xkcd illustrates something that's always bugged me: the tendency of people to think that today's life (for all values of today) is especially hectic, or hurried, or that its people are especially inconsiderate or dumb or lacking in the virtues of previous eras. Well, Skippy, people in those blessed eras thought the same thing, because people are always the same: hurried, inconsiderate, dumb, and have always lacked the virtues that your grandparents tricked you into thinking everybody once had. People don't change: each era just finds new ways to do what people have always done.