you all should watch the episode of Penn & Teller: BULLSHIT! on nostalgia. i think it kinda touches on some of these "good ol' days" fallacies. 1957- Tarvaris is on his way to school and is beat up by a group of white kids calling him a "damn ******." Principal sends kids to class and Tarvaris to the nurse saying, "Boys will be boys at their age." 2009- Tarvaris is on his way to school and is beat up by a group of black kids calling him a "damn *****." Tarvaris's white friends witness the beat down and don't get involved for fear of being "racist" for hitting his black assailants. ************* 1957- Daddy hits mommy for not having dinner ready when he gets home. Mommy calls police. Chief figures they'll work it out. 2009- Daddy comes home and complains there's no food in the pantry and that one of them should probably go to the grocery store. Mommy hits daddy for always imposing sexist roles on her after assuming he meant her. Mommy gets kids, house, cars, and all the money in the divorce settlement. ************************ 1957- Kid uses aforementioned firecrackers to blow up ant hill. Kid has a good time. 2009- Kid uses aforementioned firecrackers to blow up ant hill. PETA finds out and attacks father's "parenting" methods. Dad is doused in animal blood on his way to work where he's later blown up in a car bomb outside his office. PETA denies providing funds to bomber, but publicly available tax records indicate large sums given to bomber and family. PETA not charged. (see Rodney Coronado) *********************** 1957- Pervert caught checking out porn in public library, gets arrested and fined. 2009- Pervert caught checking out porn in public library. ACLU defends his rights to porn and sues the library for not setting up "private masturbation booths" around computers. Perv gets $1,000,000 from taxpayers and his own masturbation suite by the kids computers. ********************** 1957- Russians ship missiles to Cuba to scare Americans shitless. 2009- Russians help Iran build nuclear facility to scare Americans shitless. ********************* 1957- Hippies use global cooling to scare Americans shitless 2009- Al Gore uses global warming to scare Americans shitless. *********** 1957- Eisenhower builds the interstate system. 2009- Al Gore invents teh interwebz.