I hate the good old days!
For a very simple reason:
What good can those days do now when we constantly moving into the future??
Don’t get me wrong my good people, history is wonderful. Just seeing how we humans did things in the past fascinates me. And of course if you don’t remember the past you are doomed to repeat it. But we seem to be in a time where we have a hard time dealing with the future. Generally speaking, I believe we love the “good old days” since it keeps our minds off the future issues. The future is scary and many of us don’t want to tackle it. Look at health care for example. It is loaded with multi-faceted, multi-dimensional issues that cross the lines of the moral, ethical, and financial. Reforming and/or revising health care in America will challenge our past and current ways of thinking. If you think about heath care carefully, it’s enough to make you want to stick your head under a rock. So what do some of our elders say:
I remember when doctors made house calls and really cared about you. Those were the good old days.
Sorry people but corporations and capitalism has changed that. And alot of us went along with it since we love the free market. But the future of this issue is long, winding, and treacherous.
As a journeyman futurist, I have learned to embrace the future no matter the issue. I’ve found that if you break issues down to bite-size chunks, you can absorb them better. I think it is imperative for us to embrace the future and not run from it. And stop using the good old days as a crutch. Especially you civil rights and religious leaders. Some of the stuff that comes out of your mouths needs to be packaged up and thrown back in your face with attitude. More on that later.
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I remember when doctors made house calls…
Yeah, but what they forget is that often that kindly old-time doctor couldn’t do anything for you when he got there. When I was a kid grown-ups were always telling me “You gotta take the bad with the good,” and I HATED that line. It sounded like a cop-out to me but doggone it if it isn’t true - sometimes. The “good old days” really were better in some ways but I don’t want to trade what we’ve got today for them.