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(a) I didn't say "everywhere", and I wasn't talking about LA. I'm glad you lived somewhere where that wasn't the case. The world is bigger than LA, or than the
by wfunction 9y ago
(a) I didn't say "everywhere", and I wasn't talking about LA. I'm glad you lived somewhere where that wasn't the case. The world is bigger than LA, or than the United States for that matter.
(b) My point was not that the good ol' days were paradise and we're all rotting in hell now. My point was that old people are not necessarily making $h!1 up in drawing comparisons with the good ol' days, in contrast with what the parent said. I thought this was obvious but evidently not.
- snovv_crash 9y agoOf course they're not making shit up, but they do have a selective memory, which was GPs point that you seemed to miss. If things are distributed between bad and good, it doesn't matter how that distribution changes over time if the bad things from the past are forgotten in the comparison. It is still dishonest.
- ygaf 9y agoYou are implying "the bad things from the past" have an objective weight. They could be insignificant, and in someone's eyes the past is truly "good".