(08-29-2017, 04:54 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(08-29-2017, 04:33 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: What does this even mean? And I'm being serious.

It means that people who have such rosy memories of the past are fortunate (privileged) to have been in a position where those memories are happy ones. It's a privilege that not everyone shares, and those who are changing the present DON'T have the same nostalgia for the past that some do. And it's past time that people who cry to restore the past be confronted with the cold, hard reality that people were disenfranchised so they could have that happy lifestyle and now it's time for payback! So get to the self-flagellation over the past already.

How old are you? I don't mean that in a demeaning way, just wanting to know what decade your formative years were. I was born in 1972 so what I call my formative years were the 80's. 

I agree that people need to understand there were folks who suffered so others could live prosperously. The problem is with your own verbiage. Payback. The folks you are vowing payback on had nothing to do with the suffering of the aforementioned folks. Didn't have the slightest idea what was going on because we were kids/young adults in a world that didn't have the ability to learn the way we do now through technology. Keep using words like payback and you will never achieve anything other than division. 

You do realize that people weren't born into their lives of their choosing, right? How we were raised, who taught us what, where we were raised geographically, the morals and values we were taught (or in some cases the lack thereof.) Our foundations were laid out for us and built upon as we grew up. Society in our early years shapes how we will view things the rest of our lives, even if on a small scale. I was one of those people who swore up and down I would always be up with the times, always be rolling with whatever was happening around me, would never sound like my parents about "how back in the day." The thing is, you can't help it. And us older folks grew up in very small worlds where we only knew what we were told by our friends in the neighborhood and at school, parents, teachers, the Big Three news channels, the local paper, and the entertainment industry. All of this was very localized. There was no global anything other than the Olympics and the Cold War or Vietnam. 

Some stay in their little bubble world and never actually learn anything about people, places and things that are different than they are. They don't even want to or it never occurs to them to do so. Some, like myself, go out and experience all kinds of different people, places and things that (hopefully) broaden our views of the world. I am a lot more open minded than most people think and more than many of my friends care for me to be. My husband was born and raised in the county we live in. He's lived in two houses in his 46 years on earth. He was very narrow minded when we married but I have been able to show him that things are not always what they seem and he's beginning to understand how much he doesn't know and is willing to listen even if we end up agreeing to disagree on some issues. 

THIS is where we need to be as a society. Everyone is not going to agree on whatever issue is currently stirring people up. Sometimes we need to be willing to agree to disagree and move on. If it's an issue that needs to be addressed and 'worked on' then we need to be willing to listen to all sides and work toward a resolution that doesn't involve violence.

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