Do you think people romanticise the past?

Very much so - we do it as individuals and as communities. Human nature has always been a bit twisted, hasn't it? Perhaps a little more today than yesterday.

by Vee

I definitely think people do. They talk about how children were much more respectful in the past etc and I think it's quite insulting. I was ALWAYS a respectful child, my kids are respectful. There are a lot of factors that go into it, and the time in which we live isn't top of the list.

by meggf

In some cases it was a time gone by, great stories and a wonderful life!..memories that people love to talk about.

Then we have the other side of the coin, where the working class had a very different life, one of hardship and hunger.

There was those that had.

Those that had not.

It was that simple.
It was very different, now we have in most places 'abundance'.

by jonaja

All the time. People are always going on about the "good old days" when supposedly everything was better and children respected their elders yadda yadda yadda. I can't hear that sort of thing and not raise an eyebrow. People are people. We're no better or worse than we have ever been. A lot of other things have changed for the better though.
We have cures for diseases lots of people used to die of, in some countries at least we don't live in daily fear of starving to death or being murdered any more.

Movies romanticise the past too. They tend not to show mediaeval peasants covered in filth and nobles covered in scars from diseases.

by Jennifer Muirhead

I think it is oart of the human condition to dwell on the positives. It is not healthy to dwell on what is wrong or difficult and so we water it down.

by Gayle Beveridge