The 60's. Wow. I grew up in the 60's, I lived in the 60's and remember them. Robin Williams said that if you remember the 60's you weren't there. Crap, he was probably spaced out but not everybody was, it was about more than that.
The music was awesome and a huge variety from soft ballads, flower power to rock. Soul came to the shores of the UK with Tamla Mowtown, then got even heavier with recordings from Stax Records, music never heard of much before. Whatever you liked, you'd find it.
You have to remember that particularly for the UK, bit racist but I'm concentrating on the white anglo saxon Brits, Yanks, Canadians and Aussies here, our parents and grandparents had lived through two world wars. The kids that grew up to be teenagers in the sixties, didn't know what war was, hadn't lived and been brought up under a constant threat. The so called baby boomers. Our parents didn't have much so we had to go out and earn a living. After that, it all turned to shit.
Maybe you are right, maybe someone should have pressed the button back then, because it's never going to be that good again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu5zrI3eUL0