The Good Old Times - Bittersweet memories

Why can't you still drive comfortably at 90? Did you change your vehicle for a smaller one? ;c)

It's hard to argue with that list of past realities, as I understood and experienced them too.  If I could have remained in the 1990's, I think I "could have been a contender" ...... but the endless march of time and 'progress' has made me a sardonic and slightly depressive "stuff and nonsense" type.  It's odd how we morph into our "older human" way of thinking so seamlessly !

For me the late 90's was great. We had the Internet but only for serious people with pc's, no social media . Driving was great, almost no speed camers, no silly other restrictions with cameras, used to drive comftably at 90 on the motorway.  The world was a stable place, politicians resigned when pushed, people admitted they were wrong. We weren't a massively divided country, mass immigration had not made its impact.  GP's, dentists etc were easy to get, no big waits at a&e. House prices were affordable,  £50k for a flat in the south east, 100% mortgage on £18k. It was a better place then, people much more united.

Rob

The Empire is intentionally recreating history, so they can maintain whatever upper hand they have.

They sussed out that the way to destroy cohesive societies is to reexpose old ethnic fault lines. It's because they know that White people are descendants of Peasants. So, to achieve 'The Revolution' they had to make a Cadre amass wealth.

The Revolution = The lawlessness which allows The Man of Sin to enter the fray.

i don't think I ever seen a new age traveler. Just the old fasioned irish / romani kind. As far as I can tell even in the 90s they barely existed. I disagree with a lot of that.

I do however think globalisation is a creaping force that wants to homogonise sociaty to make it easyer to make a profit off and that it is working hard to controle goverments through lobbying and donations.

It's about turning every city in the world into New York. When I was in Paris, back in 2015, there was a Starbucks in virtually every street. It's called Empire Building.

The reason of possible conscription is because of Ca-moron. He wants to destroy the Tories, from within. Sleepwalking is into Dictatorship by LibLab.

Ultimately, it's because God is angry at us; for defying the Commandments. It began with Divorce, then the normalisation of Sex outside of Marriage, then came the domino effect. Now, we have Eastern Spirituality mandated; in the name of 'Mental Wellbeing'.

Those Illegal Ravers and New Age Travellers ended up becoming Teachers, Lecturers, Social Workers and Civil Servants. It was the long march through the institutions. They're the one who now wants us enslaved.

One of my most upsetting dreams is being back in time to just before my A level exams, with the horrifying thought that I had to go through all the crap of early adulthood again. So no, it wasn't better back in 1979, not for me. Of course, not having some of the chronic health issues I have now would be pleasant, but it would not outweigh the horrid discomfort I had just being me back then.

I Sperg said:

Going back to your original supposition that a bunch of Autists could form a coherent fighting force, I feel that our individual attempst to form a working film night, or in yrou case manga night, run a website or small refuge for the non-woke have spoken volumes about the essentially asocial nature of Autism.

I think a big issue is the initial contact and just the very high level of apathy. When a bunch of people with guns come, put you in a room with others and says, 'you have to work with these people to do X.' Apathy becomes less important and the initial contact is forced on you. At that point I think autistic people working with autistic people would make a big difrence, as oposed to a autistic with NTs.

I Sperg said:

BTW, do you notice industry and your governmenient rising to the challenge of us being independently productive (which brexit kinda demands) in order to compete in the world marketplace again? Do you notice any focussed effort to stimulate growth and productvity (as sure would happen if I was incharge) or establish any centres of innovation?

This countrys goverments haven't had a coherent industrial stratergy since before thatcher. They just left everywhere outside of london to the free market and let most of the manufactoring move overseas. So when brexit hit what was their plan? Make the uk a tax haven like monoco. It's all about london and the financial services industry to them.

I'm 27 now and do miss the good old days - i.e. when I was a child. Life was easy, carefree and the days felt endless and were always fun! Adulthood has been a worrisome time for me. I've had mental breakdowns, I'm watching my parents grow older and getting ill, and I don't enjoy life anymore, not like I used to anyway. Undoubtedly my good old days of childhood had bad moments too but there was more good than bad - adulthood is definitely more bad than good!

I think being autistic definitely makes it harder. For me I've noticed that the older I'm getting the more difficult I find life. My life consists of films, meltdowns, anxiety and frequent hospital admissions. I frequently wonder what life would be like if I wasn't autistic.

I was born in the late 90s. I could easily talk about the good old days but then I was younger, more innocent, and oblivious. 

Were things better for the world in the early 2000s? Both yes and no. 

I learned about the power of T.V. to influence ones mind when I was about 7, when a T.V programme I'd watched before taught me something that simply did not work at all well in the playground!

