Inkstainedwretch
One Too Many
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I've noticed that people always seem to be uncomfortable with their own time. There are always new things to fear or be anxious about and they don't remember it always to have been that way. People always seem to look back nostalgically to an unrealistic past (like the Fifties, or the Roaring Twenties or the Gay Nineties or the Wild West) and they look forward to a bright, improved future, but their present is always messy and chaotic. Right now we continually hear people complaining that "This isn't the America I grew up in!"Which is true, of course. In the history of the Republic, no middle-aged American has ever lived in the America he grew up in. America of the 50s was very different from the America of the 20s. America of 2016 is very different from America of 1976. The whole world is different. And it will be even more different in 10 or 20 years. "Normal"is the way things were when we were kids. Everything since then is unnatural.