In the past: Typhoid.
To avoid typhoid (and a number of other diseases) one would drink beer.
Today: water purification and innoculation saves us from typhoid.
Still, a number of people (danes and germans and french) will drink beer and vine like it's cola. Are they primitive? Yes. Do they stick too fondly with things from the past? I mean, they don't need beer or vine, they have proper water, isn't that enough for them?
In the past: communism.
Communism catered to people who were owned, literally, and slaved in a feudal system. This is why that particular system florished in Russia and China - and pretty much all asia.
This system ended up wasting a whole lot of resources and polluting and destroying lands, draining lakes and killing people. 80 million of them.
Today: environmentalism.
It is rising as hippies who don't want to work like to get money from people who do by guilt tripping them into paying even more for their fuel than they already do.
Already people are starving as food is being used to power vehicles.
In the past: You smoked. Even if you did not smoke, others puffed into your face, so you smoked.
Today: Faschism has found a venue to actually save money on healthcare by violently prohibiting something.
In the past: your Buick went from 0-100 in 10 seconds and got 20 liters per 100 klicks at most. It exhaled CO2. Then you hit a telephone pole and broke all your ribs as your whole body impacted on the steering wheel. Your passenger exited through the windshield.
Today: your 5 ton Toyota Landcruiser diesel goes from 0-100 in about a month and gets 20 liters per 100 klicks at best. It gives off all sorts of harmful toxins, but no CO2 - because that stuff is deadly, or so they say. Then you hit the Hoover dam, and it crumbles, drowning you and your passenger.
Past: you went to the airport and flew to somewhere on an airplane.
Present: you go to an airport, have some MacDonalds while waiting in line to be X-rayed, anally probed and finally sent to Guantanamo for having decided to go to Florida for holiday.
Past: kids went outside, got hit by cars, drowned in rivers, broke their legs falling down trees and played with explosives they found at the mine.
present: kids get really fat and have cardiac troubles from sitting in front of playstation all their life.
Past: Pyramid.
Present: Pyramid scam.
Past: Bach. Elvis.
Present: 50 cent. Paris Hilton.
Past: Coca Cola had Cocaine in it.
Present: The public toilet seat has cocaine on it.
Past: you went on a roadtrip, and brought a spare tyre, and an assortment of tools and little bits expected to break on the way.
Present: You go on a roadtrip, and bring a creditcard.
Past: walking the dog.
Present: surfing the web. Your dog is really fat.
Past: there was only old food stored using creepy methods available in winter.
Present: some guy delivers pizza during winter, and it is marginally less warm when he brings it than during summer.
Past: legends.
Present: urban legends.
Past: knights in shining armour.
Present: some sweaty footballers. (those knights didn't have Range Rovers, now did they?)
Past: Michelangelo.
Present: some kid with photoshop.
Past: Your phone was listened in on by everybody on the line, mostly old hags and kids, because they are bored.
Present: The NSA, CIA, FBI and KGB are all tapping your phone, because you are a terrorist.
Past: a terrorist was someone who threw a bomb into a bunch of people.
Present: anyone who does not want to have his phone tapped or his feces weighed by the proper authorities = terrorist.
Past: a good book.
Present: a good videogame.
Past: bedlam.
Present: all those shows where they vote people off the island.
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