Adios Ringling Brothers circus

I'm not sad about the circus ending in the least. Their treatment of animals and in the past humans as "freak shows" has always been deeply troubling to me. Sure you can say that the controversial acts ended in the past but they lasted much too long. 

When something has ended people often get feelings of nostalgia that aren't appropriate. Like I've mentioned many times we over romanticize the good while ignoring the bad. We also love to blame the upcoming generation even though they are not responsible for all the problems and issues of the world they inhabit. It's not just the fault of millennials and their short attention span that the circus is no more. To the best of my recollection it wasn't wildly popular with my generation either. Like failing retail stores-if everyone was so nostalgic for it why didn't they support it with their personal pocketbooks so it wouldn't go out of business in the first place? 

The circus has gone the way of mumblety-peg. It's from a different era.