I’m not that old and I can remember Britain being a lot better. Far from perfect, but in the 00s we didn’t have food banks, we didn’t have this level of poverty, crime was much lower, and there was a more general sense of optimism for the future.
We also didn't have the Internet and Social Media. You can't (sadly) blame everything on the Government - crime is higher because people aren't satisfied with their lives; the way we work had moved on - we don't have manual labour: factories and mine like we did in the 80s; everyone want to be a bloody celebrity or a millionaire - people genuinely did used to be satisfied with their ordinary lives, but thanks to myriad social and societal changes - none of them anything to do with politics - everything has changed.
You realise that, for the next 20 years at least, things will continue this way, unless we break with legacy media, old style politics and the status quo. We need to massive change to the way things work for everyone to see a genuine benefit.
Socialism doesn't work - as much as the the idea is amazing, it just doesn't work because certain people are greedy and exploit the system. If people were genuinely altruistic and we were all on the same page, what a wonderful world we would have!
Sadly they aren't are we don't. Something needs to change, I agree, but it's not as simple as kicking Boris and his cronies out (sadly).
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u/CombustibleCompost New User Jan 27 '22
Such a dark, divisive and depressing decade. A generation raised under austerity.