• masterofn001@lemmy.ca
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    Kids playing in the streets.

    Kids having semi autonomy.

    Cheap rent.

    Glass fold food and beverage bottles and jars.

    A middle class.

    Hope.

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        There is always hope, and things have always been quite bad one way or another. You’re looking at the past with rose-tinted glasses, and forgetting how bad it was too

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          Yes, but it’s not that things in the past were perfect, it’s that you could identify a general trend of things getting better. Sure, there were still huge problems, but you could believe it was just problems we hadn’t gotten to yet. Now we live in a world that’s actively going backwards.

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            I get what you mean.

            Personally I am unsure of whether it’s one of two things

            1. Things are getting better now as they were back then but now I am older and more cynical so I don’t accept they really are improving as a whole. Much like many people my age probably did when I was younger.

            2. Things are getting worse and we’re all fucked.

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                Same mate. The jury is still out on that one.

                I think an actual left wing political party as an option would be a bloody good start.

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                  I agree with you, but I’m too old and worn down to do it, and nobody else seems to be in much of a hurry either.

                  I don’t think it’s coming in my lifetime.

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        Paedophiles are no more prevalent now than they were. The fear of paedophiles is through the roof though.