re: A WW2 Brit War Vet realizes that the UK is turning to shiitt

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You know this is happening here also. We aren't as far along but it's coming.

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The majority of my formative years and just barely into adulthood, was during the 1990s.

Then, I had a front row seat watching the kids growing up in the mid-late 2000s into 2010s. It's two completely different fricking worlds, and it's beyond tragic.

The tiny town I grew up in, just a few miles down the road, everyone literally used to leave their doors unlocked and windows open all the time. There was no worry. Everyone looked out for everyone else. All the parents knew all the kids, and we kids ran around and rode our bikes everywhere and just did our own thing all day, and never got in trouble as long as we were home to check in before the streetlights came on. People left their unlocked pickup trucks in their driveway with rifles on a rack in the rear glass, and cigarettes and cash in the cab along with usually a pistol.

Now, in that very same town, they lock everything down tight even when home, because the fricking meth heads watch everything that's going on, and they'll steal literally anything in broad daylight and they just don't care. Kids don't just randomly run around any more because the parents know it's just too dangerous when the tweekers are always looking for new customers and partners.

It is almost soul-breaking to understand that we can and will never go back to the way it used to be. With the internet and cell phones and social media and pop culture, with all the changes these things have wrought, I have witnessed society completely collapse upon itself. There's an old Al Stewart song that pretty well encapsulates exactly what I see happening:

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In the village where I grew up
Nothing seems the same
Still you never see the change from day to day
And no-one notices the customs slip away

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...except I see the change, and I watched the customs slip away. But like the passage of time itself, I was unable to slow or stop it. I guess we'll always have the memories. GenX truly came of age in the last great American era, and I just can't fathom how we'd ever see anything like it again when these days people can't even agree on what a fricking woman is.

/rant.

Good for him.

Hope he enjoys jail for hate speech.