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Schrodinger's nostalgia - life was worse and better depending on the current goals of the speaker.
Had to walk to school, uphill both ways in -40C everyday, all year. Things were better back then.
Both are kinda true. We didn't have all of human knowledge in our pocket at all times, the ability to meet people of the same interests across the planet, and the ability to order pretty much anything we want within the day.
We also could afford a decent living situation, it wasn't a daily struggle to remain thin, and weren't seriously worried about a Christian Nationalism take over.
It is like everything that depended on shared institutions got worse and everything that depended on one individuals or single companies got better.
this was around since the 80s and before.
EDIT : here's a great quote from 94
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater
My high school history teacher idolized Goldwater, but Goldwater would have hated him.
Fun anecdote: The eurozone once came up in discussion and he said that he and one of the hyper-Christian students in our class were going to march down to Washington and warn them about the impending one-world currency and the coming of the end times 🎉🥂🎉
Fine. I wasn't worried about it
Current goals? In my experience, it depends on the speaker's mood. If the person feel sad, they think of a cherrypicked happy moment in the past. Or, having a superiority complex and looking down on younger folks. I have read that the former response provides a natural antidepressant effect when one is feeling sad.