We tend to think that our current cultural moment is the worst it has ever been. We tend to think that the past was much better, and things progressively worsen daily. Likewise, we tend to over-romanticize the past and long for the “good ole days.” Eric Metaxas, writing about the English Reformer William Wilberforce, said: We tend “to romanticize the past, to see previous eras as magically halcyon and idyllic, and of no era would this be truer than the …
