This does not factor in Abortion. How many unborn children are killed each year in the US?
A lot of Romans could have probably said how great things were 50 years before the Goths overran them.
re: no one with less than $250,000 in the bank has anything to worry about anymore.
I don’t have anything to worry about any more? That worries me.
In trying to make a valid point, the author lies a lot and detracts from his valid point.
Advanced societies have come and gone. I expect this one to do the same.
As a child, I remember all of our rental houses having one bathroom. But once I was married and with children, have never had one less than 2.5, the one now has five.
In my lifetime, and continuing still, the biggest thing is the changes in the computer/technology field.
I started 40 years ago as a Honeywell Systems Mainframe Operator in the USAF, AFSC 51130-B.
For the next 10 years I worked mainframes of various kinds. I specialized in what we then called mini-computers, Data General MV’s, Digital Equipment Corporation PDPs and VAXs, etc.
Switched over to PCs in the 80’s, learned a whole new world of PC networking then, worked the early Defense Data Network (DDN) that became MILNet and merged with DARPANet to become the Internet. We never looked back.
Became an MCSE upon retiring. Been teaching ever since. Nowadays, I teach online from my home. Much more comfortable and really saves on gasoline! I have a home network that rivals what we had in the Pentagon when I was stationed there in the late 80’s.
Consider the smartphone. Just a phone, right? But far more powerful than any 1990s PC or Mac. Think what the smart phone has done to the camera industry—or for that matter, what digital photography has done to film. Or music—remember the cassette tape in the boom box or Sony Walkman? I don’t even put data on tape or DVD any longer; everything is stored in the Cloud, which means I can access it from anywhere (and I do).
Bar fights over facts. Who needs Cliff Claven any longer when you have Google? In fact, there is SO much information out there it is mind-boggling. AND the web gives us the alternate media—with which we can and do dispute the so-called facts of the Leftwing biased media.
I used to read Time, Newsweek, US News and World Reports, the local and national newspapers. I used to love reading the letters to the editor because I was always interested in what others had to say about a news story—especially anyone enlightened enough to challenge the Leftwing mindset of the writers. Watched the Sunday News talk shows, the news every night, TV sitcoms and dramas...
NOT anymore. I get most of my news from Free Republic. I especially love it when folks tear into a news story and prove the bias or just wrong facts the Leftwing news is full of! I watch documentaries, movies, dramas and comedies I’M interested in over my Roku on the TV or on the Internet, but honestly I watch far less video than I used to.
I have learned to do so much on my own I NEVER would be doing if it wasn’t for online videos like YouTube. I have learned how to fix my own tractor, repair lawn equipment, cut down trees properly, fix the car, build a shed, replace the garbage disposal, and cook a fancy meal. I pay all my bills online and do most of my shopping online as well.
I am a type 1 diabetic. I wear a wireless insulin pump and glucose monitor. It is like having an artificial pancreas. And it keeps me alive!
I can’t wait to see what unfolds over the years left in my life!
Thanks for posting this. My son (age 25) often discuss what experiences and technical innovations his father (me), grandfather, great grandfather, and great-great grandfather lived through. It’s always a fun conversation. It’s also a fun and sneaky way to teach the broad sweep of history and use real family to establish a historical timeline the past 100-150 years.
Makes me proud to be living in a technologically advanced despotism.
I’ll consider all of these advantages as I salute and say ‘Hail, Hillary’ while I’m marching into the glorious future.
But I would express that differently: Slaveowners in the South were no better off than Queen Victoria, surely. And so are most black Americans.
progress is like compound interest – you don’t even notice it in the short run, but it’s mindblowing when you zoom out and see what can be accomplished over long periods.. . . and that sort of steady incremental progress is exactly what the rules of journalism filter out. IOW, Philippians 4:8"Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things." (New International Version)could with some justice be summarized, “Don’t dwell only on what is reported in the news.”Journalism is negative “If it bleeds, it leads” and superficial, both in regard to its short deadlines and because “Man Bites Dog, not Dog Bites Man” causes the news to reflect what does not usually happen (and especially, what we hope doesn’t happen). Since all journalists know this, all journalists know that they are negative and superficial, and yet they claim than all journalists are objective. News Flash! If you think negativity is objective, you are a cynic. Precisely what Philippians 4:8 warns against.
The cynicism of journalism is exactly mirrored in the politics of socialism, which explains why a Democrat politician can become an “objective journalist,” but a Republican politician cannot. Socialism is a war on wisdom.
Bookmark.
I think there needs to be a new word invented for desperate attempt at laugable anti-nostalgia comparisons between what are essentially two nations that STINK LIKE A DEAD SKUNK.
Let me enlighten the hideously ignorant author with a few OTHER things that Mr. Rockefeller didn’t have:
To worry about his daughter turning herself into an unpaid prostitute, murdering his grandbaby when she forgot her ‘free’ birth control, getting AIDS from an infected boyfriend who the public was too chickensh!t to quarantine, and him being unable to stop any of it short of kidnapping her.
He also didn’t have to worry about his wife serving him divorce papers and walking off with half or more of his estate because she woke up on the wrong side of the bed even if he had been a model husband from day one.
He also didn’t have to worry about an army of dindu-nuffins burning down or looting 6 digits worth of merchandise and real estate in the space of a week and who he couldn’t expect to be arrested (or shot) in significant numbers.
He also didn’t have to worry about where the upper two-thirds of his workforce would come from - the brains of the operations like managers, engineers, accountants, etc. - because the native birthrate was in a screaming nosedive.
He also didn’t have to worry about a repeat of 9/11 on one of his skyscrapers because his nation refused to exterminate a group of barbarians barely worth calling ‘people’ even after multiple attacks on their nation.
I could go on for pages, but I’ll make myself stop here.
Today you have very rich people whining about everything like that football player who has a contract worth #106 million and he is not the best player.