[Sidney Lanier]

I couldn't agree more with Chelsea. People are the same and there's nothing new, though today's rapid technology gets us to see the 'nothing new' faster and more instantaneously so things are more out in the open. We can point to the differences in behaviors of children today versus a few decades ago (when we were children), and this is real, but how different is the greater world around us as we relate to it? We have one good friend who says that the only good thing about the good old days is that they're gone. I think we need to be mindful, as we criticize what we see as deterioration between then and now, is to not overlook other differences that are improvements (using the Jim Crow laws mentioned earlier as an example--and there are lots more examples).