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It’s getting more expensive every day, but it’s just as terrible for you as it ever was.
We should probably start looking at curing society’s ills from the same perspective that we view the progression of what we refer to as modern medicine. I think and write about this a lot. I imagine it seems very plain and obvious to so many of us, and yet it still has no effect on a large portion of humanity’s need to uphold tradition. Our religions, our laws, our social norms, they’re all based on the needs of the time in which they were established. People want so badly to cement themselves in something they can count on—some sort of constant, and we get overwhelmed by the reality that these things need constant care, constant amendment, constant evolution to apply to the present.
If America had “values,” and those “values” were “righteous,” how did we end up here? Seems to me that the “values” people so fondly remember are, in fact, responsible for the current state of affairs. Perhaps, despite their intent, which may have at one time seemed “right” and “good,” they are now simply wrong and obsolete, like so many ancient medical practices. Maybe it’s not these old ideas that we need, but new and better ideas so we aren’t bloodletting to cure our societal ills.
Joseph D. Newcomer 
You are probably too young to remember the good old days, but unfortunately, I am not! There was a lot of good, but there was a lot of not-so-good. There was a time in the 50s that it wasn’t so bad, but then the maga industrialists rose to the top of the heap. Most of us didn’t even see or feel the rise until it was done! Our life now is like the Harry Potter struggle of the Muggles VS the Pure Blood Witches VS the half-breeds! The only way to overcome it is to show people that we are all the same inside. I have always believed that the only way our world can survive this divide is for us to have a mutual enemy! Sound silly, but what if we were truly visited by aliens? Think about it! We would surely be united in our mutual quest for survival! Sleep tight, don’t let the space bugs bite!
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I think it’s difficult to see the past as better. Human rights were a joke unless you were white and male, our insane emphasis on working, our lack of care for ourselves and other’s mental health- at least those things have progressed (of course, not nearly enough.) The common enemy should be ignorance and cut -throat consumerism, but it’s hard to see that ever being what we can all agree to battle. We need new and better solutions, always. Our misplaced nostalgia will never solve our issues.
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