It's very true that a cross-section of people from every generation tends to look back at their "good ole days" through rose-colored glasses.

To get the full context, we need to study history as a spectrum.

I'm trying to do this in my "Jigsaw Gens" series, the first edition of which I'd released on Medium earlier this month:

https://medium.com/illumination/hemingrebels-a-legacy-of-gaiety-opulence-8c75f921e4b