@BeefySenpie Yes its like the older people seem to get the more immature they become. Like when i was young,things like Batman comics were aimed at like up to about 15 year olds,now you see guys in their 50s 60s at conventions as if its all real.
Due to my abusive/negligent childhood, I do think resources are better for getting help now for kids. Especially when it comes to mental health stigma and understanding of mental disorders. Granted, I was born in late 1996, 9/11 happened when I was in pre-k. I remember being scared every time I heard an airplane and would go and hide.
I really can't get into "the gold old days" type of argument. By most metrics, globally there is less war, better global healthcare, less poverty, and more democratic societies. Globally, communications and travel are unprecedented. I went to Australia and used my ATM card *from a local credit union* and had no out of network fees. Woot.
We are facing ecotastrophy, which is well within our hands to stave off. We are also facing a rise in global authoritarianism and religious fundamentalism. A crisis in energy we've ignored since the 70's. Global security issues if any of these things go sideways. But they are theoretically within our capability to handle.
I don’t think it’s ever that simple. To my view, some things got better while other things got worse. Now we fight for the progress we’ve made, try to correct the course where we didn’t. Frankly I have little faith that enough people will be sensible enough to pull it off. Those places that were blessed enough to have even a modicum of peace are now drowning in self-righteous outrage. We are poor stewards of our future.
I was a kid back in the '80s and over the decades things change but do not really get better nor worse. Basically they recycle the same fears over and over or even good stuff, they just repackaged and try to pass off as something new. So basically no better nor worse
I feel the world was big and crazy in it's own way, just my perception of it was small, simple and lacking in context. The world wasn't better then. I just didn't know anything beyond what me and friends had planned for the weekend.
@markansas it's all cool, i share your frustrations :) 👍
there is always something crazy and messed up going on in the world. sometimes close to home or far away. But as a kid much of that is out of sight and mind, especially when rice krispie squares are for dessert.
Its like when sports teams like the Washington Redskins change their names. Were any "native Americans" actually offended?Or were they trying to live their lives?
Federal law prohibits obscene, indecent and profane content from being broadcast on the radio or TV. NOW THAT IS BROADCAST TV COURT FREES CABLE TV FOR EXPLICIT PROGRAMS Jun 29, 1996 — According to the new decision, for example, a local cable television provider could not refuse to show a man's genitals in a safe sex video NOW ON CABLE TV it is different.. so the times have changed and people sit there kids in front of the tv as a baby sitter. and guess what .. garbage in becomes garbage out. just my thoughts on the matter..
It's definitely a different place than it was, in many ways a lot better, in many ways a lot worse. By the time I was 10, we'd seen the assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK, hijackings and the Vietnam war in grainy black and white on TV but we'd also seen the Civil Rights Marches, the Moon Landing and Woodstock...
Kind of defines how many things change and how many things don't:
Of course it depends what you mean by better off. Better off economically certainly. Better off culturally, I think not. So I voted no. Interesting debate, though.
its not the same world when I was a kid or when we were kids unfortunately it's much worse and a lot more evil. it used to be where kids could go outside and play with their neighborhood friends and family abd come back safe when it was dark outside and now they can't do anything like that because of all the predators and kidnappers in the world its a much more dangerous place now and more easy for children to disappear
Some people are trying to take it back to the way things were when I was a kid. If they get their way, by the time I die, Jim Crow may be in place again.
