“Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty. With martial valor, if one becomes like a revengeful ghost and shows great determination, though his head is cut off, he should not die.”

Ghost dog!

bruh

I... Really? A 15 minute Progressive "ha, don't Conservatives know their nostalgia about the past isn't how the past was like" video in which you use as half your conclusion a quote from a book you never read? Good thing you admit it, but that's what's worth 2 videos in 5 months? A 13 minute recap and slight expansion of your Georgism video from 4 years ago and this unoriginal shlock? I've probably seen 4 videos with this very message already. Answer honestly, did you lose your vision? Ok, not every video you make can be a "Bangladesh" or a "Packed in Thailand" or a "Housing Crisis" or a "Graffiti" tier quality, but THIS couldn't have taken more than 3 days script righting, sourcing, recording and editing. I mean it. Do you need an inspiration?

@@masscreationbroadcasts I mean, probably. He'll make a banger video next time, but this is not our christmas present, chief.

I mean that's literally how our brains remember, we mostly remember the happy and the good times in our life

You kids don't realize how bad things really are, you just don't know any better. Back in my day they made clothes that fit, sofas that were easy to get up from, and beds that didn't leave you tired. They've now put something in the water that makes you get up several times to pee in the night. And the tv shows talk about things no one understands!

@@VikingTeddy looking at your profile picture, i would say that couch thing worked in you

@@GhettoGuide-wg7gd Oh, that's me like 8 years ago. Been doing a lot of "bodybuilding" since...

i do like the look of people in the 50s though

Those were the good old days! ;-)

What the hell was your grandma doing back then

​@@BrazenBull001visiting prostitutes

Your grandma has very good memory, not heavily affected by nostalgia

Sounds expensive

People forget how terrible their own childhoods were too. They don't want to remember how it really felt.

Depends on what people miss, for people who like cars, like me- yes they were much less safe, but cars were also much more involving and mechanical in nature something that appeals to people who enjoy the experience of driving… And unlike with clothing it’s difficult to enjoy things like that today because of continuously evolving emissions regulations.

I wish I had never been born in the first place. My mom should've gotten an abortion, but she was too stupid to realize it was better that way.

That is the concept of Heaven - a metaphor for the womb, childhood Religion says we can run back to the past, back to mommy A Nanny God will feed, protect, shelter, care for us and keep us in a nice bubble far, far away from real life and all its harsh realities Our OWN loved ones could be suffering, starving, sick, homeless, caught in a war facing rape, torture but we care no more! No one mentions any work being done in Heaven, no one even asks! An idle, lazy, useless, pointless, uncaring, shameless, cowardly freeloader existence for eternity! God's Grand Plan! It is not just Cons who want to run back to those good old days, we do too!

@@ramaraksha01what did you smoke to come up with that

Dahm! I see feel like "We live in good old day, but tomorrow will be better good old day!"

any criticism of modern life or adoration of a certain aspect of the past is illegitimate because sometimes people in the past did so as well. got it mr Shinji profile picture, i bet a neon genysis enjoyer or whatever it's called is pretty satisfied with his life right no way you'd be depressed🤯

@@coolbutnotverycool1440 Bro calm down, I literally posted another comment somewhat agreeing with you. I do think a lot of things were better in the past, however I also recognize the past wasn't a perfect world. The reason I made this comment was the funny irony that even as far back as in ancient Greece, people were ranting about "the good ol days". The reality is we always see the past as better because we only remember the good things. This is a pretty well-known phenomena. But if it makes you feel any better, I don't think "progress" is always good, there are many things I miss that I wish hadn't changed, and I constantly find myself wishing I could travel back to a few years ago.

@@Kodeb8 you do agree that people that watch that show are usually depressed though right

@@coolbutnotverycool1440 man you autistically fixating on what show he watches and completely disregarding his well written reply is pathetic.

Uh the epic of gilgamesh is mesopotamyan

That is honestly so beautiful. I need to watch that. I appreciate a movie like this!

Everyone who is able to should see it, I found it very educational, since I had heard my grandmother talk about the 1900s and 20s, she was born 1895 and my parents in the 20s, there is a lot I learned about the 1900, 20s, 30s and the beginning of the 40s, there is a lot I remember from when I was 3 y/o, I was born in 1942.

Amen.!

So let me get this straight.., a modern film made a fake version of a real time period, and presented it like it really was the time period and you believed it.

​@@WitchKing-Of-Angmarwere you there?

Why has it been romanticized in the first place? Seriously I can't find ANY form of media where they glorify living in the present.

That's cause you don't watch shows for women. Stuff like sex and the city did glorify the present.

And buy everything that you can't afford.

Yes embrace the present world. Not the world that you used to live in or you'll never adapt (ex: use of technologies)

@@thedesensitizedsympathizer5307 Because nostalgia is like a drug and it's one of the most powerful drugs.

Very true

Humanity has being declining for centuries read about kali yuga

@@user-xf1sm1lv4n So you'd rather live in 1600?

​@@user-xf1sm1lv4nwhy do you sanghis need to bring hinduism everywhere?

Cave people - great!

This observation highlights the timeless nature of nostalgia and our tendency to romanticize the past. Throughout history, people have consistently looked back at earlier periods with a sense of longing or admiration. The reference to the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest known literary works, further emphasizes this point. Nostalgia often arises from a longing for a perceived simplicity, authenticity, or idealized past. Each generation may feel dissatisfied with the present and yearn for what they believe were better times. However, this nostalgic perspective is subjective and often overlooks the complexities and challenges of past eras. It is important to recognize that nostalgia can be both positive and detrimental. While reminiscing about the past can provide a sense of comfort and connection, it can also hinder progress, as it may prevent people from fully embracing the opportunities and advancements of the present. Understanding our tendency towards nostalgia enables us to approach it with a critical mindset. It allows us to appreciate the value of history and tradition while also recognizing the need for growth and adaptation to the ever-changing world.

