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Agree, Internet/bbs, CDs, 3d polygon based games. Programming, excitement for the future.
I think we would be fine even know if we just straight up stopped using all social media
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> Barely any conflict I feel like you might not be paying much attention.
The last century was characterized by two mega wars that killed tens of millions and social changes / revolutions that killed tens of millions as well. This century is off to an AMAZING start. Perhaps unprecedentedly good in world history. And of course before this century, resource scarcity, lack of modern medicine, etc meant a grueling life of farmwork, living in a hovel, and being sent off to random wars. Now peop…
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.
This isn't nostalgia or granpa shouting at clouds, many important things are objectively worse now.
A thought I often have - older millennials and younger Gen X have a unique obligation to fix certain parts of society because we are the youngest generation old enough to remember how to operate in and enjoy a world that wasn't A/B tested into a gray, lifeless background hum.
When you try to highlight how some things could be better by going "backwards", you're accused of wearing rose-tinted glasses, or being out of touch.
The author is in their forties or fifties. They’re forgetting one important thing; they were young and the world was in front of them.
Another issue is it's difficult to explain something to somebody that has no frame of reference of experience of it. He talks of "delayed gratification" a few times. Try explaining how not getting everything you want is good for you to anyone under 40.
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.
Except I was there during phase 1 and 2, and still feel everything's fallen apart. I saw what it was, what it was becoming, and what it's become. This isn't nostalgia or granpa shouting at clouds, many important things are objectively worse now.
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?
A thought I often have - older millennials and younger Gen X have a unique obligation to fix certain parts of society because we are the youngest generation old enough to remember how to operate in and enjoy a world that wasn't A/B tested into a gray, lifeless background hum.
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The author is in their forties or fifties. They’re forgetting one important thing; they were young and the world was in front of them.
Every single 'it was better in the X0s' is actually 'i want a tween/young teenager in the X0s'. Everything else is post hoc rationalization I'm jealous of my kids since they are so much better off in every way
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> Barely any conflict I feel like you might not be paying much attention.
The last century was characterized by two mega wars that killed tens of millions and social changes / revolutions that killed tens of millions as well. This century is off to an AMAZING start. Perhaps unprecedentedly good in world history. And of course before this century, resource scarcity, lack of modern medicine, etc meant a grueling life of farmwork, living in a hovel, and being sent off to random wars. Now peop…
Having medicine is good though. I don't think anyone's arguing that. "Things are worse" doesn't mean "everything is worse"