• tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    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

    • mycodesucks@lemmy.world
      7·
      6 days ago

      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.

      • HamFistedVegetarian@feddit.uk
        2·
        5 days ago

        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.

          • HamFistedVegetarian@feddit.uk
            2·
            5 days ago

            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.

            • mycodesucks@lemmy.world
              3·
              5 days ago

              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.