The really sad thing is that I think that the current Superman is an accurate reflection of our times. God help us all.
I hope not.
Things have always been bad, the difference now is that the Media is trying to profit off of it and exploited it as much as possible. Therefore, making things look a lot worse than they really are.
To keep things on topic, I wasn't even born yet during the 1950's, or 1960's, I was born during the late 1970's but I was too young to read yet. I grew up during the 1980's. I rarely got to read the actual comics (just some early 80's stuff and some of the big Vs books), my Superman growing up as a kid was the Movies, old TV show, Superfriends and Superpowers. I did read the Man of Steel series when it 1st came out as they were released, and I decided right there never to read another Superman comic again, since he wasn't really Superman anymore.
It was only years later, during the freaking Superman-Blue era of all things, that I got my 1st true taste of the classic Superman. I have been reading about the classic Superman, doing research, and it all sounded so darn cool, but DC REFUSE to publish those old stories other than a few TPBs and I couldn't afford them at the time. Anyway, DC made this super crappy Superman Blue Superman Red 3D comic that was pure crap, but I brought it anyway, since it included a reprint of the old 3D Superman comic. As soon as I read the story with Lex Luther trying to steal the sun, I was hooked for life and rediscovered Classic Superman. As I got to read more and more classic stories, I just was blown away by just how much better they were than the current terrible Superman comics.