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Your perception of the best decade is correlated with your age https://today.yougov.com/society/articles/53769-what-are-the...
I've seen a few people point this out in this thread, but, seriously? There's a generation that are going to say the 2020's were the best decade? I think that suggests: 1) Things are getting worse from decade to decade and, 2) If you weren't alive in an earlier decade you don't know how great it was. (Personally, I saw the creek start running with shit when cable TV exploded and at the same time trash AM talk-radio b…
The 90s were shit.
yeah, especially in the post-USSR countries. It was a culture shock to understand that in other parts of the world it was a peak of society
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No not at all. The world is way better off today than at any time in the past. This is objectively true and we can all feel it everyday we don't die of dysentery, sepsis, etc.
how many dysenteries make a nuclear explosion?
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how many dysenteries make a nuclear explosion?
Can you put that in terms I can understand? How many measles outbreaks per vaccine refusals is that?
What can we do about it? Genuinely want to know your thoughts. I'm in agreement with everything he says, but I've struggled to see eye to eye with anyone not in my age group. How can we have a constructive conversation about this, come to a consensus that things are not okay now, and move forward?
How can it be a constructive conversation if you have presupposed the outcome?
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This Douglas Adams quote is still undefeated: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
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Kids these days can't even play outside by themselves, let alone explore alone or be unsupervised miles from home with no adults like we could when I was a kid in the 90s and 2000s. What else can they do other than use social media? The creeping infantilization of the youth has robbed them of any chance for socializing or fun that exists outside of a screen.
Are you sure it's not the other way around? That all of this is happening because of social media, phones, etc?
What can we do about it? Genuinely want to know your thoughts. I'm in agreement with everything he says, but I've struggled to see eye to eye with anyone not in my age group. How can we have a constructive conversation about this, come to a consensus that things are not okay now, and move forward?