We are suffered for the dream is not really happen. The raising wave of a then liberal media (not to steal personal data in the west or monitor each movement by china). The liberal of internet by a on letting commerical use of internet or at least access. Then Soviet Union collapse reinforced the good world.ģ. Look like it is going to be end of history as all towards market based. And the chinese seem to learn and even taste of democracy even (many experiment). And the America get the most of the value added. Economically you have the chinese factor which raise up as cheap and very good labour source. Obviously not paradise but the dream is alive.Ģ. Politically as point out by a book who we are (the we is American), the American dream as a furnace where all race lives happily together as American x (American American, American Mexican, American Italian. I suspect you hit a point I never thought in that way. To put it another way if we think the world was best in our youth we probably also think it went to hell when we became adults and started looking around. She might be right, but I struggle to say civilization was better in 1960 than in 1990 or even 2020. My mom thinks the 1960s were a wonderful time to be a kid because that's when she was a kid. It's important to maintain a realistic perspective on history as it relates to the current day, especially because we know more about the past now than we did then. We tend to look at the past, and especially our youth, through rose tinted glasses. I think you have hit on something very important to internalize though. Social media did change how we consume information and created feedback loops we didn't (specifically) have in 1999. Also there's clearly more information on the internet today, but we also use it differently. Not to single you out because I was doing the same thing.
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You were just using it to download mp3s instead of find out how many people got blown up in a synagogue halfway around the world. Sure but in 1999 you had access to the Internet.