You said that so well. I miss the days when we had good threads on the topics of the day. When going to fr could be like taking a class. There were sillies back then but they were avoided and disappeared
I know this one...
Boy the way Glen Miller played,
Songs that made the hit parade,
Guys like us we had it made,
Those were the days,
And you know where you were then,
Girls were girls and men were men,
Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again,
Didn’t need no welfare states
Everybody pulled his weight,
Gee our old Lasalle ran great,
Those were the days
Like the song, it never really happened that way. As soon as someone tries to have that type of conversation someone always shows up to insert the official counter narrative that they were paid to project.
Our memories of the old days always tend to bury the unpleasant and magnify what we enjoy.