re: Stuff I learned in Elementary School in the 70s

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For those of you who weren’t in elementary school in the seventies, do things just seem worse now bc I’m no longer a child?I just cannot for the life of me figure out what we have to be so pissed off about. We had record economic prosperity. And had basically gotten our asses out of all foreign wars, except Afghanistan. And we were almost out of that one.

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By pretty much every measure possible, there has been no better time to be alive in this history of the world than the last 10-20 years in the US. Hell, really, other than a couple of brief hiccups, the last 35.

Our "poor" are the fricking envy of about 4 Billion people on the planet. Our lives are absurdly easy compared to anything in history. We pretty much DEFINE the concept of 1st world problems.

Which, oddly, is exactly why everyone is fricking upset. Have you ever met a child who gets pretty much everything he wants, but not QUITE everything? He's an insufferable arse, isn't he?

Welp, let me introduce you to America. A nation of petulant children who have largely gotten all they asked for, so, now they want to burn the fricking place down because they didn't get EVERYTHING.