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August 26, 2022 at 11:17 pm
(This post was last modified: August 26, 2022 at 11:40 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
Maybe religion confers more 'benefit' to believers than just civil guidance, laws, as you say. Or maybe religion is not a benefit in any secular sense and often enough entails voluntary personal hardships.
With respect to nostalgia, perhaps it is a function of age, but as a GenXer whose life exerpience straddles the purely analog and digital worlds, and watched from Nixon to now, I do believe some things in the past might have been better if they'd stayed they same...like everyone sending and paying bills in the mail rather than having a hundred different payment portals unique to each business entity and 3000 passwords with 2 step verification!...flibbity flue, I suppose. Times seemed simpler maybe because my life was less complex. I do think that was has happened to American families is a shame and I am discouraged that the a lot of people in the cultural class seem hellbent on relentlessly stoking racial animousity. Not that it has much to directly affect my private life and in reality I think the machines do not work for us anymore. The 1984 Apple ad was a lie. Most of us are just working for the machines now.
With respect to nostalgia, perhaps it is a function of age, but as a GenXer whose life exerpience straddles the purely analog and digital worlds, and watched from Nixon to now, I do believe some things in the past might have been better if they'd stayed they same...like everyone sending and paying bills in the mail rather than having a hundred different payment portals unique to each business entity and 3000 passwords with 2 step verification!...flibbity flue, I suppose. Times seemed simpler maybe because my life was less complex. I do think that was has happened to American families is a shame and I am discouraged that the a lot of people in the cultural class seem hellbent on relentlessly stoking racial animousity. Not that it has much to directly affect my private life and in reality I think the machines do not work for us anymore. The 1984 Apple ad was a lie. Most of us are just working for the machines now.
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