Many things are indeed better left in the past, but it's also foolish to think we had a linear evolution and there's nothing that we could look back on and try again. I think that's the most moderate view.

@@herr_crustovsky Almost always, the problems of the present were planted firmly by the decisions of the past. For example, TV was made fully commercial and aimed at children by the powers of the '50s. The lower literacy and rise in instant gratification of the '70s should be blamed on those '50s policies, but seldom were.

@@brianarbenz1329 Good example. But there was PBS with Mr. Rogers who really showed the kids good values, a sense of justice and a bit of how to tell truth from fiction (BS advertising, etc.). But overall, you're right and we're all suffering for it.

That is very wise

Hear Hear!🎉

It’s the same thing for Gen Z starting to romanticize 2016 (even if everyone at the time called it “the worst year ever”) because most were in middle school or high school care free and social media wasn’t as toxic and draining

​@@Fluxwux I don't understand it either. I was bullied in school and still miss 2016 for some reason. I don't miss 2015 or 2017 though. Just 2016 for some resson.

@@JF-wp2rz It's because 2016 was the internet's best year. Afterwards, memes grew stale - the first meme of 2017 was somebody toucha my spaghett, falling way short from 2016's memes like dat boi and internet trends like vaporwave reshaping the internet. You had all sorts of KZfaq drama, commentary channels like h3h3 and idubbz were actually good. Trump generated a lot of content, but it everyone found it funny because he was just a candidate at the time. In 2017 he became president and everything started becoming a lot more political. He had become so ingrained in America's and the internet's consciousness that they couldn't detach once he stopped being an amusing private citizen, and it all became so toxic. The next biggest decline in internet quality wouldn't be until the Tumblr exodus of 2018, where the incessant userbase that had been hitherto well-contained burst out into every other forum, saturating content across the web. Then there was 2020 when everyone's brains melted from COVID. Now we're still experiencing the after effects.

*rose TINTED glasses

​@@FluxwuxI thought that 2016 was more toxic than today-

I'm sure there were writings also that advertised and praised the contemporary era bs the previous, devious, outdated.

@@katula14conservatives view history from rose tinted glasses

The Roman empire collapsed relatively soon after those writings. People bring up some Assyrian tablet that said the same stuff and mock, but...last I checked, their empire completely and utterly collapsed long, long ago. Maybe once people stop being optimistic and life makes them pessimistic, it's a sign that a civilization is past its apex. No current world power has had centuries of "it's so over" as a widespread sentiment.

@@thepandaken5475 By "relatively soon" you mean centuries later. Serious decline started in the late 4th century and lasted for about a 100 years. Up until that time, the Roman empire managed to hold and maintain the vast majority of its territorial gains, though there were some serious upheavals before that, like the crisis of the third century, followed by restorative efforts (Aurelian). First century was peak PAX ROMANA, and anybody who complained about that time period probably romanticized the past too much. Those supposed "spoiled and decadent" youths went on to attain the territorial zenith of the empire under Trajan in the early 2nd century, and by the time """decline""" kicked in, they were dead for centuries. So idk, sounds like typical boomer whinging to me.

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That's a good anti-nostalgia story.

I'm happy your grandmother lived to tell the story. I'm getting nauseous hearing boys be live: there are biological differences 🤮

Your grandma must be a feminist. Also, you wouldn't be born if she went to college. So think about it and thank your great granddad.

@@yamataichul Are you stupid? Men are biologically stronger, its a literal fact. Bro its literally taught in health in like around 5th to 7th grade 💀Theres a reason why a extreme majority of frontline roles in militaries are held by men and not women. Theres a reason why most construction workers are men.

My dad had that with his eldest brother. He always got the hand me downs and such clothes toys, bikes etc.. there just the money for his brother to go to university, though my dad got into the grammar schools. There was aways a deep resentment there because of that. To think of people only having the money to invest all in a single oldest male child in hopes they will earn a good wage.

This is just a hit piece on the past. Id rather die of cancer in a factory than die of cancer in a time of great prosperity. Heart disease kills most blacks today. We still, in this “golden age of technology” still have hundreds if not thousands of unavoidable deaths every year. And the population is getting so stupid, we have had to put tide pods behind a glass wall.

With all the clever comments on this video, this one stands out as being relevant and correct. And if I may add, it also depends on the geographical location back then as is now. I remember things in the 80's and early 90's that it would be gold to see them happen again, while others such as the extreme subjugation of women and domestic violence (that was quite rampant and much frequent) that I wouldn't want to see again. It was heart-breaking.

This... it's pretty hard to ignore the fact that people earned significantly more for less work in the 50's. People who came of age in the 1970's talk about paying for entire college degrees with a part-time summer job. Of course younger people are getting fucked.

@@nukeputin420 My dad was from around that point and his job was risking life and limb in a lumber mill at 16, then getting lucky getting into the rock cover band scene and basically living in a station wagon while becoming an alcoholic to fund himself through basic med school classes and going cold turkey to qualify as a paramedic, and regretting to the end of his days that he wasn't there for me from when I was born until I was 7 and he had to retire due to a disability and he had to learn enough law to take people to court for his disability benefits. If my dad hadn't been this brilliant and good at teaching himself, or able to drag himself out of his alcoholism without support, he'd never have made it out of his 20s, and that's if he had the luck of not getting killed at 16 in a sawmill. That whole "earned more for less work" isn't an universal, my dad was still barely living through on odd jobs and gigs until he got his paramedic job that haunted him mentally even when I was a teen and he finally told me he was scared I never knew how much he loved me because he was never home when I was awake. Don't trust the "it was better"-- most people paid for that financial stability with emotional and mental damage.

Some things was better, Lot of things nowadays are better

Really? I grew up in the 90s and always thought and heard the 80s were objectively worse. Sure, it had some interesting esthetics but I think many people saw and still see it as a somewhat dark decade. Although that darkness can also be romanticized.