I can't remember what it was but but the shock at the time of the disconnect between T.V. and reality caused me to instantly vow never to trust OR VALUE the T.V. sets output again.

IN my teens I learned a bit about psychology and how the human mind works which primed me well, for when I learned about mass mind control technciques. (A.K.A. why a ten second T.V. slot cost several hundred thousand pounds) in the eighties. 

I can't explain very well, but I have come to almost "intuit" when someone is trying to control me from close up or from afar. And during Brexit there was so much "hidden persuading" going on that I was sure the remainers would walk it home. 

I actually had an issue with my tear ducts when the vote came in, not because I wanted "out of Europe" at all, I was fully committed to admittting I am "too stupid to have a valid politcal opinion" at that point and disegaged to the maximum, but the public voted the wrong way!!  For once the mind control stuff, didn't work properly!

I might be somewhat Apolitical, but when "Brexit" happened it looked like the mighty British public "just said no" to being herded easily, for once. It was that unknowing but very real mass act of rebellion that bought a tear of hope for the future to my eye that day. 

BTW, do you notice industry and your governmenient rising to the challenge of us being independently productive (which brexit kinda demands) in order to compete in the world marketplace again? Do you notice any focussed effort to stimulate growth and productvity (as sure would happen if I was incharge) or establish any centres of innovation?

Which after all is what we are remarkably good at in Britain, alwasy have been. (It gave us our empire!)

No. the best our current system of Gpvernance can offer us is: War with Russia and possible conscription!!

Going back to your original supposition that a bunch of Autists could form a coherent fighting force, I feel that our individual attempst to form a working film night, or in yrou case manga night, run a website or small refuge for the non-woke have spoken volumes about the essentially asocial nature of Autism.

I'll go first:

Whilst I understand a lot about socialisation and family and bonds and obligatiions, and agree that all of these are (should be) good things, and I even want to be able to give and receive love, as soon as it gets too "social" I just want to go and hide. 

I think describes the Autistic experience for all.

When confronted here with "their peoeple" en-masse, Autism far from making people bond and inspiring unity, seems to actually make a lot of them become "DELETED USER"... 

I Sperg said:

Item 4: Little businesses are a morass of compliance and accounting and ever changing legislation, all of which takes energy and vitality out of the busness. All businees advice is gered to is getting you loaded up with debt, aftyer all, how can you pay all those fees and stuff that decend on you without money?

I'm not even talking about buisnesses. Even small local charaties and small art projects have these issues. You can't even have a jumbel sale with out incuring paperwork.

I Sperg said:

There is rebellion alright, but it's more organic and simmering. I notice that "voting" now longer works s it used to, people are not voting as they are told to like they used to be. We are actually getting harder to handle than we used to be, that's why the medfia at davos announced that they "have lost ownership of the facts" whatever you take from that... Brexit was the turning point, it was a protest vote seen around the world for what it was

Well yes and no. UKIP spent 25 ish years getting a brexit refurendum and never won a single seat in parlament. People are willing to protest vote but your only real power as a protest party is in making the other side loose. You need to be able to controle the media narative to some degree to do that, to keep a simple issue the main parties disagree with you on at the top of the agenda, which ukip did briliently well.

Item 3::

No one rebels openly now. It's not possible to organise like it used to be, we all think we know what's coming down the pike, and surviving it, depends entirely on the individual and no longer on "Charismatic leaders" who we've now learned to distrust as much as the other sort. 

I personally like the idea of non-violent rebellion, which is what we do seem to have, a rebellion of ideas. I know of at least two peoeple who do stickers and leafletting, to try and wake people up to the more egregrious lies and omissions our leaders feed us via our fully captured media.

If one cannot belive that to be true there is an excellent set of videos out there where someone has compiled literally tens possibly 100's of our media outlets all presenting exactly the same messages, word for word,in lockstep,  no dissent or diversity of reporting to be seen at all.   

Currently there is a lot of talk about how to resist more effectvely in actual clashes between the peoples and the agents of authorty. There may well be a move afoot away from rioting with brcks and fireworks to the use of marbles and greases to make baton charges less effectvie and more comical, people who thought that the vaccination campaigns were hurting people (bizzare, eh?) started gluing op the locks to make it harder to get them open. And speed cameras of course, most haven't actually worked for years after people started setting them on fire etc. making them more expensive to keep going than the fines they were bringing in... 

There is rebellion alright, but it's more organic and simmering. I notice that "voting" now longer works s it used to, people are not voting as they are told to like they used to be. We are actually getting harder to handle than we used to be, that's why the medfia at davos announced that they "have lost ownership of the facts" whatever you take from that... Brexit was the turning point, it was a protest vote seen around the world for what it was.

