Should we bring the " Good old days " back again?

There were no “good old days” because human nature remains constant over time. For everything that seemed better in the past, there was a trade-off of things that were worse then.

@AlfredaPrufrock. That’s a damn fine answer if I do say so myself. Who lurves you, baby? :o)

Aww, fluther, fluther, Blue. Batting my baby blues at you….

Lurve Alfreda, nothing else to say.

I think the “good old days” are going to be brought back for us by our foolish failed economy, and everyone else’s. Start growing vegetables asap.

@susanc Nothing like home grown! We doubled our garden this past year and saved a lot of money on bell peppers, that’s for sure.

can we just bring back the best parts?

I remember that my junior year in high school (1974) a HP calculator cost as much as a year’s worth of tuition at the local Jesuit boy’s high school. Most of them were going to go to engineering programs in college, and the calculator was the hot Christmas/graduation gift that year—$360, or something like that. I could use a slide ruler back then…

What do you think were the “best parts”?

malt shops, no box stores, no walmart, fewer people, granddad, grandma, government was “for the people”, doctors made house calls, no plastic, no nuclear, “No Trespassing” signs were not to be found, door to door salesmen, no fast food, it was hard to find products that were not made in the US, party phone lines, 3 channels on tv, no rap, no punk, children respected their elders, meals were ate at the table, manners were obvious in most all people, respect for another’s space, soda was a treat, no big gulp, milk was the drink of choice, pickup trucks were for work, you could work on your car, the dr. that delivered you was also your family dr. for life, did I mention malt shops?

Yeah, but then we’d all bitch about Medical Science and not being able to abolish most now common disease’s and cancers. About autos needing tune up’s every 6000 miles.
Yeah sounds good and we all want some of those old seemingly innocent things. But in reality we don’t. Really we don’t want to be with out all our new modern conveniences.
What we do want is life as it was WITHOUT lawyers…..
Those were the days of innocence….
The Good Old Days…..

forgot pushy lawyers, that’s a biggie too :-)

Disagree that in reality I wouldn’t take back my list in a heartbeat, I would.

But then, I never have been considered “normal”

At least at the consumer level, we can make choices about some of these things. Many of us really can grow vegetables, for example. We can decide not to drink soda. (Or bottled water!) We can “go back” to some of the things that worked fine all along – and choose from among the new things.

Not too long ago I asked fluther about life without TV. I got a lot of strong answers about not missing it. I still have it, though the only parts I “need” are TopChef (lurve it) and HBO. I haven’t stepped away. Now I’m promising… after the inauguration I’ll make the call.

Scared, though. What will keep my mind from making better decisions, if the tube is gone?

I am fortunate in that I get to live in an area where the part of my life that I have complete control over, does mingle with the past. I love gardening, have an acre garden, soda maybe one or two a year. We live in a rural area in Montana, about as backwoodsy behind the times as you can get. So I’m not exposed to a lot of reality like most people are and I like it that way, otherwise, I wouldn’t live here :-)

But… do without computers, digital cameras, television, medical marvels, nice warm homes, that would be difficult.

I guess I do kind of get to pick, ain’t life grand :)

Separate but equal, dying from cancer, especially breast cancer, not being employable because you’re female, gay bashing…

Sure, let’s go back to the days when you could be fired for being gay, when women were expected to stay at home and be housewives, when people who weren’t white were second-class citizens, when atheists were considered freaks and were expected to be silent, when divorced women and unmarried mothers were pariahs.

Sounds like heaven to me!

You can still be fired for being gay. Just depends where you are.

How about terminating pregnancy with knitting needles?