• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    I would not be surprised if that kind of thing tracks across many, if not most, demographics, honestly.

    “When were things better?”

    If one is going to take a very egocentric, myopic, short-term, and provincial of things vs. the kind of view of say, historians, then most people are going to look back at their twenties with mostly rose-colored glasses on.

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      18 hours ago

      When were things better? When I got 15 boners a day, never got hungover, never had to consider my diet or frequency of exercise. Duh.

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      21 hours ago

      Look at old time media.

      Originally, Mary Tyler Moore was supposed to be a divorcee, but the networks decided that was too controversial.

      Star Trek’s original pilot featured Spoke and a female Number One. The networks told the creators to drop one or the other.

      1982 was the first major Hollywood movie where a Black character was never referred to as Black, they were simply allowed to be there like it was normal [An Officer And A Gentleman]

      A lot of people have seen improvements over their lifetimes.