You made some good observations, Camille, but your conclusions were backwards :) We idealize the past because the present ALWAYS sucks. Which means the past always Sucked :) heh ;) Jim On Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:21:48 +1000 Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com> writes: > >> 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 > ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]