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Selective memory.

As we age and our memories fade, our brain tends to wipe out the negative more than the positive. What we are left with is selective memory of better times.

Yeah, it’s not selective memory. It’s a stark difference to the world I lived in growing up and for the majority of my adult life. It’s much more dangerous, angry, violent, trashy, and sketchy, and it’s been gradually going in this direction for some time now. We didn’t have to worry about people shooting people in schools when I was a kid. We didn’t think about conceal carrying, or open carrying. We didn’t have the intolerance for other people’s opinions like we have today. Matter of fact, people didn’t really care all that much. You voted, and that was basically that. It didn’t dominate conversations and alienate people from their circle of friends. We didn’t contend with nut ball drivers everywhere you looked, and honestly, you really didn’t hear people hitting their horns much less laying on their horns at people, probably because we didn’t have cell phones, but there wasn’t this pervasive anger all day long.

Nah, it’s not selective memory. It’s different, much different.

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Posted by SlimTigerSlap

Member since Apr 2022

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Posted on 11/5/23 at 7:51 am to Mike da Tigah

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We didn’t have the intolerance for other people’s opinions like we have today. Matter of fact, people didn’t really care all that much. You voted, and that was basically that. It didn’t dominate conversations and alienate people from their circle of friends.

This is the world you and I and the TD masochists live in ONLY because we seek it. Politics don't dominate conversations outside of social media. And if you are talking about it in the real world, you're probably doing so while watching your favorite goofy opinion news show.

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Posted by Big Scrub TX

Member since Dec 2013

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Posted on 11/5/23 at 11:38 am to Mike da Tigah

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It’s much more dangerous, angry, violent, trashy, and sketchy, and it’s been gradually going in this direction for some time now.

I mean, look - violence has ticked back up in the past few years...but that was from a trough that was WAY below the pretend halcyon years of your nostalgic youth. Go back and look at the stats for, say, 1991.

Go back decades and look at how the mentally ill were treated.

Go back to the 60s for god's sake and look at the shite that was happening.