Kids today have it so much harder than we did.
America used to be a nation of ‘Christian’ principles.
People used to care about each other.
Neighbors used to know each other and watch out for each other.
Children were better educated back then.
We don’t have a strong moral foundation any more.
The earth is getting more and more polluted and no one is doing anything about it.
It was better when all food were local and you knew the farmers who grew it.
Entertainment used to be so wholesome and uplifting, not like today’s mean music and movies.
SO, having said all that, I would like to hear from YOU, what is BETTER now than in ages past?
Drawing © 2017 Marty Coleman
“There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.” – Lillian Eichler Watson, author of ‘Light From Many Lamps – A Treasury of Inspiration’ and ‘The Book of Etiquette’, (early 1900s)
>Let's see… most of us don't die or lose pieces of ourselves due to bacterial infection anymore. I bet most gay people in our country don't feel like they need to commit suicide to escape themselves,even though too many still get beat up and murdered. Women can vote and wear pants, or shorts, and bare their arms and have jobs. The birth control pill has made things a tad easier for a lot of people. We don't have to stand up, or sit in one spot, to talk on the phone. We can stay inside to go to the bathroom and we don't have to go outside to turn the t.v. antenna around to get a different channel. 911 is a pretty good system. I can find the answer to anything I want to know with a few strokes of a very easily depressed key on a computer keyboard. The backspace key is really nice. (I hated carbon paper.) I'm allowed to be married to my husband, who happens to not be the same color as I am. I was able to "talk" to my son via email almost everyday he was in Afghanistan and then again when he was in Antarctica. Women don't get banished or stoned to death when they have children out of wedlock. (Of course, this is still a problem on too much of our planet.) Nor are they forced to give them up for adoption. Kids don't work in the coal mines anymore and … Shall I go on? Nostalgia really tends to leave out the bad parts.