Daily Blog Day 1 – Monday, January 24, 2011
Question: Is modern life "always" better than it was in the past?
Modern life sometimes does not seem like it is that much different or better than it was in the past, and the truth is it isn’t. In one perspective, you have to consider the meaning of better. If you take better and look at it closely you realize that this is asking for you unique individual view on the present modern time compared to a different time. This is what makes it trick. You need some kind of base line to classify better and what it is asking. Many things could get mixed up because of individual people’s personal perspectives. For example, in simple times, if one person, let’s say named Fred, was poor as a child, but in modern times was rich. He would probably say modern life is always better than in the past. Although, if there is a was a man named Bob who was rich as a child, and then poor now, he would most likely say that modern life is not always better than in the past. This is why you have to classify the question more clearly. If you were to classify this under history it seems, there has been a constant up and down in things. For example, the stock market constantly moves up and down, and that we constantly go into depression and back out into growth again and again. Therefore, you cannot say that in history that has never ever been a point when modern life was not lower than a point in the past. Although, this constant up and down in our society is still causing advancement in society. In the end, ultimately we should end up in Modern Life better than we had been in the past. That is if you were measuring how something is better by the economic situation. This shows that you really have to classify what you mean by better. Are you asking better as in economic growth or as in better in something else? In my personal perspective, modern life may not always be better but it is constantly working towards in the end being better than when it started off in the past.
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