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"it wasn't better back then, you were just younger" - unknown internet pundit

WXLCKNO 3y ago
In my city for a national holiday we used to have an absolute massive unrestricted party everywhere uptown. You'd wake up in a tree somewhere and everyone was friendly as hell. Volunteers would pick up afterwards. Then a new mayor came in and ruined it all, locked it down, limited the area and basically killed the spirit of it. I was younger sure but it was so much better. Applies to lots of things that get ruined.
- Scoundreller 3y ago
  since it's not a thing anymore, can you share which city?
aaron695 3y ago
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ulizzle 3y ago
They actually were better back then which is what drives people crazy. I think it’s because the older generations (us) didn’t put any value in tradition, so we weren’t able to preserve ours.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y ago
  Your logic requires, it seems, that things have been getting worse for ever. Or is there some point where you think cohort "value in tradition" was different?
  - sidlls 3y ago
    How do you infer such a generalization when the OP was referring to something very specific? It's possible for them to believe that the techno/rave/DJ scene is worse now, and that other similar culture/social activities done now are not.
shiroiuma 3y ago
I really hate this meme. A lot of things really were better in the past. Website user interfaces are a big example here. Conversely, some other things are much better now; cigarette smoking rates are a big example.
- spacemadness 3y ago
  It does seem to imply that nothing ever changes culturally which is of course false. That said, fellow olds do often seem to put on the rose tinted glasses for anything that happened in their youth so it’s a good reminder all the same.
makeitshine 3y ago
Which is why I specified for older people who lived through the early scene. Kids today will create their own unique scenes while others will milk the nostalgia of past ones.
Animats 3y ago
Well, yes. SF had many more fun venues when SOMA was underutilized industrial real estate available to promoters and artists. A counterculture needs cheap space. A promoter friend told me after the first dot-com crash that half the twentysomethings had left SF and the other half were working their butts off to survive.

In my city for a national holiday we used to have an absolute massive unrestricted party everywhere uptown. You'd wake up in a tree somewhere and everyone was friendly as hell. Volunteers would pick up afterwards. Then a new mayor came in and ruined it all, locked it down, limited the area and basically killed the spirit of it. I was younger sure but it was so much better. Applies to lots of things that get ruined.

Scoundreller 3y ago
since it's not a thing anymore, can you share which city?

aaron695 3y ago

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ulizzle 3y ago

They actually were better back then which is what drives people crazy. I think it’s because the older generations (us) didn’t put any value in tradition, so we weren’t able to preserve ours.

PaulDavisThe1st 3y ago
Your logic requires, it seems, that things have been getting worse for ever. Or is there some point where you think cohort "value in tradition" was different?
- sidlls 3y ago
  How do you infer such a generalization when the OP was referring to something very specific? It's possible for them to believe that the techno/rave/DJ scene is worse now, and that other similar culture/social activities done now are not.

shiroiuma 3y ago

I really hate this meme. A lot of things really were better in the past. Website user interfaces are a big example here. Conversely, some other things are much better now; cigarette smoking rates are a big example.

spacemadness 3y ago
It does seem to imply that nothing ever changes culturally which is of course false. That said, fellow olds do often seem to put on the rose tinted glasses for anything that happened in their youth so it’s a good reminder all the same.

makeitshine 3y ago

Which is why I specified for older people who lived through the early scene. Kids today will create their own unique scenes while others will milk the nostalgia of past ones.

Animats 3y ago

Well, yes. SF had many more fun venues when SOMA was underutilized industrial real estate available to promoters and artists. A counterculture needs cheap space. A promoter friend told me after the first dot-com crash that half the twentysomethings had left SF and the other half were working their butts off to survive.