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In reply to the discussion: Did anyone else realize this country was finished on January 20, 1981? [View all]Hydra
(14,459 posts)I was about 3 when it happened. I've sparred with any number of smart people of the older generations, but I found something odd. They all say I'm pessimistic and that "the world doesn't work like that!".
For a long time, I didn't get it. I just tell it like it is. Then I had a revelation- the world was different before then. There were possibilities, opportunities, dreams that could be realized. Now, those things live only in the realm of unfounded hopes.
Maybe the strongest evidence of how much changed is that I can't really believe the world people insist existed before that was real. For what it's worth, I hope it did exist...but based on my research, it's all been a myth and shared delusion. The same faces and names throughout history, living like kings and destroying the world for their amusement.