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It's easy to test that proposition.

Wait 30 years and then consider whether 2021 is "the good old way".

I imagine it will be for most people, just like 1969 was "the good old way" for the author of TFA, and 1736 was for Ben Franklin.

It's not that the bullshit was better back then, or even that times have changed, for the better or for the worse. It's just that the way the human mind works, we don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

As time goes by, we still don't see things as they are. We see them as we were.




It's true; my grandchildren will no doubt look back on this decade as "the good old days".

But your "wait 30 years" observation puts you in a different age bracket from me; I'll be dead and gone (or reborn as an ant or something).


Same! That's why we can make these observations.




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