Stop romanticizing the past, please

[khall]

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

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[musicman]

That's quite a time jump, from 200,000 BC to 1950 AD.

You forgot to mention sliced white bread. Much better with peanut butter on it, and jelly.

Or cold meatloaf sandwich on white bread with mayo and lettuce.

Oh, right, I can't eat white bread any more. Nevermind.

[ironphoenix]

*nods* Simpler, not necessarily better. And perhaps not quite as much simpler as we might think.

[free_of_whip]

Yeah, I grew up in the 1950s. And I still remember contraception being so controversial that the only doctor in town who would prescribe it was 80 years old, so he didn't fear losing his license any more. And abortion was illegal in many states. And gays were so closeted that it was only decades later that we discovered the "confirmed bachelor" wasn't actually looking for a wife. And one of the faculty members had to leave and go to San Francisco before she could stop pretending to be a he. And I couldn't get hired for many jobs, or get credit, because I was a woman. And the black family that tried to move into a white neighborhood had a cross burned on their lawn. And the John Birch Society was strong. And neighbors warned us not to vote for John Kennedy, because the country would be run from Rome if he became President. And in a prosecution for rape, the virginity of the plaintiff was an issue.

[khall]

See? This, exactly. Thank you for getting it.

K.

[musicman]

Ohio, with an Oh, and an H, and an i, and a little o!

[rose_cat]

God, I hate the word "wholesome." These days, like "family values," it usually seems to be code for something with an ugly undertone.

[khall]

Yes.

K.

[soubrettic]

Silly rabbit... don't you know simpler means purer and purer means better? You know, like in Lord of the Flies.

[khall]

Exactly. Carrying water from the river is not ever better than a faucet.:)

K.