See my tag line since I joined FR.
Regarding your tagline- was it ever? :-)
One place where I really depart from most of the other freezers is that I do not believe there ever were ‘good old days’. People as individuals, people as groups, people as governments haven’t changed much; at least half are below average and I would bet the average Egyptian, Roman or Han Chinese would have identified with your tagline just as much as someone desperately pining for some ‘golden age’ of America.