For those say in their 60s or 70s here. When you were in your 30’s or 40’s did you have the feeling that the world was a fucked up place? So much has been going on since I entered adulthood in the early 2000s and I feel like it’s getting more and more intense. It’s never ending.

Is it unique? Or has it always been this way?

  • RedCarCastle@aussie.zone
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    9 hours ago

    Always has been, the big difference is it wasn’t streamed straight into your eyes in real time

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      5 hours ago

      Yep, only in my 50s but this is correct. All the shit under Reagan, Nixon etc, decades of meddling in the middle east before that. A century of oppressing South America. All the labor struggles. It’s like the increase in the diagnosed cases of autism. The number of cases didn’t increase. Only our awareness.

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      7 hours ago

      Yep, you had to get out of bed, and walk a few miles, if you wanted to see public torture and humiliation of others.

      But executions and all that were public events. Not behind closed doors like today.