We all see the flood of bad news and how people are drawn to negativity. Overall, quality of life in many countries is amazingly high nowadays, but there are plenty of atrocities going on. Despite what is on the news, there have been much worse atrocities in the past than we experience now. Becuase of 24/7 news networks and the internet, we are bomarded with information and since negativity sells, things look worse today. Do'nt we have it better than our parents did though?
2006-12-20 01:53:26 · 7 answers · asked by Adam 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Granted, that is the key word in your question. Ours is the good life as compared to most, including Kings and Queens, who have live through history until this day is granted to those of us in the western industrial countries. Even the poorest of us can go to Ryan’s and a feast better than Henry the 8th could dream of. We live on the largess of giants, a prosperity granted by those who sought to make it better for their children and the people to come. We do not have to work 18 hours a day, seven days a week just to put a roof over our heads and food on the table. If we work like that today it is to give our kids a car before they start High School, get them a X-Box, a TV in every room, and God don’t forget the cell-phones that every teenager just has to have. Yes, my kids have it better then I did, and I do not doubt that theirs will have it better then them.
And about atrocities there are about 23 recognized wars going on as we speak, the US involved in two of them. There were about 85 wars between 1945 and 1989. Nobody cared about the war that Iran fought Iraq for about 11 years before they made peace and Sadam invaded Kawate. Nor was there any out cry when Sadam sent women, children, and POWs through mind field to clear them for his troops in that 11 year war, but God forbid that any US troop throws a Koran in to a toilet!!! The atrocity of it all!
2006-12-20 02:32:21 · answer #1 · answered by thecarolinacowboy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely. People these days think that cell phones and cable tv are a "necessity" and if you don't live in a 3,000 square foot house with 2 cars in the garage and a pool in the back then you're somehow not getting what you deserve or getting screwed by the government. People have no concept of what it was like to live 100 years ago. Our expectations are too high. When it really bothers me is when I hear people saying you have to have 2 incomes to survive and a Mom can't afford to stay home with her kids. That's B.S. If you're willing to make sacrifices in your lifestyle, then you can do it (we have). Sell one of your cars...don't go out to eat...go to the library instead of the movies...it's just a matter of priorities and people tend to be too selfish to sacrifice their lifestyles.
2006-12-20 10:05:37 · answer #2 · answered by DGS 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm not sure. I think my parents had it better than what their kids do today based on financial reasons. Bad news is everywhere, but you can't let that affect your life. Some people don't have tv's, technology and the like, so they aren't affected. I guess it depends on ones perspective and what they define "quality of life" I might be poorer than my parents, but I have my health and a great family, to me that's quality.
2006-12-20 09:56:44 · answer #3 · answered by sno 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they do, they are inviting serious problems for themselves! However prosperous a country may be, the standard of living cannot be totally guaranteed! If people don't put in efforts for a better life, they have no standard and with no standard of their own, there won't be a standard to follow in their life!
2006-12-20 09:58:56 · answer #4 · answered by Sami V 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think we have it better than they did at all. I don't know how old you are but my parents didn't have to worry about letting me play outside alone, or walk to the library by myself. My parents didn't have to worry about someone opening fire in our school. They also didn't worry about Dad losing his job, back then people usually kept their jobs til retirement.
There wasn't a thing that went wrong with our car that Dad couldn't fix, no computers in it. Sure, only the ultra rich took European vacations but we had alot of fun with a tent in the woods too.
Nahh...they had it better.
2006-12-20 10:02:17 · answer #5 · answered by MeanKitty 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i agree with you. people on this earth are very selffish and inconsiderate. there don't care about earth. eg.golable warming,crimes, etc. it is like we don't know what is our purpose and we are making a living.we still don't know what we are doing here,why and how?.this world could survive if the whole world corperate and work one and other.what i mean like stop having conflicts and work together.if this happen this world could live longer.time will only tell. what if we don't have time?
2006-12-20 10:00:17 · answer #6 · answered by Namdev K 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The rich are getter it better; the poor are feeling it worse; and the middle class is slowly dissolving.
2006-12-20 09:55:07 · answer #7 · answered by BlytheLyssa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