​@@dojadog4223I grew up in the 2000s, but I always heard the 70s were the darkest days of the second half of the 1900s.

@@taylorphillips7030 I lived through the 1970s, sometimes referred to as "The Decade That Taste Forgot", but I don't remember anyone saying at the time "Wow, we truly are living in the decade that taste forgot".

@kiwitrainguy Aesthetics are one thing, but I was more so thinking of the economic crisis, Vietnam, and Watergate, at least from an American perspective

@@taylorphillips7030 Oh, OK, my mistake. The dark times for me were the early '80s with Reagan and Thatcher threatening to nuke the Soviet Union and start WW3.

Why do you say the culture?

you can't have the culture without the lifestyle, people like to conveniently ignore this

@@Waywind420 Why are you envious of Japanese Culture?

@@TiagoGomez-hb9te Because unlike us they actually have a homeland still.

You would not say that if you saw their crazy work hours and super rigid hierarchy at work. Plus if you are a woman it’s worse because they have a very hush hush attitude towards sexism and sex crimes. This one woman got raped, tried to sue, but faced backlash for ‘stirring up and disturbing peace’.

Oh, come on. You can do better than that. Your description is all BS.

no

💯💯

If you think the 50s were so great, you missed the nuclear drills.

What happened here

Not in Eastern Europe generally

​@@Polska_Editsfair point

​@@Polska_Editsyes, but some from my country still think that life in the 1920/30s was better

@@europa818 Paris in the 1950s had litteral miles of slums people didnt have access to electricity and running water

@@shadowcelica5554 They are just being a thinly veiled racist no need to engage with them

Yeah exactly.

You have cable tv, internet, a phone in your pocket, a microwave, a huge refrigerator, air conditioning. Things that didn't even exist back in the good old days!!!!

@@user-ws1qf7ol4k Air conditioning? I don't have air conditioning.

They also had a 90% graduated tax rate, most of the new housing construction was federally backed. Down payments were pennies compared to today where you have to compete with big money just for a place to rent. What they had is called socialism today, the middle class isn't supported the way it was in the 50s. You can blame Reagan and Nixon for that, along with shipping half of America's manufacturing jobs to China.

i live in a house with family right now. its 4 of us and the house is TOO BIG. im looking at so much space right now that I can physicaly walk across some maps in VRChat with no controler

People like you are literally the centerpiece of the vid

Agree. For my life there was B.I. - before the internet and A.I. - after the internet. Life had become incredibly different and better. After 9/11, things went downhill. 9/11 is both a cause (i.e. the surveillance state which followed) and a marker in time. That also coincided with the contest show _Survivor_ which was wildly popular. People began looking at their lives as a game of Survivor. School friends weren't made out of common interests, chemistry, loyalty, shared experiences, shared values, etc. but with the ulterior motivation: _how can this person help me get ahead in life?_ Co-workers became alliances and contacts to get promotions, other jobs, protection from lay offs, etc. Romantic pursuits became all of the above plus a test of present and future income potential _plus_ a test of fitting into - or moving up social class. Computer advancements during this time made it even more brutal. Everything has become "metricized". Your job application is first read by a computer where everything is turned into a number, weighed, analyzed and likely rejected. Literally inhuman. Your job requires a spectrum of metrics to be achieved. Your co-workers probably know those metrics so they decide if you are "worth" forming an alliance with. Lookism: where metrics are used to analyze a person's physical beauty. Digital dating apps have made it nearly impossible for anyone to get a happy match as all the people ranked a 1 want a 5 and all the 5's want a 10. Metricization has been better for the consumer, in balance. Amazon, RottenTomatoes, Yelp, Consumer Affairs (the ratings of Vanillagiftcard are completely accurate by the way), etc. can be useful. Not perfect thought.

1988-2003 was the sweet spot

Doomerism and nostalgia are understandable reactions to the problems you mentioned. But the mistake we're making is electing demagogues who, in trying to bring back the supposed good times, will send us backward and even make those problems worse. The antidote to this feeling of despair is to find solutions rather than give in to populist nonsense.

For the price of housing, watch his video on housing (The Housing Crisis is the Everything Crisis) to understand why it's so expensive.

Yep, 90s in the UK house prices were 3.5x median annual income, now it's 9 times. Back then people worked full-time for 3-5 years, then bought property big enough for 2 adults and 2-3 children, before the age of 30. Try that now.

@TheOsamaBahama "Actually I'm pretty sure importing infinity migrants into finite space has more to do with that but whatever"

@@TheOsamaBahama TLDR unnecessary restrictions on housing construction that led to housing supply being set far behind demand due to population growth

"No matter how golden an age, there will always be someone complaining that everything looks too yellow." - Randall Jarrell

@@rat_king- That's a good line and it shows a golden age ain't golden for everyone.

@@nathanseper8738 It also can imply, "You will always get complainers, no matter how good it gets."

@@rat_king- Yeah that's true. XD

*It's not about new or old ideas it's about obeying God's word and genuinely turning from your sin to Christ, something most people of all times do not do.*

didja watch the vido?

@@bedro_0 just had to highlight an important point. without affordable housing all your points are moot

@@bedro_0Ya, the guy was wrong on about 90% of the things he said

​@@bedro_0He cherrypicked

"beat the tent cities" if you only look at the housing the higher end of the lower classes could afford sure. People tend to forget the slums people lived in even in those days. Not because they can't afford to even have slums nowadays no. It's because the authorities and police force them to not build such slums.

Truth

It is not a nostalgia that made the things unbearably ugly .

Plastics everywhere, loneliness epidemic, houses are unaffordable for the average person. But but it’s “nostalgia” . Sure buddy.

Yea

@@piccolo5346 Yeah it is. Pretty sure some guy in 1957 had gripes about the modernist movement growing in terms of recent architecture

With me it was the 2000s (I'm older Gen Z, born in '99) until watched video essays and read articles how the 2000s were disrespectful towards women and girls (Britney Spears and other female celebrities) and there was less representation of POC and neurodivergent people like myself and Islamophobia (I'm on the spectrum and a Jamaican-American Muslim).

