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When Exactly Were "The Good Old Days"?

Build For Tomorrow

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The Good Old Days Are Just More Ancient Rome

E romans were always just obsessed with earlier romans. So the good old days were just more ancient rome. Professor of sereology at yale university says that at the beginning of humanity's written record, there is really no talk of the past at all. But as they move forward in time, the sentimenthat there might have been times much better than the times people were living becomes stronger. And there it is, as soon as we started telling our own story, we started looking backwards at it with longing.

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