What Happened to the Three Martini Lunch?

Or, why life feels like it sucks more than ever.

For the last two weeks I have been rewatching Mad Men, the television drama about advertising executives in the 1960s. It’s a well-made show, and one that’s made me nostalgic for a time I never lived in. Which is strange, because everyone, truly everyone, in that show is in varying states of misery.