Covid is a fake virus fabricated by the European union.

​@@user-ks9oj7zo4p😂 The 2000s were OK, it was mainly Indians and Pakistanis who got the brunt of racism back then. The 90s, 80s and 70s were absolutely awesome, on the otherhand. It's all about the kind of person you were. If you are some politically obsessed dweeb using feminism as a coping mechanism for being an incel, then yeah, those eras would suck for you. Every era, actually, kinda sucks for you, in that case. What's the saying? "If you're a loaer today, you'd be a loser yesterday." Something like that.

@@user-ks9oj7zo4p why do you need representation as a neurodivergent? Let's say, now we don't have representation of people with Cerebral palsy anywhere, in movies, games, on TV. What does it really mean to you?

I already want to go back to 2010! not bc of any marriage thing, but bc everything was just normal. No one was looking to be offended, no one was claiming to be a victim (a victim, therefore the world owes them), there was no censorship on social media, we had freedom of speech and opinion. Everything was GREAT! 2000-2018 forever!

She was depressed, no jokes. Not having purpose in life that you believe in with your heart, not understanding why you woke up today. To the point at the end of the video: the big w@r might be coming to West to refresh those old timer feelings. After it went here I don't believe the 3rd WW is not possible anymore. Greetings from Ukraine.

Holy shit I read this before I got to that point. Now I have that was chilling

​@@new-lviv I feel so sorry for her, not only did she not understand what was happening, talking about it was very taboo and people probably told her to just get it over with

Capitalism

And that doean't happen today?

My Grandma is just a couple of years younger than your Great Grandma. She said something very similar but suggested that the "Best" era in America was mid 80s to pre 9/11. Looking back, I'm actually going to agree with her. Pre digital separation but modern enough to have most of what we enjoy today.

im 30s, im exactly thinking the same. But also, this is a stuff that happens in every time, from Babilonia to Rome and nowadays. Every time tech change too much way of living, this nostalgia react happens.

Everybody, you are right. Thank you for the replies. Recently sadly, she passed away. :(

@@Shoelessjoe78 wise grandma. I’d say the latter part of the 90s was the sweet spot (both in Europe and North America) in that we had the convenience of increasingly advanced I.T. and cellphones revolutionised personal communication and of course the internet exploded becoming a global phenomenon ( property was affordable too). People often use 9/11 as a watershed but for me lasting destruction was set in motion by a certain Mark Zuckerberg around 2004/05. Clever guy, genius idea, but (anti) social media and the multiple iterations which followed was the death knell of civil society.

​@@Shoelessjoe78I'm a GenXer, who grew up in the 70s and 80s. I agree with your grandmother. The 80s were the best. It was a wonderful time to grow up and we had enough advances in science and technology to enjoy the era, but not so much as we have today. Seeing what I have in my 50 years, I would still choose to grow up in the 80s. We really had it good.

While that's true, my great grandfather contracted TB at work and brought it home to my lovely great grandmother. He passed after a few years and she passed a year later. This was a few months before my grandfather turned 18. So there he was, getting his HS diploma and no parents cheering him on. He did have a favourite aunt and eventually followed her to the east coast where he met my grandmother. I see many who lived to their 90s and many babies born to 40 something mothers, but you had to make it past all these diseases that we have since eradicated.

No shit Sherlock, it's called acting

Did you know that toby maguire can't actually produce webs from his wrists?

I REQUIRE more videos of those outtakes. That was hilarious. Also, it sounds like they used “son of a b” as more of an interjection swear back then, whereas now we use it more as a name to call someone. Subtle changes in language are so fascinating. It’s also funny to hear them go from their trans-Atlantic accent back to their normal accent

@mariomulder3153@@MaSoNGaMeR115 congrats on missing the point

​@@mariomulder3153yes, of course. But for some of us, especially when it comes to old black and white film, it's hard to remember they're actors, and not the character theyre playing.

Childhood innocence is the greatest rose tainted glasses of all

Since most of the people still alive who lived through the ‘50s were kids back then, this makes sense. Another culprit is the remaining media content at the time, easily accessible on KZfaq, which like today’s media was created to sell things. We’re left with survival bias from the memories of old people’s childhoods and the propaganda of the time.

I think that's coupled with the fact that people were just less generally aware of how bad things could get with some people & kids would be even less aware than the adults.

That’s why we shouldn’t lie to our kids over the world being a good place.

@@mr.x2567 Telling them the truth is worse. Just because something is true doesn't mean it's a good thing to tell kids.

Based

HAHAHA! I think we're all susceptible to it to some degree, but this really shows just how much some people fall into the "What I'm familiar with = the right way" mindset.

We bought our first house in 1975 and it had a very nice bathroom complete with indoor plumbing! Our second house in 1979 had two bathrooms and one en suite shower room. No, we didn’t have a lot of money, all houses were built with indoor plumbing by the 60’s ( in the UK anyway) 😊

Every house in Australia didn't necessarily have inside toilets in the 70's. My grandparents, on both sides, still had outside loos in houses built in the 50's (in Melbourne) back then, as did their neighbours. We moved into a 'new build' in 1974 (in outback Aust) which had an inside toilet, but lots of older houses didn't if the owners couldn't afford to get the work done or just weren't bothered living with what they were used to.

Leon Leyson, the youngest person saved by Oskar Schindler, wrote an autobiography and he moved from a small town called Narewka to Krakow (large city in Poland) because of his dad’s work. It’s funny because the book - The Boy on the Wooden Box - hypes the small town up for values like family and merrymaking as a kid, but you realize how different comfort was when he moves to the city He was astounded by lightbulbs but was gobsmacked by indoor plumbing bc that meant no more cold filthy outhouses

​@@meganhuggins7494what is more profitable to do it? Repair it or tear it down and rebuild it?

