Sixteen signs of cultural change

October 26, 5:44 PMHartford Conservative ExaminerJohn Talleos

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   It's hard to judge whether the culture has has gotten better or worse.  Some things have changed for the better.  For one thing less people smoke, that's a good thing.   Some other things aren't so good such as people seem to think tee-shirts are shirts and not undergarments.  Teenagers are the same in that they want to express their individuality by being like everyone else around them. 

  Here are sixteen contrasting items from the past and present.  You be the judge if they are improvements or not.

  1.  In the past criticism of a movie was that even though it was alright the original book was much better. Today we say a movie was pretty good but the original cartoon was funnier.

  2.  Earlier times most men would wear a shirt and tie with a jacket even on weekends, picnics and ball games. Today men dress like softball players only the baseball cap is on backwards and if it's warm wear sandals.

 3. In the past the woman were beautiful. Today they're still beautiful you just have to make sure they're not men in disguise.

 4. In the past sticks and stones broke your bones but today the words hurt as well.

 5. Teens used to have long hair, wear jeans, play the guitar, maybe smoke dope and were liberal. Today's teens dress like wizards with holes all over their faces, take depression pills, play fake video guitars and can't name the vice-president.

 6.  Graffiti used to be on walls and trains. Now its spread to arms necks and backs.

 7. In the past we had mutual assured destruction. Today we have a 'reset' button.

 8. Parents used to complain about kids spending too much time in front of the television and it was making them stupid. They may have had a point because those kids have grown up to complain about their kids spending too much time in front of the computer.

  9. In economics we used to have gas lines. Before that there were bread lines. Today the long lines are for Britany Spears tickets.

 10. Vampires in movies used to be creepy old men and were the villains. Today vampires are cool, young, good looking and are the hero's.

 12. In the past if you were poor you were thin because you didn't eat much. Today the poor suffer from obesity.

 13. In the past there was a family TV show called Eight is Enough. Today there is a family show called Jon and Kate plus Eight.   Eight is Enough was fiction and the children were too much. Jon and Kate plus Eight is a reality show and its the parents that need to sit in the corner.

 14. Today phones have to be replaced every two years and when located in a dead zones don't work. Before phones lasted forever and worked every time.

 15. Today we have to ask if we can smoke.  Before we used to ask for an ashtray.

 16. Before liberals were radicals taking on the establishment because they saw it as too controlling. Now they're in power and want to run everything.