Published on 12, July, 2020
I've borrowed this question from something intimated in another thread.
Do you think life has improved for you as you have grown older?
Is it because society has changed or you/your life have changed or a combination?
There was a comparison in another thread with 1980.
I realise some of the readers here won't even have been born then!
I could write a long list of ways in which my life has improved since 1980, both on a personal level and on a 'society' level.
Where 'society' is concerned, the invention of the internet has made me much less isolated, much more knowledgeable, much more in control of my health and not at the mercy of the NHS.
I wouldn't know about my autism and many other things without it.
Also, mobile phones/texting and email mean that I no longer have to make phone calls (including from phone boxes!).
I could go on but I might even bore myself.
There is really very little I miss about 1980, except perhaps a quieter pace of life in general.
It's an interesting question and we all have a past, no matter how far back it goes.
How is it for you.
Better or worse?
I find this era of Cancel Culture rather frustrating.
Comedy is a sanctuary for me and helps to keep me relatively sane. However, as the comedian David Baddiel said in a documentary about social media, all it takes is for a comedian to say one wrong thing and that's their comedy career over as a result of Cancel Culture.
There was a time when people seemed more willing to accept that comedy often involved pushing boundaries, particularly stand-up comedy. There are a lot of comedians I like, and also a lot that I don't because I find their style of humour offensive, or it just doesn't appeal to my own sense of humour. Do I think those comedians should be cancelled? No! I might not consider them amusing, but I know there will be plenty of other people that do.
I'm increasingly finding that much of the comedy on TV these days is just far too safe and bland for my liking.
I'm on record as saying I think when targeted at people with autism cancel culture is not just bad, it's often actually a form of discrimination.