(January 3, 2015 at 10:58 am)Tonus Wrote: Mind you, I can recall people lamenting the state of the world for as long as I've been alive, and I know that my parents and their parents heard the same. We tend to filter the past through a very different lens than we use to observe the present and guess at the future. So it may simply be natural to worry that things are getting worse and that there is no end in sight because no one cares enough to change it.
A little book that backs up your point. It's well worth reading, if for no other reason than because it is amusing: The Good Old Days They Were Terrible
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
