Ask Lemmy

So the silent generation is mostly passed away. I don't think they or the greatest generation looked back at their childhood as the best time. Certainly I knew many silent genertion that experienced enough of the depression to not see it as better. Since then honestly you have had good times that keep on getting less so. So each generation after has seen the best times as kids. I mean I love the internet and computers to some degree but outside of free/libre its gotten very dystopian. I grew up at the time digital was just becoming a thing and mark my time period by that thing. I see a time when pretty much all the conveniences of life were around and sure there are a lot of neat things that came after but none of them are particularly important. All the convenienced were managed with little to no plastic. glass aluminum and paper were able to handle a lot of things. There was massive environment cleanup between the early 60's and late 70's. One thing I worry about is each generation not even realizing what good times are like at this point. As some like to throw out we are living in a particularly good time for mankind but its also falling way from it and has been for almost 50 years and has no indication that fall will stop. So I worry that people will die off and the people left won't even realize what is possible for a general standard of living.