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Discomfort with modern technology shapes Gen Z's desire to live in the past (www.nbcnews.com)
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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

There’s nothing wrong with the technology

Glances at the legacy fossil fuel infrastructure

Idk about that.

the general f*ckery that is through everything now I miss my 2400 baud modem that was bigger than my computer and dialing in to a BBS.

A lot of the historical nostalgia is based on biased accounts of past eras.

"I wish I lived in the 80s" is a thing you say when you're not told about the airborne lead fumes or the acid rain. "I wish I lived in the 50s" is said by people who would feel very differently if they were being drafted to the Korean War.

[–] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's nice that they fixed the ozone and acid rain, but now they've gone and walked back what stopped it, so we'll see it again soon enough.

At least in the 80s there was potential for improvement, in spite of the problems, rather than an eternal spiral into oblivion.

We also were still able to rely on legal protections rather than having it all privatized and laws bypassed by T&C.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 25 minutes ago

At least in the 80s there was potential for improvement

We don't talk about the irreconcilable damage inflicted during the earlier industrial era. We don't talk about what modern fossil fuels and plastics replaced.

Nothing about this is eternal. We are no closer to oblivion today than we were during Operation Plumbbob or the Black Plague.

You won't live to see the end. You won't live to see the beginning of the end. You won't even live to see the end of the beginning.

We're all living through a single footstep on an endless road.