John, I appreciate your putting Luger prices and average income into perspective. The concept to which your title refers is even its own thing--the "good old days fallacy". Human nature makes us tend to forget the bitter and remember the better. Thus, someone's waxing romantic about the wonderful lack of air pollution from cars is neglecting to remember that horses have their own special pollutions!
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"... Liberty is the seed and soil, the air and light, the dew and rain of progress, love and joy."-- Robert Greene Ingersoll 1894
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