Those times were better I'm sure. Based on previous conversations I'm quite a bit younger than you and still during my school days things were noticeably better than they are now. But the rot has been there since before any of us were born. The latest possible date you could pin it at is 1913 when the central banks took over. We look back at where we were as the good times but the reality is they were very much degraded as well, we compare it only to what we have now, but we don't compare it to how things should be. How things were then allowed things to get how they are now. The rot must now take its course. However it ends is up to all of us. Unless these are the actual end times of course and then it is all up to God