A BIG FAIL on the part of the "hidden persuders" who used to have much better control over us.

We in England once had the best of everything. As one prime minister put it "you never had it so good". It's been very instructive watching us lose everything that made us "great". 

Item 4: Little businesses are a morass of compliance and accounting and ever changing legislation, all of which takes energy and vitality out of the busness. All businees advice is gered to is getting you loaded up with debt, aftyer all, how can you pay all those fees and stuff that decend on you without money?

E.G. To insure my van and collect scrap, I need 2 grand up fornt for the insurance, a basic waste transfer licence and I'm competing against the Romanians who don't do any of that, and don't get stopped and checked as thouroughly or oten as we do... 

The big difrence I see between now and then ... socially I mean, the tech difrences are too numerious to mention, but socially:

1. Wokism is a thing. I don't mean political correctness. That was around in the 90s. But it was mostly only in profesional settings. In culture and social settings it wasn't a thing. Now the forces that be seem to be intent at banishing 'wrong think' from the media and even our social lifes (as seen in social media).
2. People no longer seem to value privercy and freedom. They are so used to facebook etc telling them what they can and can't say and collecting their data it doesn't seem to bother them when the goverment does the same thing.
3. The only rebbels left seem to be eco protestors and frankly its a huge disapointment. The 90s had ravers and anarchists. People conserned with human beings as well as trees.
4. We're so safty consicious and burocratic that it's basicly imposable to get anything started up these days unless you're some big orgonisation. For instance just try renting a space with out personal liability insurance these days. It stops the little guy doing something creative and keeps things corperate.
5. sociaty seems to have gone from celibrating female sexuality with girl power to vilifing male sexuality. #metoo went further than just shining a light on abuse it painted all men as rapists and male sexuality as inherintly destructive.
6. People complain that children stay in doors all the time but freek out at the idea of letting them play in the street or catch a bus on their own. Teenagers seem to be becoming progresivly infantalised. They've gone from adults in training free to explore the world at the end of long apron strings to incapable of even using a website with out some kind of safeguarding.

Black Monday.

Have you noticed, that all those best years that people say they had was always when they were young. The advantage of youth is that you can be blissfully ignorant about the struggles everyone is having, so it never effects you the same way it affects older people. 

The past is a two edged sword, on one hand it gives you fond memories that you wish was still here. on the other hand it hid horrors that that you may never know. The benefit of hindsight tells me, that the reason I never knew I was autistic, was because nobody else knew either. and the pain and stress that I and others like me went through, was all caused by ignorance. 

The more we learn, the more we can help prevent suffering, not just for people on the spectrum but for those that we don't realise yet are suffering. Yes remember the past with a smile but strive for tomorrow, because tomorrow doesn't just bring understanding, it brings hope.

I was born in 1971, so were from the same era.

The 1980's was a great decade to grow up in - a lot happened during those 10 years.
Yes, were young and carefree without the too many worries, maybe not so for our parents - especially those that had to endure financial struggles after the stock market crash in 1987.

I'll create a new discussion about growing up in the 1980's.

I was born in 1977 and came of age in the 90s. I look back on those times as being carefree, happy and almost idyllic. There was no social media, phones or anything that we have now. Life was simpler, less complicated, and living in the moment was easier to do as there were no distractions to life. Maybe we were living a life of ignorance, but it was easier. 

Yes, autism reframes the past and how I lived, but that does not diminish the joy those years brought me. I feel sad that life for my children won't be that easy, like being able to buy a house, or go to uni. 

I am glad I lived when I did though.

It’s often nostalgia but sometimes it’s true. Depends on the time and location. Things were better in some places than they are now for sure, but for many, things have got a whole lot better. My Great Grandmother told me when I was about 11 I think how WW2 devastated not just the country but the entire world and how bad things were when she was a child. She said the worst was how the toilet was in a shed at the back of the garden lol and that schools were able to physically discipline you. 

She's the only person who never told me how good the old days were. She liked the here and now.

A lot of the problem now is social media. It gives everyone a voice. They can say what they like and online there's little consequence. It's not policed as well as it should be. And of course bad news such as wars and the like are reported continuously 24 hours a day, no escaping it if you spend all your time on social media. Throughout school I was on social media but in my last year I gave it up because it was thoroughly depressing me and I just thought "Why am I even on this?". I don't miss it. It had a bad atmosphere and I don't need that in my life.

My Great Grandmother and always impressed by how good houses are, how advanced healthcare was and how it was easier to get about with cars and how easy it was to buy things with online shopping and digital banking. The world has its problems, it always has and it sadly always will but the here and now for me is what counts. I try to ignore news and focus on my life and not look back. I'm looking forward.

You are an aware dude, Caleus......for a youngster!