The reality of our new era - or - "Thank God I was born when I was born!"

[connda]

Yep.

--Bob Moran, Apr 2025

"The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping. It would essentially be a system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, the slaves would love their servitudes."
-Aldous Huxley

[SunnyinBangrak]

Best days were before mobile phones and the internet. Life was real. Kids these days will never know what freedom was like. 

[save the frogs]

aldous huxley ... wow.

we've reached such a state of desperation that we need aldous huxley to guide us through the dark times.

 

what else are we meant to be doing besides consuming and seeking out entertainment? 

 

 

[connda]

29 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Best days were before mobile phones and the internet. Life was real. Kids these days will never know what freedom was like. 

High tech in our house was getting the first 13 inch colored TV and a six foot extension on the phone receiver seeing that the phone was mounted on the wall.  Granted, I did watch TV back then, Saturday morning cartoons especially, but after that I spent most of my day outside playing with friends, or swimming, fishing, archery, and a whole lot of bike riding.  I put a whole lot of miles on my bicycle as a kid.  Yeah - those were the days.  It was much simpler life and, imho, much more fulfilling.

[Tug]

39 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Best days were before mobile phones and the internet. Life was real. Kids these days will never know what freedom was like. 

I beg to differ many of us remember library’s now we have access to the sum of our knowledge at our fingertips I can comfortably travel half way around the planet in 24 hours seeing renewable energy start to get going advanced technologies advanced medical technology on and on and on in the broader scheme of things there’s much to be optimistic about 

[KhunLA]

3 hours ago, save the frogs said:

aldous huxley ... wow.

we've reached such a state of desperation that we need aldous huxley to guide us through the dark times.

 

what else are we meant to be doing besides consuming and seeking out entertainment? 

Yes, and it seems misery loves company.

 

I'm a half full glass kind of guy, and if lucky, it might overflow.  Always trying to make that happen 😎

[MicroB]

Old people remember the good times, hardly the bad. It's a medical fact, related to how the brain retrieve positivie imagery as it ages.

[FlorC]

23 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Best days were before mobile phones and the internet. Life was real. Kids these days will never know what freedom was like. 

Yes but p0rn was so much harder to get and certainly not free.