Thank you, John Korling, for being the breath of fresh air in what is otherwise a headlong descent into codger-ville.... 
I'm as wild about nostalgia as the next guy. I love history to the point where I've made part of my living researching and writing about it for the last few years. But the world is every bit as interesting now as it was 50 or 100 years ago, and I'd much rather live in today's world.
That doesn't mean there aren't lessons to be taken from the past, there are many. And it certainly doesn't imply that I wouldn't be keen to step back into time once in awhile...I'd be the first person in line when the time machine opened for business On weekends. Maybe I could get a senior discount and use my frequent flyer miles....
overall, today is a much better place, and I'm thankful to be alive in such an interesting time. I also have great hope for the future.
The greatest lie ever told was the one that is perpetuated by old men of every generation--the myth of how our children and grandchildren are somehow less than previous generations. It was a lie two hundred years ago, it is a vicious falsehood now, and I'm quite sure it will still be untrue when my great-grand-nephew is an old fart swapping stories with the other curmudgeons at the Mars Rover authorized service center
Jeff C
"Gee Wally, tell Eddie to stop pickin' on me." Beaver Cleaver, 1957
