The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise, … tyrannize their teachers… - Socrates (attributed)
Also, the content on Bluesky 50 years ago? Literally never once disappointed.
Bluesky was so much better 50 years ago
One of the all-time episodes of an all-time podcast - Build for Tomorrow (formerly Pessimist’s Archive) - traces back to the points in time that people said were “the good old days” and finds when THEY said were “the good old days.” Repeat. overcast.fm/+AAgOxi0HIXc
We like to say that things were better before. But… when was that, exactly? We go back in time to find out — exploring every moment that people claimed was a golden age, and trying to understand why, ...
Holy shit, 'boyhood really WAS better 50 years ago' in the 1970s? So what, like rickets, TB polio, the great depression, outright racism, working in a mine at 11? Can't beat it.
www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_k... “Farewell, Romance!” the Cave-men said; “With bone well carved he went away, “Flint arms the ignoble arrowhead, “And jasper tips the spear to-day. “Changed are the Gods of Hunt and Dance, “And he with these. Farewell, Romance!”
“Farewell, Romance!” the Cave-men said; “With bone well carved he went away, “Flint arms the ignoble arrowhead, “And jasper tips the spear to-day. “Changed are the Gods of Hunt and Dance, “And he w…
As someone who grew up in the 1970s I can definitevly state that 50 years ago was much worse. Such a dark time...
ALT: a man is dancing on a disco floor in front of a crowd .
Life was so much better when I was 12.
No one wants to work anymore!