@mchill saidLearning from the past, working out what lessons it can teach us, deciding which aspects of our inheritance from it we ought to cherish and preserve, which we should revive, if possible, and which we should repudiate, is however a very wise mindset.
I remember lots of folks my parents age saying the same thing about the 1950's. Living in the past is not a wise mindset.
I don't want to revive the homophobia and racism of the 1950s, but I think the economic settlement we had then - full employment, relative equality, one salary being sufficient to support a family - was about as good as the Western world ever got.
@wildgrass saidThere is no collective momentum of the many, only of the few powerful plutocrats. They use propaganda to manufacture consent for war and even who you vote for. You don't have a choice. You just think you do.
Why? I wasn't really thinking about it personally, I was thinking about our collective momentum as a country and a society.