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Daily lives has definitely changed in our society. It got faster, more direct and less personal. With the development of technology, transportation and the overall system, it is more convienient to live in this world. While some might think this is the best time of our lives, I believe that the level of happiness of people was higher before than now. The reasoning behind this is that the people were more intimate with each other and they have less pollution to worry about.
To start with, in the past, people were more intimate with each other because they have more chance to talk to each other. As it is more convienient for us to communicate by telephones or SMS, we don't take our time to actually talk to other people. We usually consider a waste of time since there are a lot of other method to communicate without actually having to see each other. So, people get the feeling that they care less about others. It might work well with some one but once a while, they all get lonely but don't know what to do. More importantly, it is harder to discuss important or sensitive subjects in front of people because people don't have intimate friends they can trust. In a way, it is a drawback of development of internet and technology. People are willing to discuss frivillous, light subjects but they try to avoid heavy sensitive subject.
On top of that, people in the past had less things to worry environmentally. As there has been a lot of development, people were forced to get to materials from the nature and it is deteriorating the nature. In the late 20th century, people didn't cared about the effect on the nature nor the consequences from those actions. Nowadays, we struggle to reinstate that nature that we destroyed years age. For example, before, the vehicle companies focused they goal simply on their convienience and speed. What they didn't take into consideration is that cars distroy air and use up all the fuels in the world. It will be the people in the future to worry about the environment. Nowadays, we struggle to fix the problem of air pollution that is really severe in the cities. Likewise, people worry more today than before about the envrionment.
In conclusion, I frimly believe that people in the past has less things to worry about or they were more happy. The rationale behind this is that people were more close before and they didn't have to worry about environment since the problem wasn't that severe. |