In the 60s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal. No, seriously, think about it. The way my parents get all nostalgic about the 60s makes me wonder if that wasn't a better time.
Sure, nowadays we have telephones and jet engines and TV and the internet. But think about how much more complicated and difficult life is. I constantly hear of people having to hold down two jobs just to make ends meet. It's a time of high taxes and nothing in return. The property market is in shambles and home owners are terrified. Social security is a joke and those now in their 30s may not even have a social security to fall back on when it's time for us to retire.
Fuel prices are at an all-time high, countries are at war, AIDS is still ravaging the planet and famine is causing people around the world to starve. The ozone layer is depleting and the ice caps are melting. And what do we do? Anything we can to make another buck.
People in the 60s worked to live. Now, we live to work. You put in 10, 11, 12 hours a day and for what? To put food on the table and to keep the lights on. What a sad existence we have. I want to live in the 60s.
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