That certainly would have been a better conclusion than "life now is superior to everything in the past".

Magnific position

Oh dear, people will never embrace such a logical idea.

​@@Stockbrot_fr tho. This narrator sounds bitter and copious tbh. People were much more sociable back then that's just undeniable

Yep I agree with this!!!

And that's just the part of economy people are aware of. The truth is, the entire asset market is in a humongous bubble. It has a lot to do with 2008 and how it was 'solved' (it wasn't).

@@dojadog4223 but we have more than enough for everyone. Why deprive people of necessities. Because we must serve the almighty dollar?

Peasant didn’t have much luxuries anyway so having disposable doesn’t matter too much except as savings.

Because a priest would go to everyone’s house and hit them with a stick if they weren’t fasting and praying

its apples to oranges, it's a different lifestyle not comparable to ours but that doesn't mean its better or worse necessarily.

I know someone who runs a farm basically solo, it is an almost 24 hour a day job and makes no money

Well some people were not christians before all that many festivities were pagan. I think thats the same thing this video talks about, maybe they seemed very religious but at the core they were as human as we are today

All the degenerates still want antibiotics.

A hay bed and a living father who loves you: heance. the good old days. A good dad trumps a hard life.

@@YoYo-gt5iq yeah sure, he died when she was in her 20s though of an old wound from ww1 that started to bother him again. She said she was away at work and a letter came and told her to return because her father was sick. She said when she returned the puss from his leg was so much it had to be collected bucketwise. Anyway in the end he died pretty young.

There was a series on life in various decades. The most fascinating was 1940s House. They agree to live as people in 4os for 9 weeks. They said it was difficult but brought them closer together.

​@@YoYo-gt5iqnot really

Today are the easiest and most peaceful times in all of human history. We’re simply too soft because of that.

@@puest-uo4lreasiest?? we are literally living in one of the worst recessions how is that easy to you??

​@@puest-uo4lrToday is so easy that nobody is able to afford a home and start a family while working 40 hour weeks.

Compared to the 1950s, income inequity is quite horrible today, (and growing worse). Balance this though, against the lives of women, blacks and homosexuals in those days. Another balancing factor is that cancer was almost always a death sentence in those years. Some things were better, but many things were worse.

@@karenryder6317 i think even a lot of places. In Africa and Asia were better off then, mental health is picking up a lot of cancers slack these days.

@@karenryder6317 so, 15% of black people, 4% of lgbt people having their lives better made other 80% having their life economically much worse? What a great country you guys have built!

​@@happyelephant5384See, this is why the world suck today. People like them are the real reason why people today always says the past was better. Yet i bet you will be labeled as racist homophobic etc by them clowns

@@karenryder6317 I am not a woman, I am not black, and I am not a homosexual. I also do not have cancer or even plan to live past 50. What should I care about these things, if to (marginally) improve someone else's life, mine and most men's is made unfathomably lonely and outright unbearable?

And it was fashionable to refer to you wife as a "ball and chain."

As much as we moved forward I remember some video I seen form the queer kiwi and I can’t believe the thought of the other sex and gender people have this day or that nofap thing I learn about recently when I came across Noan video on it and dear god what wrong with some people I have metals illness and yet these guy and girl are somehow more insane than me

​​@@USSAnimeNCC-Stop lying, it was fringe minority of men that beat their women

@@xRetroWAVEan extremely laughable claim

@@stevenp4597 BritMonkey is literally the definition of "cherry-picking". Yes, prostitution, cursing, pervert movies and other bad things existed in 50s. But guess what? It wasn't that common back then.

The New Left is associated with the 1960s, which was a pretty big shift from the orthodox leftist movements.

Most things were worse

@@yeoldeseawitchtrue

​@@yeoldeseawitchDepends how you see things. There wasn't no cancel culture. Movies and video games where made with love and there weren't made soulsess and to promote some propagate like today. Kids played outside a lot more.

@@yeoldeseawitch not really

@@eduardmanecuta5350 First based comment

Half the world was living under communist rule and the whole planet was recovering from the second world war. If anything the U.S. was one of the better places to live back than.

Keep in mind 50% of the world economy at that time was just the United States. Every other corner of the world was in rags.

Europe was still in tatters.

It is true that in the 1950s, the USA was the best place to live in, period.

Unless you lived in Sweden(plus i guess Norway,Dennmark and Finnland got away quite lightly despite their involvment in the war@@kenlandon6130

Same dude

I will never forgive Bush for doing 9/11 and ending the 90s!

@@EricT01 nah that was his VP

I don't think they are taking request at this moment lol

_vice_

They’re pros at it.

yup

Indeed. As was the music... right up to the 90s😃

@@evertonporter7887 Yep, every decade had a feel. After 2000 it just stops.

Looks are subjective.

It seems they escaped Scrooge at that time

it was the blurst of times

@@eedragonr Indeed, a Christmas carol is c.1843-44 and this book is 1859. Amazing even in that time how much had changed.

Heaven is a metaphor for the womb, childhood A time when we were fed, protected, sheltered, cared for and kept in a bubble away from facing or even seeing the harsh realities of life Religions promise us that we can run back to those happy care-free days! A Nanny God will feed, protect, shelter, care for us and keep us in a nice bubble away from facing or seeing the harsh realities of real life Our OWN loved ones could be starving, sick, homeless, caught in a war facing rape, torture - but we care no more! No one mentions any work being done in Heaven, no one even asks! An idle, lazy, useless, pointless, uncaring, shameless, cowardly freeloader existence for eternity! God's Grand Plan! It is not just these conservatives giving in to these fantasies

That’s probably why the 50s are seen as a golden era, that and I think that kids had more freedom and innocence then. But like with any decade, things back then weren’t so great and are better now.

