Progress

you remember Sat mornings when you were young? maybe you still are in which case if you don't you must have a very bad memory!

Laurel and Hardy on the TV, No one thought Tom was a bad influence for chasing Jerry up and down and through the walls. and generally trying to splatter the mouse. The mouse always won anyhow. Golly wogs weren't thought to be racist to have on the back of a jar of jam. People actually talked to each other, instead of being always in a rush. Most coke addicts were of the soft drinks kind. You could eat beef without turning into a mad cow. You could have your windows open without hearing obsceneties being bandied around every few mins.

Those days may not have been better in many ways. But they were simpler. life was simpler for everyone. Progress is good in many ways, but not so good in many more. Those days are gone, dead and buried. And I wouldn't want those particular days back. But the simplicity of life in a general way, without the hurly burly always taking place today, IMO was better.

From Dic.com

prog·ress ( P ) Pronunciation Key (prgrs, -rs, prgrs)n.
Movement, as toward a goal; advance.

What have we done to ourselves in the name of progress, huh?
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