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Is this supposed to be a "the world has turned into shit" take, even though it's been like this for ages (way before the 4chan poster, or anyone alive for that matter, was born)?
Yeah, this is a common fascist recruitment tactic. "The world has gone to shit, things were better before."
This is the call to return to the golden past, a perfect time before "they" took it away from "us." In reality, as you point out, that golden past never existed. However, once people have it framed in their minds that their chance at utopia was "taken" from them, there's almost nothing they don't feel justified in doing to take it back.
That was a very limited boon made possible off of the backs of the cumulative dead of several modern wars. Prior to that, the notion of "home ownership" wasn't even a thing for the most part.
Then we must start WW3 then
There was also a time where we killed someone who disagreed with us instead of being sad about it on the Internet too.
Modern life as we know it is relatively recent. Maybe 150 years MAX. Sure things have always had a tinge of bad, but take things in context.
We're in an age where our grandparents or great grandparents, people we had exposure to and spoke to, experienced the start of monumental technological advancement in a relatively short period of time. Cars, planes, phones, movies, photos. Consider how much of your life is centered around these advancements.
We live in an extremely different and short lived period of humanity, where people we end up putting in charge of important societal tasks speak as if things like the economy are laws of nature, despite existing in its current form for maybe 2-3 generations at most.
This poster is experiencing the culmination of these advancements. The alienation, the over stimulation, the speed at which life takes place. It's starting to show itself as a bit of a dead end as the ice caps melt away.
hell, when i was a kid a mobile phone was the size of a housebrick, could only make calls, and only if you happened to be in one of the few places that had decent service
now it's a tiny computer that fits in your pocket with more processing power than the best consumer PCs from 15 years ago
Seriously, I'm under thirty and already I feel old due to how much rapid change I've seen in my lifetime.
On the flip side, there's a lot of old stuff that is still super serviceable and useful and even nice. Like maybe we should go back in certain ways, and move forward in others.