It is a truism that we look at the past with rose-colored glasses. Even if we remember particular bad things, it's against a romanticized background, of when people were better, morals were higher, the world was brighter and better.
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Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and regularity of former times, and celebrates the discipline and sobriety of the age in which his youth was passed; a happy age which is now no more to be expected, since confusion has broken in upon the world, and thrown down all the boundaries of civility and reverence.
— Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
The Rambler, #50 (8 Sep 1750)
Johnson, Samuel – The Rambler, #50 (8 Sep 1750) | WIST
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and regular
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You are so right the world has become full of liars in the white house congress it's full of greed and hate race baiters you name it poor have become more poor rich more rich what happened to our middle-class society its gone with God's grace people will vote for the right person you all know who it is change is not easy but we need the real change not the faux like they got you these last few years real heart felt change do what you know God knows
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