15th July 2026, 11:44 AM
You're not naive at all. Sometimes, the nostalgia is objectively correct and not rose tinted. While the 80's weren't this utopia we remember, the year 2015 was objectively better than every year since then. In some ways, we don't even know what was it will be worse. You know the latest lettuce infection? It's so hard to trace because Wilbur Cobb, or whoever that decaying Ren & Stimpy character Trump put in charge of... of MEDICINE is, requested that Trump & co add in a provision to defund and gut the entire department that actually tracks illnesses and examines our food.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)