History and Loathing of this century.

I must be bold, though rather monotonous and say how much I despise this century already. We aren't even 12 years into it and I'm already wishing with all my soul for a time machine.
Not even as far back as the 90's, we were free from the clutches of the world wide web and of major technology (mostly, at least.) When we got lost from our friends in a mall or parking garage, we couldn't just whip out our iPhones and call them. (And of course, being only 18 years of age, I use the term "we" in reference to people in general, not myself personally.) Children played with jump ropes, board games, chalk, imagination, dolls...Not with web games and iPhone apps.
Going back farther, there is more need of things like the postal service and telegrams. It was necessary for people to learn skills such as farming, sewing, proper writing, knitting, manners, forging, weaving, mechanics, different languages...Things that we have either disregarded or have intrusted to other people. The things that we needed in order to survive are now merely considered "hobbies" and weird ones at that. (Even with all of the knitting revival, I've gotten some disbelieving comments on the fact that I knit. Which makes me weep bitterly in disgust.)

For most of my life I've been taught skills that most school children would never learn. Such as herbal healing, farming, wilderness/urban survival, ect, by my mother. Now that I am of an age to pursue knowledge with more of a passion, I have been learning so many of the skills that have been dropped by this and several generations previous. Even seemingly useless skills (embroidery, for example) are just another connection to history.

And on a note, as I have seen many a comment about this by ignorant people: I do not romanticize history. I know that it was bloody, and harsh. That people died from things that could easily be remedied nowadays. That the majority of people were racist, sexist, close minded, superstitious and the majority were rather stupid. But I honestly don't care. People try to compare the "idiots of the past" to the "progress" that we have made as a people, but that's a lie, isn't it? We are still racist, sexist, close minded, superstitious and stupid. The only thing that has changed is that we have gotten fatter. (That's not to say that there hasn't been a fair amount of progress. But the fact remains that humans don't change. So I'll take the tight corsets, long trips to get across the state, famine, and hard work, thank you very much.