I couldn’t agree with you more on the Coke. Plus the Coke in the old days used real cane sugar instead of the corn syrup they use today. The old-fashioned Coke left your mouth feeling clean, the corn syrup one just leaves your mouth sticky at the roof of your mouth. I think all these “improvements” have made it so that life doesn’t mean as much to people. It’s kind of hard to explain what’s on my mind, but I’ll dish out a few examples. I didn’t live in those “old days”, but I know what they were like from talks with my father. Life was certainly harder in some ways in the old days, but people still lived because it was worth living. Indeed there were fewer suicides then there was today. Plus, we cared a lot about how we were perceived in public. This can go either ways, but I like to go the old-fashioned way. For example, when we didn’t have computers, we communicated by telephone or by writing letters. Compare the letters that the people in the past have written to each other to the emails you see in most people’s inboxes from their friends. The letters written by hand are generally well written and utilized proper grammar. It was almost like a work of art, even short letters. It was also worth reading. Nowadays, with communications so instant, stuff like IMs and emails don’t sport those characteristics. They are usually short written in haste, well you know what I mean. We also dressed more formally in the past. When we were out in a restaurant or going grocery shopping, even in the house, we dressed formally to look good for ourselves, not other people. One last thing I have to say is that our attention span back in the old days was much longer than the average attention span people have today.

Wow, I’m posting this like a year after this entry was written. Hehe. I hope this still gets read.

I think you’re right on with these, although it would be hard to make me go back to a non-digital camera. I do take the time to compose proper photos, only because it’s such a ‘chore’ to go and delete all the bad pictures.

Luckily, there are glass Coke bottles in many countries still. I had one this afternoon!
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Human beings–much better as children, before as adults we try to be better.

Sex–much better before people try to make it better.
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I’m a great fan of Coke and I certainly agree with you that Coke does taste better from a glass bottle. Too bad it’s no longer available in the stores and eateries in Singapore. It’s still available in Hong Kong so whenever I travel there, I’ll drink it to my heart’s content!

Cheers~

Mark

I agree with the organizer thing too. I prefer pen and paper to keep track of my notes.
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Coke was also better when it contained sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup. Sugar is not great, but HFCS is far worse. (Now they are finding out that it releases a dangerous chemical after reaching about 120 F.) Unfortunately, it is also in cereals, breads, snack foods, ketchup, and many prepared foods. The increase in childhood obesity and Type 2 diabetes is being attributed to HFCS, because it is harder for the pancreas to deal with than sugar.

I disagree with the poster that said our food is getting better. With additives like HFCS & MSG; genetically modified corn, soy, and other grains; and the depletion of the soil the food is grown in, I’m afraid we are in trouble. It is harder and harder to find good food, and the price of organic food is prohibitive.

I have to disagree with the camera one though. My digital camera has saved me so much time and I do discard crappy shots and touch up some with photoshop.

Thanks for the interesting post.
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