Whenever the issues of nostalgia and "good old times" vs. "brave new world" come up, I'm always reminded about comparisons of the way two different wars affected my my part of the world - WW2 in 1940s vs. break-up of Yugoslavia in 1990s.
What happened in 1990s was, by all objective criteria - number of casualties, levels of destruction etc. - puny compared to absolute horror that went on during WW2. Yet, if you compare the way those who endured 1990s still are affected by those events to the way their parents and grandparents handled their lives after 1945, you might find that WW2 was apparently less traumatic.
It does make a certain sense. Life that was shattered in 1990s was significantly better than life that was shattered in 1940s. For example, in most cases someone burning your house in 1940s meant that you would later have to build something new out of mud and wooden branches gathered in the immediate surroundings, unlike today when you would have to spend a fortune on concrete, bricks, power lines, water supply and sewers, building permits, bribe for local officials etc.
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