^ yeah, again very very true. Would any of us who didn't actually want to live through the Great Depression? Count me out...
Funny thing though - broaden one's personal perspective a bit and look at the history of humanity with an objective eye and IMO one will find we haven't necessarily changed all that much, at least not on the most basic of levels.
Indeed, the older I get, the more I realize that perhaps yes, Shakespeare basically did write every human story possible.
But man, I would have loved to party with Greta Garbo and Vivien Leigh
