The Changing Times
Not long ago I saw a list of comments made in the year 1955 which serves to demonstrate just how far we have come. Here are some of them:
“I’ll tell you one thing, If things keep going the way they are it’s going to be impossible to buy a week’s groceries for $20.00”
“Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won’t be long before $2000.00 will only buy a used one.”
“If cigarettes keep going up in price, I’m going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous.”
“Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?”
“If they raise the minimum wage to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.”
“When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we’d be better off leaving the car in the garage.”
“I’m afraid to send my kids to the movies any more . . . Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying ‘Damn’ in Gone with the Wind, it seems every new movie has either ‘hell’ or ‘damn’ in it.”
“I read the other day where some scientist thinks it’s possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call ‘astronauts’ preparing for it down in Texas.”
“Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn’t surprise me if someday they’ll be making more than the President.”
“I never thought I’d see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now.”
“It’s too bad things are so tough nowadays . . . I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet.”
“It won’t be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work.”
“I’m afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business.”
“Thank goodness I won’t live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. It sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to congress.”
“The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on.”
“There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend, it costs nearly $15.00 a night to stay in a hotel.”
“No one can afford to be sick anymore, at $35.00 a day in the hospital it’s too rich for my blood.”
“If they think I’ll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it.”
Times do change. Sadly, the expectations and norms about prices are the least of our concerns. The rapid decline in morality is what is really hurting us. If people in 1955 had been told that some states were allowing homosexual marriage, that babies could be legally aborted, that pornography would be a billion dollar per year business, that language in movies and on television would be what it is, that people would be living together apart from marriage, etc. they would have been appalled. One has to wonder what the culture will look like in another 55 years in the year 2065, if the Lord has not returned? Kind of scary to even think about it!
In Christ,
Pastor Allen Raynor