8 Reasons Why Moving Forward is Really Moving Backwards

Today someone told me that she thinks moving forward is really moving backwards.

It’s like the human life cycle.  You start out as a blithering baby, and at 80, you end up as one.

When I was in college, my advisor read me a quote that went something like this:

“The youth today will have no future.  They have no respect for their elders, for society, for the way things should be.”

This is a quote from Socrates during one of those B.C. years. And probably by every parent in the world since then.

Go figure.

So here’s 8 reasons why moving forward is really moving backwards - and why sometimes that might not be so bad.

GOOD REASONS

• More is Less. Keeping up with the Joneses has become spending less than the Joneses.
• Walking is better than taking your car.
• Growing your own food is better than buying it.
• Gas prices are at 2005 levels, and dropping.
• Obama brings back the Clinton Brigade.

BAD REASONS

• We’re in a depression.  Oh, I mean recession. First we couldn’t say the “r” word, now we’re not supposed to say the “d” word.
• Foreign countries own most of the land in America. BAD for us, GOOD for them.
• The modern day health system is a joke. I guess that’s never changed.

Kangaroos only move forward, never backwards.

Go figure.

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