I think you're right. I think now is just a good a time as any. Even better, because at least people TALK about the not-so-great things now. TO say that there were less problems in the "Fabulous Fifties" seems silly. There weren't less problems, there was less talk about different kinds of problems. Personally, I have trouble with the concept of isolating one decade in time and labelling it as "better" or "worse" than others. It's like taking a word out of a haiku and judging it on ITS value alone. It makes no sense. Then again, maybe that analogy doesn't either! :) ----Original Message Follows---- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:21:48 +1000 From: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com> Subject: Re: holy smoke To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu Reply-to: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu > I'm not embarrassed of modern humanity. I'm sad, but not embarrassed. I > think that, given the opportunity, people choose to be good, and to do > right. I thik people try, and if they fail, then that's sad. But not > embarrassing. Not to me, anyway. Me neither, and it really ticks me off to hear people saying that it does. Since Ancient Rome people have been whinging about how much better life was thirty years ago, which consolidates my belief that it's just a fundamental part of human nature to believe that the past must be intrinsically better. These times we're living in are the greatest! Camille verona_beach@geocities.com @ THE ARTS HOLE www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442 @ THE INVERTED FOREST www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com