Well, many have had a memory lapse or two. They tend to forget many of the bad things of their generation and get frustrated with many of the changes that they don't understand. High tech stuff is pretty much beyond many from the depression era. My granny got frustrated when the TVs got beyond turning the dial by hand to the three or four channels she had. I can understand. Some things are changing faster than I can keep up with.

its hard for us to understand in this fast forward world that in 'thier' time, things worked at a snails pace, everything was done right etc etc. thats not to say that what we have isnt good! but many aspects of our lives are actually going back to those times-take organics, we are being forced back to old methods because agro chemicals insecticides herbicides etc are being banned by the dozen, old ways are being incorporated again (ae well as new friendly methods ) its all going bacwards at the moment, im sure when we get really old we will have the same attitude

can you picture your grandmother trying to handled a i-phone

I don't know why some of them do.

Have you heard or read what they've disdained from outside their generation?

Do they also denigrate things that came before their generation, such as the car, pasteurization, or the light bulb?

They think that they don't make em like they used to.

Becaue they are old.

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Because they are set in their ways and unable to adapt and accept what has changed since their time.

Not all are like that, some try to fit in. But the ones that are like that are similar to stubborn christions, they think their time is the only right time. They think the way things were back then gave them the feeling that, that was when the country or world, or their own lives were the best years, episodes in their own lives etc.

Beats me.

I'm thinking we're still getting good milage out of the transister, microwave, nuclear power, and sex personally.

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