Lessismore I think I know what you mean.
When we were younger, life changed quite slowly from year to year and we had time to catch up. We were not manipulated as we are today by constant advertising on TV, adverts, Internet.
Now things change so rapidly: foods come and go; every year new 'fashion' toys; new gadgets, the latest widget.
Everyone has to buy, buy, buy, filling their homes with 'stuff' in a mad attempt to satisfy a craving for advertised goods.
That's not how I grew up either. The world wasn't run for one purpose - to make a vast profits at any cost, as it is now.
Yes of course businesses always wanted to succeed and survive, even grow but not at the cost and expense of lives lost or ruined as seems normal today. Not at the cost of polluting and raping our earth with absolutely no care at all for the next generations.
I love technology and have had computers since the early 80's, but here again, the incredibly rapid changes in IT have left me breathless.
New cellphone models every year when we all know that a well-made cellphone can easily last a decade or more if we were not all pushed into buying new ones by either a craving to keep up - or the fact they are made NOT to last or be supported by updates, simply so you will be forved to buy the latest model.
And I won't even go into what all that waste is doing.....
Apart from a few ethical companies (thank goodness) there are no morals in the bigger industries (as we saw when the US finance world collapsed) and although they are clever at PR, trying to make us think they care, scratch the surface and we find rapacious greed, rot and inhumane humans.
This is not my familiar world any longer.
I don't long for the past and I admire innovation and change but once $$$$ became the priority and once we threw in our lot with this idea by allowing businesses to manipulated and brainwash us into their way of thinking, 'must have latest/newest/most fashionable' then there was no going back.
Who is now going to return to a simpler, more ethical way of living?
We are already talking about the expense and hassle of Christmas and yet every one of us knows we could change it if we wanted.
But we are too hooked in to what we've been brainwashed to believe is 'necessary'.