I am shocked on nearly a daily basis in the changes to the society around me that it seems nearly no one else even notices.
The changes are so profound over the last few decades that I honestly feel that I am now living in an entirely different country with a handful of people from where I used to live long ago here with me also.
Welcome to my world...
“I am shocked on nearly a daily basis in the changes to the society around me that it seems nearly no one else even notices.
The changes are so profound over the last few decades that I honestly feel that I am now living in an entirely different country with a handful of people from where I used to live long ago here with me also.”
Same here. The TV was on last night and some of the commercials were downright disgusting. I don’t remember anything like that when my son was growing up, and he’s 23 now.
And I can see our step towards fascism grow monthly, maybe even weekly. It used to be at a slower pace, but has ramped up.
This is probably how some Germans felt in 1935-37.
Yes. I grew up in the 70s and 80s, and I remember with fondness my little hometown and the people I dealt with therein.
I had a paper route at 10 (now relegated to adults), worked topping corn at 12 (now relegated to migrant workers/illegals), worked odd jobs at 14 (mostly mowing lawns and working for the owner of the company my dad worked for at the owner's ranch - things the owner could now be in trouble for were I to have gotten injured - at the time it would have been a non-issue). Then at 16, I was finally able to get a job at that company. I started working with equipment, then the law said I couldn't work with that equipment until I turned 18 - even though I'd been working on it safely for a year. Old muscle cars were a dime a dozen, and my first and second cars were '67 and '66 Novas I'd rebuilt with my dad at the time (good luck doing the same now). No bicycle helmets and pads (unless we were racing in BMX races), no mandatory seatbelt laws (we're still here), no full-on government intrusion into our lives.
Nowadays, it's getting to be that if it isn't forbidden, it's mandatory. Kinda like some old regimes we thought we'd relegated to the dust bins of history. Now, it's our turn. I fear for my kids. I honestly don't know what I can do to ensure they have a country to grow up in. I wonder if it's the same feeling our forefathers had when they threw off the shackles of the King, or fought their own kin in the Civil War.
That’s the Gods’ truth right there.