Clive Thompson on Nostr: "Everyone was so much nicer in the world when I was younger -- it's gone downhill ...
"Everyone was so much nicer in the world when I was younger -- it's gone downhill since"
Adam Mastroianni spent ten years studying why so many people have this feeling -- Hanna Rosin has a great Q&A with him here: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2023/07/are-you-plagued-by-the-feeling-that-everyone-used-to-be-nicer/674838/
FWIW, this isn't a feeling I've had
I remember childhood in the 70s and 80s being studded with regular cruelty and casual violence ...
... and that was in my comparatively safe middle class Canadian neighborhood!
Others, in less stable situations? hoo boy
Adam Mastroianni spent ten years studying why so many people have this feeling -- Hanna Rosin has a great Q&A with him here: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2023/07/are-you-plagued-by-the-feeling-that-everyone-used-to-be-nicer/674838/
FWIW, this isn't a feeling I've had
I remember childhood in the 70s and 80s being studded with regular cruelty and casual violence ...
... and that was in my comparatively safe middle class Canadian neighborhood!
Others, in less stable situations? hoo boy