Germany or the World the same?

" We were well off, otherwise we wouldn't have taken to the streets."
This is an extract from an article Ivo translated for me.

This line. It is rather tremendous, if you think about it. I wish, I can post this to the world.

The author was speaking of the comparison of Germany in 1967 and the present. Somehow I sense a degree of, hum, nostalgia. Originally, I had opposed nostalgia to an extreme, but the more I observed of the society, the more I am nostalgic. It isn't that life in the past was better or anything, since you cannot compare. I, for one, have no interest in returning to the time when women were deprived of their rights. However, I cannot but miss the times when "respect", "discipline", "organization", "authority", etc. were a part of life. When people had sense of morality, when people cared about the world and each other, when people did want too much, just enough. The time before capitalism, the time before materialism, the time before all this insane fantasy about endless worships for money. There are people with money enough to burn, and people dying from starvation. What's wrong with this picture? EVERYTHING.

(Seriously, this world makes me want to attempt to start a cult)... :P

We were well off, otherwise we wouldn't have taken to the streets.

This phrase was put in a part describing the comparison of nowaday and the past. The line before it was "Nowadays, in our times of seeming deprived authority, authority is faceless, she calls herself free market society and intimidates with globalization, she hides behind anonymous "necessities", objective requirements and appears invincible. For nowadays' youngsters it's a lot more difficult than back then." Revolution are so often started by those with the money and the power. They revolutionize without doing too much thinking, and then, changing the world, creates even more people without money and power, without means of survival.

Live it up. This is a phrase more proper for the present society than anything else. We're all trying to survive it, and forgot that we were born to "live a life". Well, we created a society that we called improvement so that we may all become a tiny robot, trying to survive in a sea of "improvements".