Quote:I was born after WWII into a house with no kitchen just a scullery and fireplace in living room, no inside toilet or bathroom, no central heating, no car, no phones, no double glazing no washing machine , no refrigerator or freezer, no car, no electric blankets and we walked to and from school and had classes of 40+.
No doubt in another couple of decades I will be able like you to say... I was born into a rented flat and grew up in houses with a small black & white CRT TV with 576 lines of resolution, you lit the gas stove with a match, the walls and loft were uninsulated and everyone wore jumpers. People walked to the supermarket and back carrying bags with their food shopping and peeled potatoes at home. Cars didn’t start in cold wet weather when you had to open the bonnet to clean the distributor and spray the HT leads and get up 20 minutes earlier to clock into the office/factory on time. No internet, no digital still or movie cameras, no youtube videos of how to do maths, no automated spelling correction, no email, no mobile phones. Teachers threw books, chalk and if really lucky wooden board erasers at you, perhaps pulled your hair and for some wielded a cane on your backside or hands. We had droughts, and strikes, and cold wars, polished our own shoes, darned socks, shouted directions from a paper map to the car driver etc. Nobody screened our health or cured cancers or took selfies or brought pop stars back as holograms.
We live in a world of remarkable technological progress. You don’t miss what doesn’t yet exist and it doesn’t make much sense to tell the current generation thay never had it so good - but people do it anyway.