From: Kevin J. Bonham, sleepycat@eudoramail.com
Subject: Re: improved? [NC]
Date: 7/1/2001 6:02:59 AM
To: Seance List, seance@lists.no-fi.com


"GJ Page" <eyeseavancouver@home.com> wrote:

>The paradox of our time in history is
>that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers;

Electric guitars and synthesisers , but Marilyn Manson and Britney Spears ....  :P

I've seen this piece of eloquence doing the rounds somewhere before, and filed it under N for "nostalgia". It's nothing unique to our time, I've read stuff from the Ancient Greeks bemoaning the terminal loss of respect among the young and the inevitable decline of society it would produce.

In 100 years people will be patting themselves on the back about their magnificent progress over us abysmal primitives but wishing their society was as moral and wise as ours.  They will be at least half-wrong too, and for exactly the same reasons.

I'd be fascinated to know who this particular piece of internet distributa was originally written by.

Cheers, Kevin.


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