You. No you. Me? Us? Date?

It's odd to me how negatively people seem to look upon the way their children live. Having a job which consists primarily of listening to older people, "These kids don't know how good they have it," or some approximation of such is something I hear on an almost daily basis. I find this strange since, to me, that statement implies progress. Things are better than they used to be, at least on some level. Why is that a bad thing? Shouldn't you want your children to live as good a life as possible?
Is it a form of envy? Are people who say that subconsciously resentful that they didn't get to grow up the way people are now? Is it simply a fear of change? Am I the one who's wrong for being okay with that change? I like to think not, but I don't imagine anyone likes being wrong.
I do try to be more accepting of being incorrect when I learn something that's in opposition to what I think I know, but it can be difficult. I'm sure it doesn't help that the internet makes it so easy to find likeminded people to follow, so unless I actively search out opposing viewpoints, they're rarely presented to me. I suppose that could be considered a point in favor of the aforementioned negativity toward the new, but I think it's really more of an aspect of human nature.
Even without the internet, people tend to flock toward media and social groups that reflect their own worldview. People who watch Fox News tend to look down on and actively avoid CNN/NBC and their viewers with their "liberal agenda" and the latter do the same to the former for the opposite reason. People in small towns and people in large coastal cities tend to have a similar relationship. I have a hard time not writing the stereotypical small town mentality off as simply being driven by an irrational fear of the unfamiliar, which people with the stereotypical city viewpoint don't share as they're more likely to have experience with people from different places.
That said, I think "city" people might have an opinion of "small town" people not dissimilar from that which "small town" people might have of people from foreign countries as being relatively uncivilized. So while I'm more inclined to agree with the "city" viewpoint in that I don't view people from other countries as being all that different from me, I also try to keep from feeling that "small town" people are in any way beneath me.
This whole thing has gotten a bit rambling, which I find odd since I don't feel like I'm particularly opinionated. I guess it's that lack of opinion that gives me so much to say since reading over this again, it's mostly questions and idle speculation on the nature of "old vs. new" and "city vs. small town."
I suppose my point is that, belonging to one side of either dichotomy, it can be difficult to see the merits of the other, but they must be there. If there really was nothing to that opposite side, would people still be sticking to it? Or does it all really just boil down to either being afraid of or overly embracing change?
　
This morning, I weighed ?
　
Yesterday, I ate: ?
　
I've known people who enjoy listening to political radio shows espousing a political ideology opposite theirs, specifically to yell at them about everything they supposedly have wrong. Whether you belong to one side or the other or lie in the middle or off to the side somewhere, it seems so strange to me that someone would enjoy what amounts to getting angry at people they don't like.
So I say this a bit more seriously than usual:
　
Take it easy!