Can we agree that 1965-1989 was the best years ever?

[Muse]

Nope, it sucked. The only thing I liked was the music...ok, and Star Wars.

OP didn't say it didn't suck. But is there better? Personally, I think Star Wars sucked. The music, yeah, it was killer (a lot of it).

 

[ImpulsE69]

I think it's something that comes with age in general. Seems like the older people get, the more common the thought is that "things were better in MY day, this country has gone to SHIT!" No it hasn't, you're just old and bitter and life didn't turn out the way you wanted it (as is true for many people). Once you're past the point of no return and you realize you've peaked in your life, anger sets in... especially if you weren't as successful as you wanted to be and now it's too late.

Yeah, I'm getting older and responsibility sucks... so do the doctor bills that I never used to have. I'm sore after dealing with a full day yardwork that I hate more than any other chore I have, and while I have the money to buy video games I certainly don't have the time to play them... and I don't even have a kid yet. But life is still quite a bit better now than at almost any other point in my life, and hopefully it continues to get better as long as the wife and I keep on our path of being less fat so there's less health issues.

But...look at all the highly successful people who are old and bitter and angry. I think it is just a normal thing for humans, for they love conflict. Truly happy people tend to be simple life people who don't need a ton of attention, money, or friends.

 

[Muse]

But...look at all the highly successful people who are old and bitter and angry. I think it is just a normal thing for humans, for they love conflict. Truly happy people tend to be simple life people who don't need a ton of attention, money, or friends.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. - Socrates

Ah, and you can hit the link in my sig for ideas on happiness!

 

[gorcorps]

But...look at all the highly successful people who are old and bitter and angry. I think it is just a normal thing for humans, for they love conflict. Truly happy people tend to be simple life people who don't need a ton of attention, money, or friends.

That's true... it's never enough is it?

 

[Zeze]

This is stated quite a bit, yet it never stopped them all from coming here (well other than the slave descendants). I mean, just saying, no one was forcing hispanics or asians into the country. I'll give you the blacks and women and gays.

I like eating okay food. It doesn't mean the restaurant shouldn't strive for better food.

Also are you white? It sounds like an old suburban white man thing to say ("git out of my country, my ancestors were here just one generation before you!).

 

[ImpulsE69]

I like eating okay food. It doesn't mean the restaurant shouldn't strive for better food.

Also are you white? It sounds like an old suburban white man thing to say ("git out of my country, my ancestors were here just one generation before you!).

Well yes, but I wasn't saying that at all. However, you can't trash half the country and not take into account many of the people you are talking about came here on their own knowing how it was. As an intelligent person, I tend to stay away from places I don't feel wanted or to use your analogy, have bad service. Let's try to be adults and not turn everything into 'he's a white guy so he can't say anything and everything he says is racist".

And to be clear, I have no issue with immigrants or non-white people in general. I do not agree with how they can be treated or how they've been treated in the past.

 

[Mai72]

We tend to look at the past with rose colored glasses.

Now, 2018 is just as good as 1980. It's just different.

 

[Muse]

We tend to look at the past with rose colored glasses.

Now, 2018 is just as good as 1980. It's just different.

I won't gainsay this. Don't know if it's true, the second part, but I have always noticed the tendency of so many people to refer to "the good old days." I've never liked that. They generally ignore what wasn't good, and there was plenty of it. They think about what was good for them then that isn't now. Those are unsustainable conversations and not smart in my experience.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I’d take the 70s and 80s over today any day of the week especially if I could go back with my knowledge of what was going to happen. What made the 70s bearable would be the knowledge that the 80s were so freaking awesome and on the horizon. In retrospect, the 90s were pretty good too.

 

[Thebobo]

We tend to look at the past with rose colored glasses.

Now, 2018 is just as good as 1980. It's just different.

No matter where you go there you are.