B.The value of patience, calmness, and resignation to...

Our perspective is one sided and we don't consider the whole of the thing. i.e. many of us would be dead if it were the good old days, simply because of the advances of modern medicine. We tend to view the simplicity as better and leave off the hardship associated with those "simpler" times. The foolishness of this kind of thinking is summed up in 1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. There is no new thing under the sun and all the bad of this day is exactly the same bad of yesteryear and it is repeated throughout history. Things are not any worse in this day than before. We only have a way of putting it into our homes and the hands of our children in an easier fashion