Neither nostalgia nor utopia.
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My era…
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People who did not experience the 1970s pretending the 1980s were the best times.
They really got no idea..
1980s is when it all started going to shit
Simple yet so difficult to understand to young generations who feel the struggle, and yet search for someting else to blame.
That's very accurate and understandable from the younger generations. It's the most obvious thing they can find, the rich and the corporations. They then think the way out is more gov and more centralization... Less government more freedom!
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From that period, the decoupling of the gold standard occurred. From that period, decoupled fiat currency became the norm
After a economic reset (like ww2), capitalism always follows a similar pattern as capital concentrates and concessions the working class fought for when they where on a more equal footing after the war, are slowly rolled back to opress them and lower their wages.
This has literally nothing to do with the gold standard.
Marx discribed the mechanisms behind this like a century before this happened.
tbf, the gap already widened in the 60s
Don't you forget about me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gLVqjIvokc
It's 2025, people exchange concerned looks with each other when they pass in the streets. Speeding up to avoid any confrontation or conversation. Towns and villages are filled with strange people who follow their own culture, instead of engaging with the society around them.
The library is empty, besides a few older women, delicately reading their news paper. Not a youth in sight except myself. No one wants knowledge, they don't want this world.
They opt to live in the binary, blue light shatters their strained and sunken eyes. Socialising goes as far as "how was your weekend?" Lonely. I sat alone by a river, shovelling drugs up my nose to feel something other than absence, only reinforcing toxic ideals.
In a world where we cannot trust ourselves, cannot make real connection with others, our lives run by ads, consumerism, and conformity, what do we have? How do we move forward?
The soul of humanity is dead and I fear it will never return
I can't get over the fact that this is an ai generated video evoking nostalgic feelings about a better reality.
The job we have, to genuinely connect with people however ways we can, to focus on building nice things for others that can outlive us.
There is no better time than the present.