What in the world has changed?

The social norms have changed so much, its socially acceptable nowdays to:

Marry later in life/if at all, live in a defacto type relationships instead

Have less children/ or not at all, or buy a pet instead

Not buy a house, but rent

Live alone

Get into debt - (major debt)

Have a degree

Not smoke, but drink more and par-take in recreational drugs

Have computer skills

Live at home with parents till late 20's, even 30's

Have women in the workforce, and even earn more money than males

Have males looking after children

Have males in typically female work environments and vice-versa

Be Gay or Bi-sexual

Travel both insterstate and over-seas

Work Casual or part-time

Work on public holidays/nights/weekends

Eat in front of the TV

Eat alone

Dine Alone

...ohh how the world has changed? or has it?

With the exception of the 3 D's (Debt, Drinking and Drugs) I can't see too much wrong with any of those. Even the debt and drinking are OK in moderation (though the lack of moderation has become a big problem with both of those).

What hasnt changed is how people deal with all of the above.
Some embrace it.
Others avoid it.

It is like people are living slower in one sense,
- leave home later, marry later, have children later.

yet

live life faster

- more stress, more relationships that are not meaningful, information overload.

Easier to not mix with the world. TV, Internet, become a loner.

And we save time using computers and mobile phones and yet we spend all of our time on the bloody things!

Stop_the_clock said:

Work on public holidays/nights/weekends

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Good summary...I accept all those new things, with the exception of the one about working on public holidays/nights/weekends (yes, done all of it many times over, not again, thank you)...I think it's still an okay world...isn't it?

The more they can keep society working, in debt and entertained (tv movies drink and drugs) the easier to control the ant nest.

petervan said:

The more they can keep society working, in debt and entertained (tv movies drink and drugs) the easier to control the ant nest.

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Yep just like romans "keep the mob entertained".....next we will be drinking recycled sewage with a dash of fluoride!!

from adelaide.thats all we drink.i think our adelaide united soccer team had a bit too much of that fluride 6-0 what a barry crocker.

Accurate summary, STC.

I wonder if there's any correlation with the massive increase in prescribing of anti depressants?

A generation or two ago, were we in fact less depressed, or did we simply have less time to indulge feelings of sadness or disappointment?

Julia

Julia said:

A generation or two ago, were we in fact less depressed, or did we simply have less time to indulge feelings of sadness or disappointment?

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Or it could be the breakdown in traditional social supports...

Hi Julia,

I think part of the depression is caused by the slant of the media.

10 - 15 years ago the media mainly reported the news (except for The Mirror and the Globe )

Now we seem to get opinions disguised as news, with gross exaggerations accepted as normal.

Simple things which in the past would be described as sad are now TRAGIC , good deeds done are all HEROS !!! someone manages to beat some other poor sod twice they are CHAMPIONS !!! BEST EVER !!!

Lines from page 32 of a report are taken out of context and become SYDNEY WILL BE FLOODED .......... etc etc ........

All this BS does cause underlying stress in the average person, most do not have the time or experience to sort through the biased spin and try to get a balanced view.

In the long term people will stop watching the news and buying the papers because it is all too depressing, so they only hear it third hand and just get more depressed.

Especially the people becoming adults in the last 5 - 10 years, they have never had the opportunity to read a balanced news report and form their own opinion, news is all dramatised to shock and it is usually the follow up article 3-4 days later that is closest to the truth but no one reads it as it is on page 27.

The world will always change because each generation likes to make changes to improve it , every generation knows more than all the previous generations put together, at least they think they do