(This isn’t a massive “you, you fuckheads!” moment. This is me too. I grew up in NY in the 80s and despite it being just fucking awful, I look on the Cold War with nostalgia)
i mean the classic folks tend to refer to are those john huges pieces of crap (except for some kind of wonderful)...(48 hours was better than beverly hills cops anyway ;) )
I guess the 80s was a nice time for macho action films?
I've been saying this since Trump came down the escalator & proclaimed he was gonna make America great again. He was talking about the 50's, when he was a kid. What he saw was, white MEN ran everything, women were in the kitchen, & minorities "knew their place."
'The Atlantic: In Czechoslovakia,days after Soviet invasion 1968, Večerní Praha published “10 commandments”: “When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU: 1. Don’t know 2. Don’t care 3. Don’t tell 4. Don’t have 5. Don’t know how to 6. Don’t give 7. Can’t do 8. Don’t sell 9. Don’t show 10. Do nothing.”'
Man, back in the good old days... everyone was so TALL! And the food was free and people made it for me. And my house was free, and all my clothes were free too. It was AMAZING!
My brother loaned me a book.
The Good Old Days-
THEY WERE TERRIBLE.
It was great.
Traffic? Hate it? Imagine getting stuck next to a brewery wagon, and one of the horses lets loose.
Ya, we gotta walk here, buddy.
Strangely nobody yearns for the era's 70% top tax rate 🤔
Government used to be able to pay for stuff when it taxed appropriately. It seems they don't realise that either.
I kind of miss the days of 2007 because my 7yo brain still hadn't figured out the horrors of existence yet and only wanted to play games on the Wii and roleplay Pokemon on the school playground
(god i'm so glad I don't remember the post 9/11 decade very well, it was a fucking mess apparently)
Too stupid or way too young. So many of the people I know who invoke “way back when” - are referring to when they were kids. Dudes… you were 10. Of Course it was great for YOU back then.
I agree. On the other hand, when I was a kid, we had Queen Elizabeth, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and Prime Minister Golda Meir.
But the US today still can't elect a woman as president.
No rn is Hell, because one group is trying to turn the clock back 50 years to when they lorded over women and minorities, one group wants to create a Christian theocracy, one group wants everyone who can't work to die instead of having the social safety net, and one group wants to ruin the US & NATO
... but you and me. We lived free. We had control over our bodies and our reproductive choices, we had credit, bank accounts, the right to say No (even to our husbands,) the right to a college education...FREEDOM (came in your 20's? my 17.) But I'll never forget being born property.
totally. and also WE WERE YOUNGER. everyone who looks back, is looking back to a time when they were YOUNGER and DUMBER -- and those definitely were the good ole days.
Actually I long for them because we had privacy, no intrusive advertising or smartphones to track us everywhere, and a hell of a lot more personal freedom
The only thing I'd miss is the advances since then in medical care
"The good old days were good for but the privileged few. For the farmer, the laborer, the average breadwinner, life was an unremitting hardship. This segment of the populace was exploited or lived in the shadow of total neglect."
by Otto Bettman
The "good old days" were 18% interest rates, race riots, nuclear armageddon, the rise of the militant Islamic state and Iranian hostages, AIDS, inflation, skyrocketing gas prices, disco, and the War on Drugs.
I had that conversation with a religious woman who was born in Russia who was Russian orthodox. She actually yearned for a government that took care of her and dictated her life. There was no way I could have a productive conversation with her🤷🏻♀️. Her life experience was so different.
When was America great? When it had slavery? When it killed off native Americans? When women couldn’t vote? During segregation? What golden age are you nostalgic for?
Right, and protected by privilege. “The wonderful 1940s, 50s era! Bring it back!” … meaning segregation? Before the Civil Rights struggles? Bring back Jim Crow?
Online nostalgia is really weird because it makes the implicit assumption that you'll never encounter anyone that lived through it with any degree of awareness, which is generally not how that stuff works off it!
As 70 year old woman I couldn't agree more. Growing up men ruled it all. As a female the ONLY expectations anyone, at home or school, had for me was to find a guy, get married and have kids. Back then a girl couldn't take an auto shop or woodworking class. It was against the rules.
That may seem like a small thing but it affected entire generations of women. Who knows what some of my female contemporaries might have accomplished had they had the opportunity. But the other things mattered too. Like civil rights, the aversion to ANYTHING not white, not 'normal' per society.
Complacently living your life staying in your bubble, not realizing that democracy was in trouble. Focus on sports, pop culture and building your image, while not paying attention to the direction the world is pitched in. When the majority stood up and cried foul, you gave your vote with a hmbl bow.
Most see the "good ol' days" as further back. Way further back. Like before the Civil War days, but without the dysentery and cholera. Hopefully anyway.
Then again y'all do have RFKJr hacking away at your health care like a parasite so there is that.
I mean, measles has made a return, right?
Been saying that for years. I was born in 63. The good old days weren't all that fantastic. We had good times but humans have always had selective memory recall.
My impression is that around the mid-70s, there was a window of opportunity during which marginalized people took advantage of their newly acquired rights while the reactionaries were punch-drunk. If any recent period of US history deserves to be called “the good old days,” this is probably it.
I remember the day I became less stupid. Junior year. 1977. Delivering passes for the office. Couldn't find a room It was in the vocational wing, where I'd never been. Half the kids there were Black. In the rest of the school--hardly any Black kids. Also--shocker--no Black guidance counselors.
