Comment on Are we all suffering from "future shock" in 2025?
drmoose@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Very cool idea!
Tho I think people from 70s would very much still choose 2025 living over 70s. People really underestimate how much better we have now.
Especially if you take a look at the whole world outside of US bubble. You think people in Asia and Africa yearn for 70s? Future shock is shockingly great in their eyes.
I think the more apt issue here is simply the fact that US empire is falling as this shock does not replicate everywhere so clearly it’s not universal.
Tho I think people from 70s would very much still choose 2025 living over 70s. People really underestimate how much better we have now.
Couldn’t I yearn for a time that has neither the bad points of 1970 and none of the bad points from 2025? Not everything was worse in the 1970s, and not everything was better, either.
Sure the same way I yearn for Middle Earth then.
If you take at least half of a reasonable utilitarian position then 70s don’t stand a chance no matter how you look at it. Everything is literally better now except nostalgic bullshit like “housing was cheaper if I was white american” and “I couldn’t doomscroll” sort of nonsense.
I don’t find it too hard to indicate some things that were actually better in the 1970s:
I can make all these points without saying “1970 was better in every way than 2025”. Why does it have to be all-or-nothing? Can’t some things have been better then and not worse?
athairmor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Future Shock isn’t about the 70s or any decade being “better.” It’s about the effects of rapidly changing technology not that technology shouldn’t change.
drmoose@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah but OP clearly implies that rapidly changing world is a bad thing when it doesn’t seem to be in most measurable metrics.