Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2016 5:47:43 GMT 7
So said Harold McMillan in 1957 - speech here.
news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/20/newsid_3728000/3728225.stm
He was right at the time, wrong now. We've never had it so good as we have it now, and that applies to the Western world at least: Ten reasons why:
1. Superlative advances in medical procedures since the 1950's.
2. Cheap international travel.
3. The culture of home ownership - rare in the 50's.
4. The Internet - more information to our fingertips that every library combined in the world.
5. The computer and technological age - from satellite TV to automatic trains, cars - list your own benefits.
6. Food supply has never been better - the variety is sensational.
7. Communication and connectivity - more computing power in your smartphone than powered the Apollo space programme.
8. Conscription has been abolished - world war but a memory, at least for today.
9. Convenience - more goods of all types on your high street than Queen Victoria could ever have dreamed of.
10. Wealth - maybe the most controversial - but cast your mind back to your parents and grandparents, many of whom would never have dreamed of having private pensions, etc - that was for the upper classes, not we proles.
Can you add more?
So why are so many people miserable and fearful?
news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/20/newsid_3728000/3728225.stm
He was right at the time, wrong now. We've never had it so good as we have it now, and that applies to the Western world at least: Ten reasons why:
1. Superlative advances in medical procedures since the 1950's.
2. Cheap international travel.
3. The culture of home ownership - rare in the 50's.
4. The Internet - more information to our fingertips that every library combined in the world.
5. The computer and technological age - from satellite TV to automatic trains, cars - list your own benefits.
6. Food supply has never been better - the variety is sensational.
7. Communication and connectivity - more computing power in your smartphone than powered the Apollo space programme.
8. Conscription has been abolished - world war but a memory, at least for today.
9. Convenience - more goods of all types on your high street than Queen Victoria could ever have dreamed of.
10. Wealth - maybe the most controversial - but cast your mind back to your parents and grandparents, many of whom would never have dreamed of having private pensions, etc - that was for the upper classes, not we proles.
Can you add more?
So why are so many people miserable and fearful?
