Don’t want people remembering that life is supposed to improve and not deteriorate because they aren’t slaving efficiently enough.
steel-monkey on
It wasn’t better for most people.
BeneficialSquirrel91 on
Did the show get better? It was in my feed after Mad Men and I was intrigued but the first episode puzzled me.
Babelight on
Of course. We’ve got to keep thinking that things are inevitably the way they are and that we’re progressing, not regressing.
Otherwise we’ll start asking questions about history, what people know, whether what we’re doing now is actually the best path available for us.
“Is there another way?” “But wait – did it really happen that way?” “Why can’t we challenge this view?” – the Cabal trembles in dread.
Similar to making photos of Mars look more orange so it looks more alien…
Photographs must look drab, and history that we digest must highlight how HARD everything was. What was easy must fade into oblivion, what was good must die from memory, and people before us were savages in their own way.
Despite Atlantis. Despite random things we’ve uncovered that indicate thriving intelligent beings, hundreds, thousands of years ago.
Why can’t we construct anything close to the amazing buildings built a thousand years ago? Why were amazing buildings founded or taken over or built within two years by an 18 year old non-architect in the 1800s, and yet construction on the wing of a building now sometimes takes decades?
Someone’s hiding something. Lots of things.
The thing that opened up all conspiracy theories for me was “what if we’re not heading towards a Golden Age, and that’s already past? What if this is the Iron Age?”
CHOLO_ORACLE on
ITT: we pretend the fallout games don’t exist
Atalanta8 on
We know why we can’t have nice things. Shareholder value.
Existing_Practice908 on
I hate how so many people are just incapable of thinking outside of themselves. Literally what was nice for anybody other than cis, hetero, white people in the 50s and 60s🙄
diligentphylantrop on
Ofc it is. One of their main goals is to keep you feeling unsettled and out of place, no matter where you are. Look at the shift in modern architecture and design, it’s intentionally cold and alienating, stripped of any sense of warmth or home. When nowhere feels like home anymore, picking up and relocating starts to feel natural (globalization).
Horror_Storm_7856 on
Everybody has a different version of the past
JelloWise2789 on
Racism.
WynnGwynn on
The 50s and sixties were really only „good“ for a certain type of person. Not everyone. You could rape your wife and it wasn’t considered rape. Women couldn’t have bank accounts. Do we even need to discuss civil rights do EVERYONE could do the same stuff? Gay people couldn’t get married etc. This was NOT a better time unless you were a straight white dude.
andapapertowelroll on
I, for one, am very glad I was born in the 21st century.
Granite66 on
Post world war 2, the power of US economy was the manufacturing worker who built real things of originality, good quality, needed by the world and for which they were able to receive a good wage resulting in a tax base and GDP which gave the US it’s primacy. 1980s onwards sold those jobs overseas and replaced workers great pay check with a credit card. Thus today.
magenta_placenta on
Or maybe retro mid-century aesthetics simply cycled through natural trend waves and media moved on to other decade revivals (such as ’80s and ’90s nostalgia seen in shows like *Stranger Things*).
First_Bar_8024 on
Oh, yes, I truly believe that’s very true. And it’s true on several levels.
They don’t want people asking why we can’t have nice things anymore; they don’t want people noticing that „ugly“ has become the new „chic“; they don’t want people noticing the degradation of all things beautiful (there’s a YouTube Channel on that topic.
What they really don’t want people to notice is that the world has been reprogrammed to celebrate descent to the terms of the lowest common denominator. Society has been programmed to accept the worst of everything and everyone. Architecture is bland, ugly, boxy and entirely utliltarian built by the lowest bidder. Fashion is jeans with a worn-out look and holes and worn with T-Shirts and crocks. High Art is paintings by Frida Kahloe and giant metal crap sculpture in an Astroturf Park.
And then, there’s the crumbling infrastructure; failing bridges, pot hole roads, deraling trains, broken Airlines. And of course, high cuisine is McDonalds.
Could it get much worse? It will get worse.
cavs457 on
It was only good for white men back then . That’s it.
seanma99 on
The aiplaine seat sizes did it for me. Im like planes didnt pack us in like sardines back then??
