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Beestie · 02-27-2004, 08:01 AM

Are we better off now? I'll speak for myself and say definitely! The advances in medicine and technology alone are enough for me not to want to go back to Mayberry (despite the high esteem in which I hold wherever it was that Rockwell painted).

Everyone is different but I can never close a door once I have a glimpse of what's on the other side (good or bad). I can always move to a small town if I want a taste of the old days but for now, I want it all.

I'm not really sure things are more complicated now its just that folks who disagree with the "conventional" view have much more footing than they used to. In other words, I think things were simpler "back then" not because they really were but because pluralism at the societal level was unmercifully repressed and because it was easier to isolate a collective societal model like a Mayberry where the conventional wisdom is seldom challenged.

02-27-2004, 08:01 AM	#7
Beestie -◊\|≡·∙■·∙≡\|◊- Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Parts unknown. Posts: 4,081	Are we better off now? I'll speak for myself and say definitely! The advances in medicine and technology alone are enough for me not to want to go back to Mayberry (despite the high esteem in which I hold wherever it was that Rockwell painted). Everyone is different but I can never close a door once I have a glimpse of what's on the other side (good or bad). I can always move to a small town if I want a taste of the old days but for now, I want it all. I'm not really sure things are more complicated now its just that folks who disagree with the "conventional" view have much more footing than they used to. In other words, I think things were simpler "back then" not because they really were but because pluralism at the societal level was unmercifully repressed and because it was easier to isolate a collective societal model like a Mayberry where the conventional wisdom is seldom challenged. __________________ ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