{"id":131737,"date":"2016-10-06T22:43:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T04:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/06\/the-good-ol-days.html"},"modified":"2016-10-06T22:43:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T04:43:55","slug":"the-good-ol-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/06\/the-good-ol-days.html","title":{"rendered":"The Good Ol' Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

— Samuel Johnson<\/b> (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
The Rambler,<\/i> #50 (8 Sep 1750)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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