There was a scramble in a lot of ways!  Hold on I'll recount some bits.

  John 20:28. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and My God.

  Not sure that it had occurred to people that the Baby Boomer generation was huge; large and in charge!  And they were, since their births, the economic engine of the mainstay.  As the Greatest Generation mixing back into civilian population, the Baby Boomers started growing up and navigating a world that had nuked, and that had like the carpenter fixing up the carpenter's wife's house last, NOT RETREATED.  The fighting went on in the Pacific for quite some time after Europe started painting some orderly driving signs post-Victory.

  Hitler and the damages wrought were world-mind-blowing.  And in the way the hardcore military people next marched to deal with "Korea" and world diplomats and social service people did trauma recovery work, the healing that needed to happen was on a smithereened human and sense of humanity.

  Vietnam was more dealing with a world perforated on capitalism/communism than any kind of decision to hate, to enemy.  What the little heroic nation found was that in foreign affairs....the line is razor thin.

  After Vietnam there was a mini-version of Allies/Axis re-study.  Back tracking to Colonial in order to not sieve what gains democracy and autocracy (?) had made in rebuilding nation-selves and ideology.

  Culturally in many ways there was a game of freeze tag.  But for the "radicals" rocking the boats, mostly to convey stuff like....racism and religious creed....as an intellectualism grappled with its own existence/absence it was also called upon in the way a child who has been orphaned may or may not feel drawn to a someone to trust....maybe the pastor might have an answer....maybe someone else's grandma might have an extra cookie and story of the old world.

  Fashion and food and music and television was given out in black and white first.  Comedy was cautiously prepared and delivered like sermons at Mass or water pills for "heart problems".

  In the late 1950's and 1960's, in mass or group reality, "counter-culture" was as proportionally enormous as it was in Galileo's day when being deemed "heretic" also had personally epic consequence.

  We moved as a spongy number one big hand defending the right to like a sports team, gradually into; a kid started a wave of hands up and down in a stadium....Can we do it too Ma?????

  Get ready, our mother would give fair warning to the younger kids.

  At homes from events and gatherings people needed to "process" what things were meaning.

  "Gen X" was only producing a certain amount of truck drivers per high school graduation year; likewise accountants; the same with enlisting.  Grocery stores, department stores, schools, and other "settled" institution as infrastructure were careers and lifetime (sometimes generational) professions and trades.

  Meanwhile travel was increasing; ways people could live in other countries were blooming; intangibles like advertising and "pop culture" were beginning to go faster and faster....

I gotta get ready for work