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You realize this has been going on for at least a century, right? At one point we literally confiscated all of the gold by order of government. Whether the over

by 0des 5y ago

You realize this has been going on for at least a century, right? At one point we literally confiscated all of the gold by order of government. Whether the overton window is shifting or not, this stuff has been going on since time immemorial.

imtringued 5y ago
Except in ancient egypt and for a short period when Bracteates were used as currency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracteate#Early_medieval_bracteates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracteate#Early_medieval_bract...
Apocryphon 5y ago
I’m talking about specifically concerns that the youth would have. And the Overton Window does not refer to things getting worse, nor does it mean things were inevitably getting worse for an American audience until living memory. Certainly ‘90s kids can point at a solid decade of optimism, until it all abruptly ended. To children growing up today, this must all feel like a step back compared to those earlier eras. The reference to the end of the gold standard is a complete non sequitur.
- fuzzfactor 5y ago
  Globally shocking threats of all kinds which you are powerless to adequately cope with are well, globally shocking. And some generations are more affected and/or more sensitive, or even more numerous with the shock spread out further. The threat of further shock can have quite a dampening effect. For a great many boomers when they were young men struggling to stay in college before student loans became widespread, otherwise facing being drafted for Vietnam service, it was not as comfortable as people sometimes imagine. Nuclear proliferation was ongoing their whole lives with threats only increasing from a baseline higher than what most living people have had to endure now. It wasn't only the young men who couldn't be so sure anything would be here when 1970 came around. Or if they would reach that milestone themselves regardless. You could just feel that things were going to get worse before they got better. Good catch about the gold standard ending in 1971, of course it wouldn't have been possible if gold hadn't been confiscated in 1933, basically two generations earlier. How did they get away with saying the confiscation was a "continuation" of the gold standard (after the "necessary devaluation of the dollar" was accomplished) anyway? These were both global financial shocks to two different and separate generations each of whose members had various vulnerabilities. A lot of the gloom preceding, then manifesting with, events like this, or worse world wars, has got a lot of similarity to the way some people feel worsening insecurity for the future right now.

by 0des 5y ago

imtringued 5y ago

Except in ancient egypt and for a short period when Bracteates were used as currency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracteate#Early_medieval_bracteates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracteate#Early_medieval_bract...

Apocryphon 5y ago

I’m talking about specifically concerns that the youth would have. And the Overton Window does not refer to things getting worse, nor does it mean things were inevitably getting worse for an American audience until living memory. Certainly ‘90s kids can point at a solid decade of optimism, until it all abruptly ended. To children growing up today, this must all feel like a step back compared to those earlier eras. The reference to the end of the gold standard is a complete non sequitur.

fuzzfactor 5y ago
Globally shocking threats of all kinds which you are powerless to adequately cope with are well, globally shocking. And some generations are more affected and/or more sensitive, or even more numerous with the shock spread out further. The threat of further shock can have quite a dampening effect. For a great many boomers when they were young men struggling to stay in college before student loans became widespread, otherwise facing being drafted for Vietnam service, it was not as comfortable as people sometimes imagine. Nuclear proliferation was ongoing their whole lives with threats only increasing from a baseline higher than what most living people have had to endure now. It wasn't only the young men who couldn't be so sure anything would be here when 1970 came around. Or if they would reach that milestone themselves regardless. You could just feel that things were going to get worse before they got better. Good catch about the gold standard ending in 1971, of course it wouldn't have been possible if gold hadn't been confiscated in 1933, basically two generations earlier. How did they get away with saying the confiscation was a "continuation" of the gold standard (after the "necessary devaluation of the dollar" was accomplished) anyway? These were both global financial shocks to two different and separate generations each of whose members had various vulnerabilities. A lot of the gloom preceding, then manifesting with, events like this, or worse world wars, has got a lot of similarity to the way some people feel worsening insecurity for the future right now.