It's not much consolation, but things weren't quite so rosy 50 years ago as commercials like that would have us believe, nor are things so universally bad these days as some would have us believe. Then, it seemed that the instigators in society wanted everything to look good, whether or not it really was. Now, they try to inflame the problems that were already there and make them worse as their way to make a name for themselves, The truth, then as now, is in neither extreme.
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