leaving teen years behind to become respectable mature homrle owning parents with good jobs was socially mandated. It was actually aspirational to present as a much older person once you'd exited the flush of youth years. It showed status, substance, and the sense that you's made it. When I was about 8 (1978) me and my friend used to be right old tearaways. My friend, Dave, had a bit of thing about annoyong and harrasing the dad of a kid on our year. I don't know why. But any time we were near the Hatfield's house he'd be compelled to ring the doorbell, rip up his shrubbery, climb on tne bonnet of his car, sling mud pies at the window. The thing was, we were 8. Mr Hatfield's son was 8. So Mr Hatfiled was in his 30s. He had a comb over, always in an old man's ahirt and tie with a tidy brown cardigan, brown trousers, Clarks Cornish Pastie shoes, Eroc Morcambe spectacles. He looked about 70. My dad was the same. All our dads looked like that at 30. I'm about to turn 54 and I *still* don't look like that. I dress like I'm in my 20s. I still ride BMX. I gravitate towards younger cultural things. The difference came about with Gen X. Gen X fundamentally rejected the values and the lofe patterns of our Baby boomer parents. We didn't want to grow up, be mature, be responsible. We broke the pattern and the pattern has never be re-established. The hippies, beatniks and original ravers all eventually conformed to the pattern. All that counterculture stuff was teanslated into mainstream culture and then commerce, and they became the thing they rejected. They became the establishment. Gen X never became the establisbment. We disn't habe any answers, so we just refused to conform and we largely remain outside of mainstream discourse. But what we did do, was break the pattern. Nobody looks old like they used to look old before the 90s arrived.