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It's the blissful ignorance and, most importantly, the lack of existential fear many people are missing. All your basic needs were provided (if you had a safe childhood).
Unfortunately there are way too many bad, powerful people believing that humans require to feel existential fear to be "productive"…
A while back, Michael Moore got a bunch of MAGAs of all ages together and asked one question. "When did America stop being great?"
The ones who were born in the 1930s thought that things started going wrong in the 1950s. the ones born in the 1940s thought it was the 1960s. The ones born in the 1960s thought it was in the 1980s...
I was born in 1982. I think I have a good excuse for thinking America went to shit, oh say, around the end of 2001.
Personally, my 20s sucked. My 30s were much better.
'93 here and I think the passage of the Patriot Act was a pretty important demarcation line, not just for abandonment of due process, but also when all the major networks embraced telling their audience who to hate.
That was how it was before the Vietnam War. The news media disconnected itself from the foreign policy desires of the State Department during the Vietnam War because they actually saw the lies on the ground and reported the facts.
The first Iraq war started the change back to having the news media play lapdog again with "embedded reporters" meaning that the news media couldn't wander by themselves like they did in Vietnam.
So we have shifted back to a news media basically toeing the line for the wishes of the government.
Funny thing. I was living in NYC on 9/11/2001. None of the people I knew thought that the Iraq Invasion was a good idea.
I was born in the mid 90s, and I feel like my experience of things going to shit in the mid 2010s is similarly justified.
Life started to suck when the responsibilities came.
I feel it is less responsibilities and more the societal awareness that comes with them that tends to make the change. When you start paying bills you start dealing directly with greedy corporations, landleeches, and greedy employers, all of whom view you as a commodity rather than a human being.
Life being pay to play, as it has been for a couple hundred years, is where I feel the "downward trend of society" feelings come from.
Decline as the oligarchs siphon money out of the classes.
Years ago, a single factory worker could buy a house, raise a huge family, send a few to college, have a couple of cars, take a nice yearly vacation.
then a couple of kids, and student debt
then a big vacation every couple of years.
Now a single factory worker, if you can still find a factory can just feed themselves and rent a cheap apartment.
So, worsening since the 1930s? Mostly, I'd agree with them.
*30 years. FTFY
Don't do this, please.
*40 years prior
That kid 20 years ago still had the expectations of a better future, of having a nice and fulfilling life. Now, it's clear we're outstretching everything in order to keep things barely afloat, and some form of collapse is inevitable. It's not just people that were kids back then and felt life was better,
it’s the responsibilities and accountability that’s different
Games were constantly improving and fun, pizza was tastier because it was novel (and either not paid by you, or paid by your own hard worked for money (which differs from adult hard worked money due to lack of feeling of achievement)), and oh my god the sugar rush from snacks.
Wanna go back? Order some food you love but you order rarely, pop an energy drink and boot up some new, uncharted game after reserving a whole night to yourself. Yeah, you gonna feel like that kid back then.
Each decade from this kids years tho will translate to an hour of feeling like shit next day tho, no advice there xD
The difference is that now I’m a wage slave
Do some acid it’ll return your mind to kid for a bit
You holding?
Nice try, FBI, nice try
No joke though, as a man in his fifties it's become damn near impossible to find some! I have plenty of shroom connects, but finding anything else is tough. Is the "dark web" really a good place to source such?
I can't speak for currently, but I've had great experiences in the past. I wouldn't know where to begin as far as markets go now though.
Gaming for hours and hours is still fine. :)
I need the self-parenting (adulting?) to enjoy it though. Some things need to be done, can't ignore them - need the feeling that I did something with my time and can't have the pressure of undone tasks.
E: verbosity
When you are a kid, you haven't let life pass you by yet.
The kid was happy, adult is not.
Joy is indeed that impactful
Yeah, but back then no work, no responsibilities, friends not busy all the time...
It's the same flat screen TVs!