[rockrr]

You are not alone.

I am reminded of the book “Future Shock” and the psychological concept of “too much change in too short a period of time”.

I am able to adapt and absorb to the changes confronting me - but I don’t in any way like them. I no longer recognize my country. Many (if not most) of the people around me look like they are walking around in a daze (or heavily medicated). The old civilized norms of cordial conduct are dead and gone. You can still say “hello” to your neighbor but chances are he or she will call the cops on you for it.

I thank God my parents aren’t having to cope with this crap.

[MrLucky1966]

You are not alone.

I am reminded of the book “Future Shock” and the psychological concept of “too much change in too short a period of time”.

I am able to adapt and absorb to the changes confronting me - but I don’t in any way like them. I no longer recognize my country. Many (if not most) of the people around me look like they are walking around in a daze (or heavily medicated). The old civilized norms of cordial conduct are dead and gone. You can still say “hello” to your neighbor but chances are he or she will call the cops on you for it.

I thank God my parents aren’t having to cope with this crap.

Yeah, things are so fast now, I can't keep up and the change is so fast I cannot keep up or comprehend. I remember when TV was mainly black and white and if you had color, you were well off or a techno geek. I still use a 1982 Zenith for the last 40 years. I remember home computers, you had 16K to 64K of RAM and loaded programs from cassettes (if lucky a 5.25" floppy disc) and went online with a 110/300 baud modem, if lucky, 1200.

My mother passed in 2013 in November of that year. Her last Christmas in 2012, she was watching an Andy Williams special and she started to cry and weep. I knew why but ha to ask. She said, "she misses the world of Andy Williams." I had tears in my eyes too, I know we had our world taken away.