Exactly we want the good parts of the 1950s with modern values and convenience

@@whatsuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu yes

​@@tuftyterror983no

​@@whatsuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Screw modern values old ones were better

Honestly well put

Honestly, even when REALLY bad stuff happened things still tended to get better over time - Afghanistan has lower child mortality now than Italy in 1957, Lybia is wealthier now than the US in the 1940s, average lifespan still increased during the fall of the Roman Empire. We'll see if climate change bucks that trend. It did when it caused other mass exctintions...

Affordability of housing was far far better in the 80s and 90s than today, with average Joe and Jane being able to buy a property before the age of 30 and big enough for 2 adults and 2 kids. But most things are better now, especially medicine and technology. People don't understand how quickly medicine is progressing. But yeah, housing is a huge issue nowadays.

In most cases? LOL Look at how bad wokism is in the west, "diversity" being pushed onto and into everything. Interbreeding with certain melanated groups that have lower IQ. The complete absences of privacy in your daily life and the substantial disparity between rich and poor. Algorithms that control everything but that are closed source. You zoomer kiddies have absolutely no clue what you are talking about.

​@@Tommyleini Then again, you had interest rates of what? 8%? And the McCareer was also all the rage, having a badly paid minimum wage job and not finding fulfilling work was common back then.

That’s why I don’t see humans as an intelligent species.

I think it's an evolutionary reason, but I'm not a psychologist so I don't know why.

If human can also remember tons of bad things from the past, i doubt said human can move on to be better

Except I remember a time when people weren't using social media as heavily and we were better for it National parks are overrun by self absored assholes that litter the parks just for the instagram shot. So my preference is 2000s style where everything with tech was placed in moderation

@@HackersSun well there are good ways to use iPhones as well, for example going on a walk while listening to audiobooks or long form podcasts. I miss the 2000s the least because wouldn’t want to see bush again

I believe Milton said something similar in Red Dead Redemption 2

​@@svenyboyyt2304 "I believe in society, flaws and all! You people venerate savagry, and you will die, savagely, all of you!"

Then let there be Hell.

"Humans back then where still humans". No shit Sherlock. Let me guess you also believe that the average man was abusing his wife.

A lot of the TV speaking was a holdover from plays. When you're on a stage, you need to speak loud and clearly so everyone can hear you, and a lot of TV actors were play actors before that. Now that we have microphones (or better microphones), actors can just talk like normal people and we can still hear what they are saying. Sound equipment in the past was incredibly shitty, so a person talking in a normal voice might not be picked up properly, or it might not be recorded properly on the media available at the time. When the Beatles were recording music, sound equipment was so primitive that they would physically get closer to the microphone or farther from the microphone to do a fading in or out effect. Now, you just record that on separate tracks then fade them in or out with software. A lot of things in the past seem stupid, but they were doing it because they were trying to get around technical issues or a lack of technology available.

You just have duble standards. People aren't robots. They still speak naturally.

Oh theft happened for sure. Ive heard multiple stories about how the tail lights on the fins of 59 Cadillacs were big targets for thieves. I also read years ago when I lived in Denver, They did a "This day in Denver..." article that recalled a night in 1956 where 3 15 year olds stole a new Chevy coupe, robbed multiple stores, got into a high speed chase through town and then crashed. The crash killed 1 and the driver and other passenger died in the following shootout with police. All teengers were white btw. There was also the story about how in 1957, some rich womans son committed a terrorist attack in order to get his moms inheritance by setting a timed explosive in his moms luggage. Somehow it lasted to the point she boarded the plane and made it just outside of the Denver metro before exploding. Killing everyone on board.

@@joshuakhaos4451 That last one is quite elaborate, surprised it isn’t more well known.

What good is a cheap house if you are hung or have to live with a husband that treats you like a punching bag?

​@@olivercharles2930only because abuse was more common back then doesn't mean it was the norm

@@AsiaMinor12 It might as well have been.

I remember just being a child in the country in Ohio in the 90s. About a mile & a half section of road with all of 8 properties on it & a quarter mile section of woods that crossed a river. The ditches were as deep as I was tall & they were filled twice my height with trash, until someone cleaned it up around the early 2000s. The bridge was covered in graffiti, too.

It's interesting to hear about your first-hand experiences growing up in the 70s. The issue of smog and pollution was indeed a significant concern during that time, especially in heavily industrialized areas like California. Smog days and school closures due to air pollution were not uncommon back then. The use of styrofoam containers by fast food restaurants and littering were also prevalent in that era. Styrofoam was commonly used because of its lightweight and insulating properties, but it posed environmental problems due to its non-biodegradable nature. Littering was a widespread problem not only in Michigan but also in various parts of the country. Fortunately, there has been a gradual shift in public awareness and attitudes towards environmental issues since then. Environmental regulations and campaigns have been instrumental in reducing air pollution, waste generation, and encouraging responsible disposal practices. It is important to continue striving for a cleaner and more sustainable future.

Thinking back decades ago, I do believe there was more litter.

@@PoisonelleMisty4311 this dumbo keeps responding with these chatgpt messages, noone cares what you have to say, shoo

Sounds pretty much like today’s São Paulo. 😂

My Grandma remembers the "Good Old Days" when she fled Poland.

I must keep moving forward

Weirdly, in recent years I lost feeling of nostalgia. I just don't believe there were things better in general that I can't live through again, or if feeling like that has any meaning. It happened before the invasion, but the w4r emphasized it. Greetings from Ukraine.

Because of communism

​@@whiteeye3453 How is communism to blame? Dumb shit. 🤦🏽‍♂️

What if you got seriously ill? It was a certain kiss of death. Be grateful to God you could pass the 50s unscathed 😂

Two can play this game lol Fortunately for you guys, I am a child of the 2000s in Britain. My dad works, my mum is a homemaker. Life is great. We were lower middle class, there are no metal detectors or security in schools. Kids rode bikes and played sports and games. We were always outside, then when we came home we could still talk to out friends online. We could go abroad for holidays. My dad loved my mum, my mum loved my dad, and both loved the 4 children they brought into the world. And most of all, the four of us loved our parents. We lived within our means. By the way, this was in a council estate in Essex. So, it doesn't matter what you may have remembered from the past, but I am an eyewitness. Those of us born in the 2000s had the absolute best childhood in the history of mankind. If you think things were better in the 50s, you have no idea what you are talking about.

