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"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this, at a distance of roughly ninety million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet, whose ape descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. This planet has, or had, a problem, which was this. Most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small, green pieces of paper, which is odd, because on the whole, it wasn't the small, green pieces of paper which were unhappy. And so the problem remained, and lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans."

I remember of one Sandman's comics opened with a shot of a medieval tavern, and an old geezer complaining that chimneys were the reason "kids these days" were weak, since they no longer breathed the fresh air of burnt wood inside their homes.

It's cool that the future kid has a scanner to see power levels

l don't wanna sound like an old man but I'm gonna say it, old times were better because you were young and free.

Depending on the context they might be right. Like, the internet of the mid and late 2010's was pretty much better than today and we'll never go back to that peak.

At some point though, isn't it likely that it's going to be a correct statement?

The boomers had it better. The end.

Good thing you skipped over the age of the Roman Empire because they certainly never said that older times were better.

There was a video on youtube about field surgery during the Napoleonic era (basically amputations without anesthetic) and I recall a funny comment someone said about forwarding the video to his friend who keeps saying he was born in the wrong era; the comment ended up annoying someone into posting about how 'born in the wrong era' refers to missing out on the cultural zeitgeist or whatever other nonsense.

Problem is, being born in the so called right era comes with all the baggage of inferior medicine and living standards; it's a package deal

Stop confusing future archeologist with memes of things that didn't happen(talking about that first square)

I DO NOT WANT THE WORLD TO BECOME LIKE THE FIRST ONE ITS ALREADY BAD ENOUGH

Okay but being a dinosaur is 10/10 you can chew on people you don't like

We are permanently out of touch, from the moment we are born. The world moves faster than we can adapt to it, so it is a known fact that we cling to whatever memories or notions that provide comfort. Some try to keep in motion, others actively detract on whatever may be changing, even if for the better.

The best moment to be born is right now, regardless the shit hole we are going through.

This meme promotes the capitalistic modernization theory that sees old traditions and pre-existing societies as "primitive" obstacles to overcome for economic growth, mass consumerism at the expense of the planet and anyone in it's way.

Modern conservatism says "instead of tearing a fence down maybe it's there for a reason" while relishing in the fear and seperation it creates

And many left-wing parties might say "let's tear the fence and neighborhood down to build a factory for a new gizmo to sell"

What we need is to tear down fences to rebuild strong communities and human relations.

Source: Sushi de Kriptonita: Saudomasoquismo

none of them are wrong

First panel: OK Zoomer