When I Was Your Age...

You can't compare one generation's upbringing to the next, it's apples and oranges.  The economy was different, technology was different, education was different, social problems were different, morals were different, communication was different, hell, our place in the world was different.

The curve of progress and getting left behind is accelerating.  In just one generation we went from vinyl records to CD's, rotary dial phones on party lines to bluetooth, Black and white TV's to Netflix, corner grocery stores to Amazon.com, you get the point.  Everything is faster, more expensive, more complicated more dangerous and more disposable.

A few non-tangibles have gotten lost in the mix; respect, honor, commitment, community, contentment, safety and independence, to name a few.  I can understand the desire to climb the ladder and get the latest shiny bauble, I really can.  But we have lost our defining character as a people in the process.