So much for the good old days

An article from the Australian titled "Without soothing heroin tonics, we're addicted to panic"
by Emma Tom, she notes:

"AUSTRALIAN society has gone to the dogs. The young are intravenously connected to iPods at birth and think nothing of pulling out a pink bit and performing a turkey slap live on national telly. Parents are permissive, schools are postmodern, and cruise ships, once innocuous floating nursing homes, are now dens of druggish vice and nudist iniquity.

If only we could return to the golden era. You know, that time when neat nuclear family units flourished behind white picket fences, blissfully free from the multitude of social ills that plague us today. No scary new technology, no sleazesome celebrities, no teenage girls in slutty porn-star singlets. Just good, old-fashioned moral uprightness."

Ahh yes, the rosy tinted view of the past still prevails, and the sky is still falling..

Emma Tom continues ...

"The overwhelming evidence is that the more things change, the more they stay eerily similar. But this is unlikely to come as a comfort to a society that loves working itself into a sky-is-falling frenzy. Oddly enough, we seem to prefer the panic. "

The good old days never really existed. Some things remain the same, some things change.

Thanks Romana (from the MOLES discussion group) for the link.