Our culture is obsessed with youth, beauty, and bright, shiny objects. Americans, in general, don't respect our elders and learn from their life experiences. We ignore them and dismiss them as "over the hill" or "out of touch", etc. Our culture is so smug with youthful arrogance that anything done the "old fashioned" way is simply labeled as outdated crap, and we must adapt to the "new" way of doing things or risk being socially shunned.
Are we better of now than we were back then? We have more material stuff these days, but we are poor. It seems the farther out we go with the 'new' way of doing things, the more we slowly discover that the 'old' way of doing things was just fine the way it was.
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