The Good Old Days

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Been There

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The time we are living in now will never be known as “the good old days.” I don’t know what it will be called and I don’t have a name for these times, but whatever it is, I doubt if anyone in the future will say “Remember how great it was back in the early 2020’s?”
 

It's seems like we're transitioning into an age completely dominated by computer technology. Time will tell if that's a good thing.
 
SeniorBen said:
It's seems like we're transitioning into an age completely dominated by computer technology. Time will tell if that's a good thing.
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We’re not all transitioning, but a lot are. Adults doing it is one thing, but kids doing it tells me that some people have lost their mind by allowing children to make their own decision about whether they could transition without their parents permission.
 
Been There said:
The time we are living in now will never be known as “the good old days.” I don’t know what it will be called and I don’t have a name for these times, but whatever it is, I doubt if anyone in the future will say “Remember how great it was back in the early 2020’s?”
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I have worked in Hotels for many years. Most of the weddings at properties where I have worked have followed nearly the same format for the music. During dinner they all want something "classy" which always means Sinatra, et al.
 
I grew up in a small town McColl,S.C. my Daddy was the Police Chief there. I have many wonderful memories of my hometown yes, I was born there. 34 years later I returned to McColl and became the Police Chief. I remained there for 3 years then moved to another S.C. town again as their Police Chief upon my departure, my oldest brother Bill Player became Police Chief in McColl. You might say " we were the Law in them thar part"s.
 
In college, I had an assignment where I had to interview someone & there was several choices on topics. I don't remember all of them now, but the one I chose was living during the Great Depression. Both Mom & Dad grew up in it & had two different experiences. Even though it was bad, there was good things they remembered. I learned even more that it was important to listen to people about their personal experiences during historical events. You find out things that don't make into the history books.

Very few will have good things to say about what has been going on since 2020 to now. I hope what they do say will contain both good & bad experiences, not just one side. We won't be around to find out how this part of our history will be written in books, but I hope future generations will listen to the ones that lived through it to get a better idea of what took place. The media, the social influencers, talking-heads & others I feel are to biased to be objective.

I'm usually a positive person when it comes to things, but this is one event that I'm not sure about. I'd like to think the truth will come out about a lot of things, but at the moment I don't know if it will.
 
horseless carriage said:
The best music might be arguable but the cars, record players, gizmos and clothing really are second to none.
But I would say that, there again whenever I put up a self-portrait photo, I look like I have just stepped out of a late 1930's film set.
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Yeah, in my opinion, today's music industry is deplorable. And except for a handful of independent film producers, the American movie industry is, too.
 
Been There said:
The time we are living in now will never be known as “the good old days.” I don’t know what it will be called and I don’t have a name for these times, but whatever it is, I doubt if anyone in the future will say “Remember how great it was back in the early 2020’s?”
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You will never be more right than you are at this moment!!
 
The "Good Old Days" of 40 years ago when all of our utility bills (water, electricity, gas & telephone) were $20 a month. By now they are twenty times that much, but our income has gone up only ten times. Does anyone else share the same experience? In those days, gas was 25 cents a gallon. In California the gas is by now about twenty times that much, and just recently it was <$7/gallon somewhere on the countryside, as I heard it on TV.

Our water bill of about $80/month lists only 10% for actual water consumption. I am wondering how many millions the CEO makes. And our telephone bill includes items that I cancelled a long time ago. How do they get away with that? By just *ignoring* consumers complaints?

And for the future, already now we have so many homeless people. Won't "AI" and robots push even more people on the streets?

On the other hand, I already had a dozen perfect surgeries during the last twenty years several of which would not have been possible 40 years ago. And for the future there is talk of people living endlessly in perfect health (but starving on the streets?)

Confusing. What is your take on it?
 
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Actually, the last three years have been a few of the best for me. I wish that it just keeps getting better.
 
we're all expected to do everything too fast now - why? just relax and stop and smell the flowers occasionally - it's called caring for the soul and inner body organs
 
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