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Things aren't that bad. You make it worse by exaggerating and focusing on the negative--which is what the media does. You are buying into the panic the media is trying to sell you.
In 1984 when I was in highschool some kid ran over his estranged girlfriend and she was drug under his truck for a block. She lived and he went to a home and the newspaper had an article and then life went on. Nobody said "kids are dragging girls under their trucks all the time." We had a murder where some kid shot his parents in about 1985 and the whole town of 13,000 was in mourning and locking their doors--for a week. We had the drugs we could get our hands on and they were everywhere. Think they wouldn't have been in 1958? My dad graduated highschool in 1963 and he did all the same things I did 20 years later. Worse in some cases. I got suspended a few times for fighting or showing up drunk after lunch. Same ashatts, different decade.
I just hate these type of posts that are designed to give you a sinking feeling but are absolutely undocumented and unsubstantiated. The world's different, certainly, but people have been the same for several thousand years.
I'll give you an example of something that's different between now and 1958. In 1958 we were on the verge of sending lots of troops to Vietnam. How did we end up treating those guys? How are we treating our troops now? Which is the more moral era? In 1958 we didn't want any more war, we wanted to be greedy and gather everything up. We had no foreign competition. We were paying bloated salries for our workers to build bad products because we had the world at our feet. Everyone was still in recovery from WW2 blowing their lives flat and we were fat and happy and immoral pigs. In 1958 we had beatniks protesting that lifestyle and they turned into hippies. There were serious problems in the following decade. Campus protests turning into national guardsmen shooting students. The race riots. 1958 was a seriously screwed up period. The Cold War had kids doing nuclear attack drills--which we were still doing when I was a gradeschool kid. When I was a gradeschool kid we were all pretty sure we would be incinerated before we grew up. Nobody worries about that anymore.
And inspite of popular opinion, gun control laws have been rolling back, not forward. The assualt weapon ban and magazine bans have expired. The states have largely opened up their right to carry laws. That you can't leave your gun hanging in the window of your truck at school. I mean, is that a good idea? I never saw that. I've seen the racks, but who has actually left a gun in there? I carry my gun in my pocket everywhere that the law allows. I couldn't do that 15 years ago.
There's bumps, but the world's getting better every decade.
In 1984 when I was in highschool some kid ran over his estranged girlfriend and she was drug under his truck for a block. She lived and he went to a home and the newspaper had an article and then life went on. Nobody said "kids are dragging girls under their trucks all the time." We had a murder where some kid shot his parents in about 1985 and the whole town of 13,000 was in mourning and locking their doors--for a week. We had the drugs we could get our hands on and they were everywhere. Think they wouldn't have been in 1958? My dad graduated highschool in 1963 and he did all the same things I did 20 years later. Worse in some cases. I got suspended a few times for fighting or showing up drunk after lunch. Same ashatts, different decade.
I just hate these type of posts that are designed to give you a sinking feeling but are absolutely undocumented and unsubstantiated. The world's different, certainly, but people have been the same for several thousand years.
I'll give you an example of something that's different between now and 1958. In 1958 we were on the verge of sending lots of troops to Vietnam. How did we end up treating those guys? How are we treating our troops now? Which is the more moral era? In 1958 we didn't want any more war, we wanted to be greedy and gather everything up. We had no foreign competition. We were paying bloated salries for our workers to build bad products because we had the world at our feet. Everyone was still in recovery from WW2 blowing their lives flat and we were fat and happy and immoral pigs. In 1958 we had beatniks protesting that lifestyle and they turned into hippies. There were serious problems in the following decade. Campus protests turning into national guardsmen shooting students. The race riots. 1958 was a seriously screwed up period. The Cold War had kids doing nuclear attack drills--which we were still doing when I was a gradeschool kid. When I was a gradeschool kid we were all pretty sure we would be incinerated before we grew up. Nobody worries about that anymore.
And inspite of popular opinion, gun control laws have been rolling back, not forward. The assualt weapon ban and magazine bans have expired. The states have largely opened up their right to carry laws. That you can't leave your gun hanging in the window of your truck at school. I mean, is that a good idea? I never saw that. I've seen the racks, but who has actually left a gun in there? I carry my gun in my pocket everywhere that the law allows. I couldn't do that 15 years ago.
There's bumps, but the world's getting better every decade.
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