And the girls were prettier in the 50's!😮

It may have been great for you, but it was hell for anyone who didn't fit in. Black people, gay people, trans people etc.

@@MrxxVENUSxx unfortunately it wasn't any better for gays or trans up until the early 2010's I remember in the early 2000s when people would go "That's so gay" towards things they didn't like. The murders of Brandon Tena and Matthew Shepard happened during the 90s.

Very few women were actually beaten or abused because normal people ARENT MONSTERS LIKE THE MEDIA WANTS YOU TO THINK

Every minority: 🤮💀🤨

Tbh women had it good in some ways. Why would you not want 50% of the population to treat you like royalty. You did not have to work, did not have to open your own door, had help getting down from things, did not have pay the bills, did not have to drive, did not have to fix anything, did not pay for the dates in a relationship, had a body guard every where you went being most men who where in the area, where not drafted, I mean besides not being able to open a checking account and having too much free time it sounds good to me.

@@bisous101 why dose everyone think that every man is a wife beating pice of crap and that it was acceptable back then.

@@That_1940s_Delinquent hmm I think you have a very screwed and misinterpreted view on the 50s and women’s lives of the past, and in turn, women of today. You watched this video and yet you continue on this way

Yes, I like the ☆aesthetic☆ of some of the old decades. I always feel that it might be fun to visit, but I'd hate to live there!

And literally no one is stopping you from looking that asthetic! If you wanna be a dapper dan with his gal than by gum put on yournsunday shoes and go and do it!

I think if I had to sacrifice car safety features by going back to the way less slobby 50s dress standards, I'd choose to stay put right here where we are.

@karenryder6317, okay, slob.

@@chazzwozzio Sounds great but it'd be hardly socially acceptable

But I've interacted with the people who were born in "the good old days" and with the younger generation. The zoomers are monkeys compared to their ancestors.

That’s a lie. The crime was higher in the 80s too.

Lol sure buddy make sure to add white in there

@@sladewilson377 Not really, it's ironic because you're doing the exact things that people are doing when idolizing the past, expect that you're idolizing the present and even future, believing that we actually have things better now when all the statistics show that humans are more miserable now than they were 100 years ago.

@@Battlefield1918 I’m not doing either. All I’m saying is the past was not that good (if at all) and that the present is not that bad. Conservatives may not like that but that’s the reality. We have always lived in a world where there is the good, bad and the ugly. It’s interesting that you bring up mental health and make the claim that based on stats that in the past people were less miserable which is untrue. The 20th century alone had far more fatalities and wars than this one. The world was a lot more chaotic back then compared to anymore. There was far more death and misery in the old days. Our forefathers didn’t have it good at all. Things like mental health problems only started to get recognition till recently. Till today, there are still parts of the world like Africa and The Middle East which are super nostalgic and traditional that believe such things don’t exist. To them, it falls into the realm of superstition and religion. People with mental and physical disabilities were also disregarded as humans back then. They are much more accepted into society.

@@Battlefield1918 right, you really want me to believe that crime stats from that long ago are to be trusted? It was a lot easier for official documentation to be mishandled compared to now. Studies have shown that crime from back then was criminally underreported. Crime reporting was localised and the equipment they had back then to record, prevent and stop crime was nowhere as good as it is today. Crime against POCs and women would also go unreported frequently back then. Your comment is a joke. Policing and Crime reporting would have been very difficult with no CCTVs, bodycams or other sophisticated surveillance equipment. It was far far easier to commit any sort of crime whether that was arson, burglary, theft, rape etc and get away with it. It was also far easier for crime to go underreported. Nowadays, it is much much harder to commit crimes because of technological and social advancement. Police Brutality and Misconduct were also worse back then. Police even with all the surveillance equipment such as CCTVs, bodycams still commit all sorts of screwed up things. Only Lord knows what cops were doing back them. Anything relating to the collection of statistics or anything bureaucratic back then was far worse compared to today. Back then, it would have been far easier to also do fraud particularly with official documents like passports, birth certificates etc. E.g Stealing a car especially in a rural area back then would have been easy. You could Hotwire it, drive it away from the neighbourhood and the owner would never be able to do. Compared to now it is exponentially harder to so. Even if you beat (unlikely) the advanced security systems found in modern cars. You now have to beat CCTV systems that will pick up the vehicle’s registration systems. Police will nowadays find it far far easier to locate stolen cars compared to back then It was also easier to rape a woman. It was only a couple decades ago that rape was actual made illegal even in western countries. Women particularly in western/developed countries have far more power today in modern society. If you were to so much as lay a hand upon them. They could have you locked up in your local police situation. Burglaries and Robberies were also far easier to commit back then. It was much easier to rob a bank back then and it was also much easier to loot someone’s home. Nowadays, improvements in technology which have improved the security/surveillance systems make those things much harder. You so much as lay a finger on a single penny belonging to a bank or a step foot in a modern unauthorised. Alarms go off both in the home/bank and local police stations. You also have to get past modern security equipment which is very hard to do.

It must be a very inherent human tendency to see our past years as more innocent because WE were more innocent in those times.

Truly said. Romanticizing the past or Underestimating today's problems is not gonna help to change the status quo

I honestly don’t think any living creature that can feel nostalgia should have their lives matter.

@@karenryder6317 Even that's not really true. People are more moral as they get older. Children bully each other, acting with pointless cruelty that would be unthinkable to 99% of adults. Studies even showing that a man 17 - 20 is twice as likely to hit his girlfriend as one 25 - 28.

That's andropause. @@Dennis-nc3vw

For women, things are really way better now

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I'm glad people like you are out there, if not to live a better life but to piss off those who hate you are

@@lemsavage9473 thank you, and I will continue to do that as long as I live

and this is supposed to convince me the past was bad????

