If there’s one thing I will always soapbox over, it’s this. The past was NEVER as good as you remember it. In fact, it was probably terrible.
You just weren’t watching the news or hearing about evil shit because you were a kid.
You just weren’t watching the news or hearing about evil shit because you were a kid.
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So, is now a good time to mention that fascists use nostalgia baiting like this as a recruitment tactic?
They try to make the future seem bleak and hopeless, with the only way back to happiness being a return to a past that never was - only what we understood through the eyes of children.
They try to make the future seem bleak and hopeless, with the only way back to happiness being a return to a past that never was - only what we understood through the eyes of children.
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And I had no sense of any of that at the time, because I was a kid.
As a high schooler, I was probably more political than my peers (I read 'Doonesbury' FFS), but it took me decades to really appreciate how evil Saint Ronnie actually was.
Other than that... internet rules!!!
the rest was.... listen, there's a reason so many of us do therapy this century!