Well back then we thought everyone in charge was evil. Back then we had Krutschev, Nixon etc. Always nuclear war looming. And Reagan with this trickle downs, the Bush wars over made-up WMDs etc.

I don’t think there was ever really a positive period. Maybe the 90s which was kinda the high point. Economics were good, America and NATO was the undisputed world power, nobody took global warming seriously yet and the internet was promising a great future.

Then after 2000 we had the dot com crash, 9/11, the resulting wars, Russia becoming an enemy again, the financial world crisis, the rise of the internet as a surveillance tool, global warming, the pandemic, exploding house prices everywhere.

Really pretty much exactly after the change of the century everything turned to shit.

They know what they are doing. Their goals just don’t align with the rest of humanity.

The mistake we make is in assuming that government choices are born of incompetence… The actions of empire are not incompetent. They are not intended to serve you or the citizens, but to serve material interests, the plunder of land, natural resources, markets, and cheap labor".

-Michael Parenti

RIP to the GOAT

Edit: He talks about it in the lecture starting around 15:35. Though the quote above is from his book “against empire”

https://youtu.be/s5oPFAfdrkU?t=935

No that was a long time ago for some of us it’s always been like this you were just insulated by privilege

We didn’t all realize that at the same point. Some of us have known that for a very long time.

Thanks for notifying, I hate to know it’s true (no insult intended)