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Originally Posted by Slayde
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What exactly didn't exist back then? People being assholes? or people NOT being assholes? Either I am misinterpreting what you said, or you are misinterpreting what I said.
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Originally Posted by Slayde
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... At some point in the past 20 years, the majority of the 1st world countries were reprogrammed to think only of themselves. ...
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"Individualism" & "Libertarianism" & other fancy dress-up rationalizations for plain old selfishness aren't new. Read up on "classical liberalism" and "the Irish question" sometime if you want to be horrified by people on the east side of the atlantic. I'm assuming you're at least vaguely aware of slavery, indentured servitude, perhaps you're less aware of the garment mill sweatshops in New York City in the early 20th century. Germany was a very first-world country when it kicked off WW2 and fired up industrial slavery & extermination camps. That incredibly short list barely begins to touch on the evils of the last few centuries, the overwhelming majority of them perpetrated by what you would call first world countries (who the hell do you think had the power to create vast colonial empires?) and most of that shit continued well into and even throughout the 20th century.
There has been no reprogramming of anything except the propaganda in the popular media. People are still people. Pretending that people were morally superior at some earlier date, any earlier date, is a disservice to yourself and to anybody else fooled by the delusion you propagate. The world is not improved by pretending that it used to be better, that's just a cop-out.