Any time I imagine that some past decade must have been simpler times, I think about it a little bit more and realize that it was the height of the cold war, or

Any time I imagine that some past decade must have been simpler times, I think about it a little bit more and realize that it was the height of the cold war, or people were suffering from some disease that now has proper treatment, or it took months to travel to the other side of a continent.