Also, you suffer a psychological pathology in which you cannot appreciate and grasp all the beauty and bounty that surrounds all of us in every moment. Your mind is not where it should be, in the present, where there are still hope and possibilities.
They want a return to the 50s when women stayed home, took care of the kids and the husband, cooked, cleaned, sewed, & were submissive. Gays were in the closet, and there was still segregation. THAT’S what they want. A white male dominated world.
What they really long for is their socialist lifestyle. They had no mouths to feed, clothe, and shelter. Everything just appeared in front of them when they needed/wanted it. They didn’t have to think.
They were good old days because we were young! I was born in 1955. Politically and economically the 70s were shit but I wasn't aware. I was too busy having a great time!!
I get your gist, but it’s a bit of an oversimplification. No excuse for not knowing NOW, but at the time if you were young, it was pre-internet, & you saw pop culture including minorities, different sexual orientations, etc you can be forgiven for thinking we were genuinely making progress.
I was young, stupid, and had no responsibilities. Looking back I’m sure the 80s sucked for adults just like every time line sucks for adults because we are aware and have responsibilities 😩
I read history that happened during my lifetime as I was too self absorbed at the time it was happening. Not sure knowing how much trouble we are in now is wise. Getting old presents difficult choices. I miss oblivion at times
Most of these fuckers are longing for the TV shows they imagined were real life. Like the Andy Griffith Show which seems to have infected a lot of folks here in the US.
The amount of people in the UK that have an imagined idyllic version of 1950s post war UK is insane, especially when people who were born in the 50s or even 60s have nostalgia for a time they never experienced.
I'll add that we simply weren't educated on the worlds' issues in our youth. Our world was very small, especially if you grew up before the internet. Unless you had a particularly abusive household, grew up in poverty, or some other dysfunctional life, things were great "generally speaking".
My “good old days” were during the Vietnam War, which was as vile an example of mass murder as anything happening in Ukraine, Gaza, or elsewhere. And JFK, RFK, and MLK were assassinated over a 5 year span, essentially shutting down progressive politics.
I fully feel this describes me, too. I believed in the propaganda that things were fair and just and if you were struggling, you must be doing something wrong. Now I'm seeing that #taxwealthnotwork is the way.
Because they are afraid of change. It scares them losing any ounce of the control they have over others. They do not believe in free will. Humans are the only species with it and it scares them not to control it.
I think what they do understand is that in their idealized "good old days", white people could kill minorities with impunity and didn't have to listen to any "sass". They're filthy racists who want harm to come to anyone not like them and they couch it in "economic anxiety".
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I guess the 80s was a nice time for macho action films?
Why can't we go back to that?
The other day I got lost on Wikipedia. Now I’m wondering if there was ever a time when there weren’t many concurrent genocides.
I’m disappointed in humans.
We say, "back in the good old days" ALL the time and for just decades ago, and we are older adults that know (have seen 6 decades).
It means it will never get better, as it was always better in the past, and RIGHT NOW, that past was just THREE MONTHS AGO.
The Good Old Days-
THEY WERE TERRIBLE.
It was great.
Traffic? Hate it? Imagine getting stuck next to a brewery wagon, and one of the horses lets loose.
Ya, we gotta walk here, buddy.
Government used to be able to pay for stuff when it taxed appropriately. It seems they don't realise that either.
(god i'm so glad I don't remember the post 9/11 decade very well, it was a fucking mess apparently)
-Demonize the other
-Lie like they breathe
-Nostalgia for the past
But the US today still can't elect a woman as president.
The only thing I'd miss is the advances since then in medical care
by Otto Bettman
But thassit
Wait also I would like James Baldwin back pls
And each decade thereafter!
But each one differently!
The "good old days" were 18% interest rates, race riots, nuclear armageddon, the rise of the militant Islamic state and Iranian hostages, AIDS, inflation, skyrocketing gas prices, disco, and the War on Drugs.
Im good in the present, TYVM
Any. At all. None.
The 50s and 60s were the good old days! 🥸
Me: For who? 🤬🤮😈
My parents: 🙄😒🤔😡
He is black.
I was, and my dad was one of the torturers. Literally.
https://bsky.app/profile/oguzean.bsky.social/post/3lllclcaffk2v
If we survive, I agree with it.
Then again y'all do have RFKJr hacking away at your health care like a parasite so there is that.
I mean, measles has made a return, right?
https://wapo.st/41SfkoI
Their slogan could be:
"Make mediocre white men relevant again."
But there have been some good bits since then.
1. Horrific racism
2. A dollar worth 5 times it's current value.
They're related. When the supreme court said you can't be racist any more, republicans started robbing the home office.
And socialists never thought everything would appear in front of them when they needed it.
"good old days" because that's when you were young.
Nostalgia for an age that never existed.
Nostalgia for a past that was never real, only a fantasised about past.
Nostalgia for a hypothetical.
it's all about longing for a fantasy, not a past that ever was.
Here we have nostalgia for a romanticised , never-existed UK .... and it permeates politics through and through esp on the extremities of the right.
I've great nostalgia for the music of the eighties and the nineties ; the songs were great, but the actual minutes and hours were mostly rubbish.
#whenisthegeneralstrike
Start with Caste by Isabel Wilkerson…then we can talk