Stop romanticizing the past, please
Please, please stop it. Listen...the stuff people ate in the past? Often times killed them. They ate very poorly, very high calorie diets. When they could get food. Otherwise they starved to death and died. There's nothing 'wholesome' about living in a log cabin or detaching from society and becoming a recluse and living off of huckleberries and squirrels. It's not 'better for you'. Yes, there are some aspects of modern life that are not super-healthy for you. However, if you think it would be 'healthy' or 'better' to trade places with someone from the 200,000 BC-1800 AD time span, you have misunderstood the definition of 'progress' not to mention 'civilization' and/or 'human rights'. Just freaking stop. The 1950s were not a deeply wholesome time in American history. It was a time of oppression, domestic violence, racial discrimination, and active, intentional persecution of minorities including people of any alternative sexual or gender identity. It's better in every measurable way. There are new problems, more modern problems, but...problems existed in the past too. And...just stop the nostalgic delusional state. I hate it.
K.
K.