pleroma.debian.social

@elilla I'm a kid of the 90's. We had a very, very different perspective. When I was 7 years old, the Berlin wall fell and the cold war ended. Shortly after my 8th birthday, Apartheid ended in South Africa (where I live). From there onward, computers advanced at an astonishing pace. The Internet went from something that sounded cool on TV to something that were commonplace...

@elilla On Star Trek we saw a possible future where technology could solve all of our problems and turn Earth into paradise. At the same time cell phones became commonplace. Sure, there was some concern about Y2K, but also the world was on an economical upswing that we didn't think would end. At the same time there were these wonderful millennium development goals being announced, promising an upward trajectory that would continue more than a decade.

@elilla We were told that we could be anything we want. Doctors, lawyers, engineers, artists, the world was open for us and we could just take it.

@elilla We believed that the old racist grannies and uncles would eventually die out, and that racism would be a distant memory (yes, in hindsight we were somewhat naive) and that the terrible old gaurd would eventually be replaced by younger, more progressive people.

@elilla Instead, my generation got saddled with student debt and medical bills. And leadership? It's effectively the SAME harmful people who are busy destroying the world not only since we've been kids, but pretty much since we're born. Half of us are angry, and want change. Half of us have turned into their parents, who want things to go back to "the good old days" not really having much comprehension about the world.