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Konnor Drewen

1/25/011

Is modern life "always" better than it was in the past?

            No, modern life is not always better than it was in the past. In some ways modern life is, but in others it is not. The ways it is better is that we have better health and a longer life expectancy. More people now have more money and there is not as large of a poor population as there was. Although these things are true that does not necessarily mean that modern life is always better. For instance we are at the end of the worst recession in history. Now during the recession people would have probably preferred that they lived in a time where there was no recession. Another thing is that in the past if you were thinking of better from an art stand point many people agree that art forms were better in the past. In the past there were artists like Shakespeare writing plays which was a huge turning point in history for drama and theater. For music many people agree that the music from the sixties through the eighties was the music that changed music. The Beatles as an example are to most people the band that changed music entirely. The sound of their music was able to change millions of people’s way of thinking. So to answer the original question: Is modern life "always" better than it was in the past, I would give a definite no because while now we have medical turning points making our physical lives better in the past they had intellectual turning points to make our emotional lives better.