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That's very common in Eastern Europe, and it's mostly tied to nostalgia, not any rational argument. People liked it better because they were younger, you didn't
by rospaya 9y ago
That's very common in Eastern Europe, and it's mostly tied to nostalgia, not any rational argument. People liked it better because they were younger, you didn't have immigrants, pesky young people and their facebooks.
It's a similar sentiment to brexiteers, who have a vision of some old England that wasn't actually good.
- yorwba 9y agoIt sounds to me like people who don't like immigrants, pesky young people and their facebooks did have it better (in their eyes). Whether something is good or not is not objectively measurable, everyone has their own opinion. It doesn't seem outlandish to me that people who were negatively affected by some change would prefer the way things were before, and I don't think you can say that they are wrong to want things to change back. EDIT: To clarify, I'm not endorsing these viewpoints, I just want to point out that the people who hold them aren't stupid or mistaken about the "good old times", they just have a different definition of "good". So from their perspective, revisionism is perfectly justified.