• Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
    18·
    7 hours ago

    It’s weird to think about it. I was born in '87 and grew up hearing ahout the distant '60s and '70s as though they were this mythical, out-of-reach time in which my relatives reminisced. They even came with those old, shitty polaroids that really sold the vibe. Now it’s 2026 and people talk like the late ‘80s were a lifetime ago. Then I realize that from young peoples’ perspective now, that time period is even further away than the '60s were back when I listened to my parents talk about them.

    I think the late, great Bozo the Clown said it best when he said, “WWHHHAAWT DA FFFFFFUUUUUCK…”

  • Tigeroovy@lemmy.caEnglish
    25·
    10 hours ago

    These people gonna have their minds blown when they’re 50 and they’re still alive.

  • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
    19·
    10 hours ago

    Limnals and early millennials spent enough of their lives able to perceive Good Shit and still have some modicum of hope.

    '90-‘99? Those folks grew up in a fuckin’ 911 world. All they know is shit and all they pray for is an early grave

    • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 hours ago

      USian ‘90s born:

      • 9/11 before kindergarten, watched it on live TV.

      • Increasing school shootings year over year

      • Incessant racism by paranoid family members and media writ large (which made even little me feel icky)

      • 2008 Great Recession. Constant fear of where my next meal was coming from all through middle school.

      • More school shootings

      • Was supposed to idolize a man who dumped drone bombs on foreign kids because at least he wasn’t Bush. Still wondered why we had troops in the Middle East if things were supposed to be better?

      • At least equal marriage was federally legalized in 2015. Yay

      • Missed the deadline to vote in 2016 due to moving issues, had to watch hell happen in real time.

      • Lived in a major city, therefore in constant fear of nuclear holocaust due to a deranged rapist not keeping his mouth shut. After growing up in fear of anthrax in the mail and getting gunned down at school :)))

      • Told that college was the only way I’d make anything of myself. Graduated into COVID.

      • Watched reproductive rights get ripped away from millions after my family scoffed that they wouldn’t. My own grandmother had bodily rights longer than I did.

      • Been pinching my nose and voting consistently since 2018, but still see fascism come roaring back full swing and transphobia+racism+now pedophilia get openly celebrated by a majority of rubes.

      Plus a ton of my own health issues that only worsened after getting COVID (and that’s with the vaccine, I fear for what would have happened without it)? Yeah, I’m waiting to get off the ride but refuse to do it myself out of spite.

      I want to see the obituaries of at least a few of these bastards, first.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      4·
      4 hours ago

      Lol yep. Except it’s weird, I remember the world generally getting worse, but people getting less bad for a lot of my childhood. Around the beginning of my memories every adult in the country lost their goddamn mind and a lot of them got super racist to middle eastern folks. So yeah over the course of the 00s I watched as insane people chilled out and my generation became increasingly chill with people of different skin colors, religions, genders, and sexual orientations. I watched as Obama was elected, homophobia became uncool, and Americans learned to get over themselves and eat a falafel.

      Then in college gamergare happened and the one area where things had been improving became a constant battle. So yeah hope faded to anger. I still have hope, but it’s a very different hope than one of my youth

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Clearly. Didn’t you read the post?

      Also, I’m an ancestor now. Neato.

      Us ancestors are also tired. FYI.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 hours ago

      I’m 45 and I don’t know what you younguns are on about. I don’t have knee issues. I don’t have major back issues. Heck I can still out work an Amish crew.

      Y’all need to stretch more.

    • Ænima@lemmy.zip
      5·
      8 hours ago

      You are me. I am you. Old enough to be burdened with the memory of a world before the internet, doomed to watch the death of freedom because of it.

      Old, like me tag

      • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world
        4·
        6 hours ago

        Damn, I remember in the late 90’s playing Everquest with some guy in China that knew almost no English thinking how fucking amazing it was to be playing a game with someone on the other side of the world. Now I sit around thinking how the unabomber maybe wasn’t so crazy. I work in cybersecurity and all I want to do is go back to the AOL era

      • Ænima@lemmy.zip
        7·
        8 hours ago

        Trust me, if I was the Lich King with the Lich King’s army and powers, there would be a lot fewer billionaires…

  • Alexander Daychilde@lemmy.world
    60·
    15 hours ago

    '75 here. All you youngsters can get the hell off my lawn.

    Actually, what I’ve noticed is that I don’t so much feel older as I do the “kids” keep getting younger. Was I like that at their age? Yep, probably, but I felt mature and adult then. To some degree. That thing about how you never really feel like an adult? I still get that a little bit. But after three decades of being an adult, it has also set in a bit.

    Mostly, I’m opinionated, and I remember things from the past 40 years because I was alive for them, so they aren’t history to me, they are a part of the life I experienced.

    So as you guys get older, I think you’ll find that - like whatever happens after Trump, unless it does continue to get worse (which is quite possible), there will come a time when a younger generation won’t know what it felt like to live under this fascism, and you, having lived through it, will have your mind blown because it’s history to them.

    Which I guess has helped me when I think about figures from history and the past in general. While I can’t imagine living before the era of cars, I do know that whatever time frame you look at - to the people living at that time, it was all contemporary and modern. And so when you see people that had relationships with other people and arguments and such, you really do realize that we’re all human.

    Also, the older I get, the more I realize just how precious life is. And when you’re young, you really are going to live forever. But every single day that passes is gone forever. Every month takes you further forward. Each year goes by and never comes back. When your 20s are gone, they won’t ever return. Don’t let that upset you, just make sure you aren’t coasting along and wasting time, waiting for what comes next, because if you spend you life waiting for what comes next, you die without anything ever coming next. Don’t “make every moment count” - do take time to relax. Just make sure that you are not ONLY relaxing, and don’t put everything off to the future. Do what you can to enjoy the life you have as best as you can while also trying to keep improving things.

      • Alexander Daychilde@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        When I want to reply and tell someone to fuck off because I disagree with them, I try to remember the pleasant results of NOT doing that, so a reply like this helps me be a better person, thank you <3

    • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
      12·
      15 hours ago

      I remember watching a CRT television belted to a five-foot tall roller stand, and we had suspended all classes that day, even though we were at school. We had just sat there, crying and watching the news, as both towers were smoking, then one had collapsed and myself and other kids had screamed, wailed, and one vomited there on the carpet. Occasionally someone would get pulled away to take a phone call, and they didn’t come back the same. They changed. We all changed.

      I still remember Kevin Cosgrove’s last phone call.

      Newberg, Oregon, September 11th ‘01.

      • Alexander Daychilde@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        15 hours ago

        For me, it was my first day at Texas Instruments. I had to show up to a mandatory Outlook training session (which was hilarious as I was being hired for a helpdesk position. I’d used Outlook since the first version in 1997 and supported it…). A guy came in and turned on the televisions.

        I called my wife, who was working in the flight path of DFW airport. We also tried to get hold of my stepmother, who was working in the tallest building in downtown Dallas at the time.

        It was much chaos, as I’m sure you remember, as nobody really knew what was going on or what further attacks might happen.

        So for me, I was a young adult, married for about a year and a half when it happened - I got to live half a decade as an adult in the pre-9/11 world.

        It’s hard for me to remember that for newer generations, all this bullshit that really started taking off hardcore after 9/11 is normalized. I saw our rights being taken away, the constant fear increase, the hatred for Muslims that blossomed into racism coming back out of its dirty closet, the rise of fascism.

        It wasn’t always that way. :(