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Look at everything its getting worser and gonna get worst. School shootings and religion wars and food quality and weather everythings getting worser every year. People born before 1950 had it easy they had a best life
Oh yeah, real easy. Your worries are tiny compared with living under the threat of 'mutual assured destruction' for a dozen years or so. Never knowing if today was THE day you'd die in a nuclear explosion or from radiation sickness a few days after the bombs fell. Yeah, easy, real easy!
The grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence.
Worser and gonna get worst...hmmm. Simpler times were very bloody, kid. I don't care for the way things are headed but we live in a pretty peaceful time in the grand scheme of things.
I did nazi proper grammar and whatnot in your post. You may want to go concentrate on that in a special camp or some such.
Trust me, we have it easy compared to what the distant future will be. I'm very glad to be living now!
Yeah, sometimes i wish that i was born 30 years before now, or sometimes like 100 years before now.
Your reference to the 50s tipped you off as American. And the way you worded your question (school shootings, religious wars) sounds exactly like what a conservative 50s something person would say. The world seems to be unraveling in front of them. To a young person, it would be normal.
So perhaps you're actually older, a lot older, and are trying to validate, without stating it, that you're correct in your views and longing for the good ol' days when things were simpler, easier, people were nicer and whiter, outcomes are certain as the past always is, and it was just a grand wonderful time even though you had to walk to school uphill both ways (good exercise in fresh clean air).
If so, then no, the past wasn't better, it's just more certain. The present and the future have the possibility for negative outcomes whereas the past doesn't that's why the past seems safer. The uncertainty of the future allows for positive outcomes as well and those have been consistently delivered era after era, but we don't focus on those do we? Nope, we fret over the possibility of bad stuff in the future because it seems to only delver change in the present. And change is unsettling, constantly having to adapt. All that effort that is applied to create stability which produces predictable outcomes -- all that is constantly upset with constant change. It's natural, although irrational, to distrust the future. There's a reason that movies plots involving the future are always apocalyptic -- that grabs our attention, that sells tickets. A utopian movie set in the future is ~Yawn~. Unrealistic? But a Terminator Robot with a German accent isn't?
On the off chance you really are of this generation and just have an uncommon affection for the "simpler" 1950s and earlier which you could have no first person experience (so why not the 1850s?), the answer is still no. The future looks particularly bright for you and you're part of what is shaping up to be the greatest generation ever, even eclipsing the WWII generation. Hey check this out, you even have a shot at immortality (not like the 50s crowd). Would you really trade that for B&W television and have to listen to people say words like "swell" and "keen-o"?
I think of that too sometimes.
Sometimes I think I don't want to have children because of all the debt our country is in (United states). And how the environment is going. There are some things being done about it but not as much as we should be doing.
But when it comes to the violence there's never going to be a way to stop it. There is always going to be bad and good people in the world. That wont change, even though I wish it would.