They really weren't

@@PeruvianPotato there's an entire generation of boys and girls being born now into a country where they will never own land, houses, afford education, and they will forever be stuck on government assistance just so they can scrape by as eternal serfs. You've got the wool pulled over your eyes.

Even the propaganda back then was better than it is now

i think we can all agree that young people today are the most ignorant and mentally ill they have ever been. they dont even know what gender they are anymore

@@actualturtle2421 Actually, fair point. Propaganda & Advertizing were much more exciting back then. Now it's all about "Subtle manipulation". Why can't we have ads like "SEGA DOES WHAT NINTENDON'T!" Anymore?

@@spaghettiisyummy.3623 I mean the counterpoint to that is whenever a big figure messes up we can all see it, the recent US presidents are hilarious for all the wrong reasons

@@thunderspark1536Rioting and going against society should be promoted more often then.

I believe you are right.

That's disgusting.

Your grandma lies. I was there and that is bs.

@@mehomeboymi411 Nah, you are the one lying.

I smell BS

@Rossscow war is cool cry about it

​​@@longiusaescius2537Than you'll be glad to be on the frontlines if you're ever in one I'm sure

@@TheOnlyCelciAndDontYouForgetIt as long as it's like the emergency and not the canal crisis

a teacher who teaches something he is he himself ignorant about should be put into jail. Take your kids to talk to combat veterans, don't pull stuff out your comfortable professor's ass about how horrible it is

@skemmdarvagr Believe it or not you don't need to talk to a veteran to understand why things like Agent Orange are atrocious

No, it was more like these are good days but not as good as the fifties. Now it is: this is like those dystopian movies! Nostalgia was more like wasn't it simpler back then? Now its like, damn I wished I lived back then so I wouldn't have to pay hundreds of thousands in college tuition to maybe enter the middle class.

@@daviddufresne9905or they will be like I don’t have to go to a racially segregated school anymore

Are you saying that America has gotten way more political?

there is still merit to the point. Strong work ethics, family ethics and traditions where often carried out on the backs of minorities and women. Things might have been respected, but that doesnt mean they were good. We are decosntructing a lot of things at once, which might make it seem chaotic, but isnt bad inherently. There is a reason why things change, because a lot of people are dissatisfied with the current situation. You cant hold up traditions that underminde the value of over half the population

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Exactly, certain aspects have gotten better and certain aspects have gotten worse… Cars for example were definitely death traps, but there was also a level of freedom and creativity that is no longer possible due to the technology within vehicles today… For people who enjoy driving modern cars are boring and disconnected compared to cars from 10-15 years ago let alone 30-40-50 years ago…

@@griffins750 Yup, things like that too but also more important stuff such as college tuition fees or housing being much more affordable when boomers or Gen X were young; those older generations also didn’t worry about climate change or the threat of AI or mass immigration or low birth rates, so in terms of life for your average Joe, at least here in the West the prospects for young people nowadays seem less optimistic than back then or at least in my humble opinion that seems to be the case…

@@martinledermann1862 Yeah I definitely agree!

My opinion is that life has always been garbage, just for different reasons and for different people. It wouldn't matter what generation I was born into, I would still want to exit life.

I wish the best for you guys.

What you go about it. Cry ??? Go in the lake and catch some bass. Cry again because you let the fish burn in the kitchen bevause you were bussy crying.

​@@hailgiratinathetruegod7564???

i hope it gets brighter out there, man

you sound miserable​@@hailgiratinathetruegod7564

Exactly. The video is sort of a strawman. Even the opening premise he said most people say we have more things today, but there were aspects of the past that were better. I don’t think reading testimonies out of a basically gossip magazine as evidence of reality for the majority of people.

I just remembered another great animated video from After Skool "How to Have a Life Worth Living - Jordan Peterson" which touches upon the same idea. In it, Peterson recount's Dostoevsky's "Notes from the Underground": (I'm paraphrasing) "If you gave people everything they wanted and all they had to do was laze around eating cake and sit in warm pools, then within a week, they would smash everything up just so they had something interesting to do".

okay, proposed solution we end war by replacing it with violent video games

Ender's Game？ 😅@@thejuiceking2219

This reminds me of the scene in the movie Fight Club where Tyler Durden talks about how their generation is lost because no big war or economic crisis happened while they were alive.

Eyyyy! Like Ender's Game? Proxy war through video games 😆@@thejuiceking2219

@francegamer furry copium

@@longiusaescius2537 go back to making sigma edits in your mom's basement

@@longiusaescius2537 hmm. Looking at your KZfaq comments history you seem to be a very angry fella. Do you want to talk about it? Cuddles maybe? I care! :3

@@francegamer< Changi resident

@@longiusaescius2537 Thas okey then :3

Music was best in the 1970s. I've heard music before and since and that's an objective fact.

@@daviddufresne9905 Actually crazy that we'll see people say shit like this about Katy Pery and Justin Beiber in the 2040s.

the goal of every nigerian on earth is to live in a country built by white people

Life expectancy is heavily influenced by child birth safety. I'd imagine Nigeria isn't up to 1st world hospital code but idk.

Life expectancy is highly influenced by infant and child mortality. If one person lives until 80 and his brother dies as a baby, they are have a life expectancy of 40 between them.

This is a big issue when people cite life expectancy as an indicator of societal well-being. In a lot of countries, life expectancy is skewed downwards by high infant mortality. Most people take avg life expectancy to mean that the majority die early, while in reality, the people who make it to adulthood may live comparable lifespans to developed countries.

@@Dennis-nc3vw Exactly. Don't know how people think people magically died at 40 if that's the life expectancy a century ago in some place.

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If that’s all you got from this video then you lack critical thinking skills

@@mindgames7411 wdym? like really. I'm actually asking, it's not all I got from the video

@@mindgames7411 Fun and irony is not for you, Mr. (or Mrs., or Mlrs).