The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there. -L.P. Hartley Try watching old movies, something from before WW2. The scripts and the acting

The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there. -L.P. Hartley Try watching old movies, something from before WW2. The scripts and the acting aren't just different because of tech, but because the people are different. The similarities, usually in the vices and not the virtues, are eye opening too. Now that 'drift' from our reality continues all the way into the past, sometimes with violent changes, sometimes more slowly.