Nostalgia

I often wonder. Were things really better in the past or are we just looking at it through rose-coloured spectacles?

One reads the news. Crime seems to have short up 1000%. It is not safe to go out anywhere, yet, during World War Two, millions of innocent civilians were murdered. Were those not more dangerous times?

Social attitudes were more repressive. The early twentieth century was little better than the nineteenth century: long working hours, bad health care, starvation, women could not vote until 1928 or get a mortgage until 1968. What was good about that?

Some say that technology and internet have corrupted society. Those are the same people, who in the 1950's, said that television corrupted society. There is good and bad in everything: we just have to judge what is good and what is bad for us. If anything, technology has improved things. Half of us would be dead now if not for technological advancements and the internet provides information at one's fingertips instead of having to crawl outside in all weathers to find it outside. We should count ourselves lucky to be alive today.