TheRealBillyShakes on
We can’t constantly show everyone the enshittification of the world.
Important-Agent2584 on
It was media fantasy in the 50s and 60s no different than it is today.
MermaidMotel14 on
Ahh yes, jell-o salad and being miserable, surely those are „nice things“
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Don’t want people remembering that life is supposed to improve and not deteriorate because they aren’t slaving efficiently enough.
It wasn’t better for most people.
Did the show get better? It was in my feed after Mad Men and I was intrigued but the first episode puzzled me.
Of course. We’ve got to keep thinking that things are inevitably the way they are and that we’re progressing, not regressing.
Otherwise we’ll start asking questions about history, what people know, whether what we’re doing now is actually the best path available for us.
“Is there another way?” “But wait – did it really happen that way?” “Why can’t we challenge this view?” – the Cabal trembles in dread.
Similar to making photos of Mars look more orange so it looks more alien…
Photographs must look drab, and history that we digest must highlight how HARD everything was. What was easy must fade into oblivion, what was good must die from memory, and people before us were savages in their own way.
Despite Atlantis. Despite random things we’ve uncovered that indicate thriving intelligent beings, hundreds, thousands of years ago.
Why can’t we construct anything close to the amazing buildings built a thousand years ago? Why were amazing buildings founded or taken over or built within two years by an 18 year old non-architect in the 1800s, and yet construction on the wing of a building now sometimes takes decades?
Someone’s hiding something. Lots of things.
The thing that opened up all conspiracy theories for me was “what if we’re not heading towards a Golden Age, and that’s already past? What if this is the Iron Age?”
ITT: we pretend the fallout games don’t exist
We know why we can’t have nice things. Shareholder value.
I hate how so many people are just incapable of thinking outside of themselves. Literally what was nice for anybody other than cis, hetero, white people in the 50s and 60s🙄
Ofc it is. One of their main goals is to keep you feeling unsettled and out of place, no matter where you are. Look at the shift in modern architecture and design, it’s intentionally cold and alienating, stripped of any sense of warmth or home. When nowhere feels like home anymore, picking up and relocating starts to feel natural (globalization).
Everybody has a different version of the past
Racism.
The 50s and sixties were really only „good“ for a certain type of person. Not everyone. You could rape your wife and it wasn’t considered rape. Women couldn’t have bank accounts. Do we even need to discuss civil rights do EVERYONE could do the same stuff? Gay people couldn’t get married etc. This was NOT a better time unless you were a straight white dude.
I, for one, am very glad I was born in the 21st century.
Post world war 2, the power of US economy was the manufacturing worker who built real things of originality, good quality, needed by the world and for which they were able to receive a good wage resulting in a tax base and GDP which gave the US it’s primacy. 1980s onwards sold those jobs overseas and replaced workers great pay check with a credit card. Thus today.
Or maybe retro mid-century aesthetics simply cycled through natural trend waves and media moved on to other decade revivals (such as ’80s and ’90s nostalgia seen in shows like *Stranger Things*).
Oh, yes, I truly believe that’s very true. And it’s true on several levels.
They don’t want people asking why we can’t have nice things anymore; they don’t want people noticing that „ugly“ has become the new „chic“; they don’t want people noticing the degradation of all things beautiful (there’s a YouTube Channel on that topic.
What they really don’t want people to notice is that the world has been reprogrammed to celebrate descent to the terms of the lowest common denominator. Society has been programmed to accept the worst of everything and everyone. Architecture is bland, ugly, boxy and entirely utliltarian built by the lowest bidder. Fashion is jeans with a worn-out look and holes and worn with T-Shirts and crocks. High Art is paintings by Frida Kahloe and giant metal crap sculpture in an Astroturf Park.
And then, there’s the crumbling infrastructure; failing bridges, pot hole roads, deraling trains, broken Airlines. And of course, high cuisine is McDonalds.
Could it get much worse? It will get worse.
It was only good for white men back then . That’s it.
The aiplaine seat sizes did it for me. Im like planes didnt pack us in like sardines back then??
We can’t constantly show everyone the enshittification of the world.
It was media fantasy in the 50s and 60s no different than it is today.
Ahh yes, jell-o salad and being miserable, surely those are „nice things“