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Honestly I'm sick of living in interesting times, experiencing "once in a generation" financial crashes, or having to essentially helplessly watch a genocide take place in real time. I would have loved for us to live in a boring time where nobody would remember us outside a specific niche of archaeologists
Future landfill miners will remember us fondly for the hoards of resources we are leaving them.
Back when I was a kid the most interesting thing that happened in politics is that Dan Quail misspelled potato, and that was followed years later by the Republicans throwing a fit over Bill Clinton getting a B.J.. We were always able to discuss politics with people who had different ideas until after Limbaugh, and later Hannity talked a bunch of people over the brink. Even after that, it was only the crazies that you couldn't talk to. The internet made things worse, but it didn't get really bad until smart phones and Facebook gave every idiot on the planet an equal platform from which to speak from.
if we were living in boring time social rule would be so strict that nobody deviated from it, and while things would be nice, it would also simultaneously suck because that's something that you simply have to live with without having anything to do about it.
1950s america is romanticized, but men were over worked and often excluded from doing more interesting things throughout daily life, where as women were stuck in the homes dealing with homework unable to own their own bank accounts independently from a man. Minorities were one of the things of all time.
While the economy might suck, and the global climate might suck (remember, the 1950s was literally leading up to the cold war) it's really not that bad, considering how much freedom we do have actively accessible to us. You for example, can sit here and shitpost about it, and i for example can make this post.
I think we are talking "boring" from an outside perspective.
The 1950s saw the Korean war, the Algerian war for Independence (where France mass murdered hundred thousand of civilians), we saw the end of the first Indochina War and the beginning of the Vietnam War, we saw the revolution in Cuba, we saw the first hydrogen bombs, the soviet Luna 2 was the first spacecraft to land on the moon, the cold war really picked up, NASA and CERN were established, the polio vaccine was invented, and so on.
The 1950s were far from boring for the world outside the US picked fence.
this is another good point actually, there were a good few conflicts in the time, both and numerous economic failures and recessions as well.
The 50's were probably great for kids born into middle class American households. But the adults of the 50's had just endured the worst war the world had ever seen, so I'm sure there were a lot of unresolved emotional issues for men and women alike, that were buried under alcohol and clouds of tobacco.
And they used those unresolved emotional issues to abuse their children physically and psychologically. Which is why the boomers are the way they are.
yeah, and likewise, the social cohesion and strictness that i mentioned.
I’d be fine with it if we could get some good “once in a lifetime” events occasionally. I’m in my 30s and pretty much every single one has been bad so far.
We've seen remarkable progress throughout our lives, both technologically, and socially. It's just that those things become mundane after a while and you don't remember how amazing they were when they happened.
Financial crisis are decade based
70s,80s,90s,00 I guess we got lucky and pushed it to 2020