It has generally been the tendency of every generation to think that its own times are somehow worse and/or more disruptive than those of the preceding age or even than what their more remote forebears had to live through. This is a matter of basic human psychology: Events we experience personally, either directly or in some indirect way – even just as news – cannot fail to take a greater meaning and to concern us more deeply than the past movements of a History which has not touched us and of which we know (or think we know) merely from books.
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