Wish we all could go back to those times. I didn’t grow up then, but better than now in few ways.
Well, what the Lord wants is the most important thing of all. We weren’t ever expected to camp out here forever.
The growth of inner space, otherwise known as the information technology age, has led to a more sheltered culture as well. Who cared about mercury vapor from the residue of busted fluorescent lamps in a leaky if not well aired out house whose residents were outside it more than inside of it anyhow?
But with the growth of inner space has come an exponential growth of communication between its pockets. The computer screens and smartphones, before which we all now sit or lay down, bear witness to that.
I’m pretty sure I would have been sitting down inside a lot more if we’d had the kind of computers and internet that we do now. Going outside was the way to get diversion. Now we can type in http://whatever and voila, hours and hours of content of every kind and we don’t have to budge. Even smartphones need to be charged eventually so it’s back into the building — books never ran out of power as long as there was light. And more such things.