>as write this I am laying in my bed with a laptop that is vastly superior in every way to the most advanced technology of ten years ago
>Me and my family were able to eat all three meals today for under 20 including groceries
>my home is air conditioned and suffers no real serious structural damage
>i can talk to any person around the world with a super computer that fits in the palm of my hand that also contains every piece of human history and knowledge and gives me porn
>meeting women is as easy as talking to them and asking them to dinner or even just finding them online via dating sites and tinder
>i am not in constant worry over soldiers marching down my streets or bombs being dropped on my head
>my country consistently produces mass culture and entertainment at a rate to where I never need to be bored
These are just a few, some minuscule some more important, of the things that make living in the western world os amazing. That list could easily go on for miles. And honestly I live a pretty average if not below average lifestyle for an American. I don;t suspect life is so drastically different for people in western Europe, Canada, or even - dare I say it - Australia.
I'm just saying that even with all the crap going on in the world, how is this not the best time to be alive? I don't mean to say there isn't room for improvement, but damn, I wouldn't want to trade my place in history with anyone else.
Thoughts /pol/?
>inb4: white privilege doesn't exist you faggot
>inb4: hurr durr but this country has this problem and these oppressors
TL:dr? - Long live the West.
>>75621451
>How is this not the best time ever (for the Western World)
Life satisfaction is down, our government doesn't represent us, white birthrates going down, being forced to pay for shit that doesn't benefit anyone,
>>inb4: white privilege doesn't exist you faggot
Nobody said dick about this but you.
Kys
Studies indicate that humans are happiest when they attempt to do things that are difficult.
Having a high standard of living, strangely enough, is more likely to leave you unfulfilled and empty inside.
I would gladly trade my long life and material safety to live during the American Revolution, to fight in the campaign to end slavery, to land at Normandy, or settle the frontier.
1. non whites
2. shit economy
3. dead culture
there what do I win?
>>75621998
>Life satisfaction is down, our government doesn't represent us, white birthrates going down, being forced to pay for shit that doesn't benefit anyone,
Life satisfaction really falls back on the individual wouldn't you say? we elected our government to that position and things are still fine. Birthrates being down has more to do with abortion and young hipsters not marrying - again an exercise of personal liberty.
>>inb4: white privilege doesn't exist you faggot
what the hell do you think inb4 is for asshole?
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>>75622036
So what I'm just an anomaly because I actually enjoy life and the advanced age we live in?
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>>75621451
Well, this is one complex thought terminating cliche.
>>75622475
>>75622325
Chinese foreign housing speculation.
Why on earth are we allowing this?
>>75622567
It's the only way boomers can make money anymore now that they outsourced every job to China.
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>>75622507
not going to argue we have problems, but what is your opinion exactly? That this is, in fact, NOT the best time to be alive, or that you think there are better places within the world today? If so, where?
>>75621451
this is basically the 60's redux except shittier
>>75622672
boomers are in retirement
>>75622445
Strictly speaking, yes.
That said I can't wait for it to all come crashing down on you.
>>75622036
>that's right goy being poor actually makes your happy!
>>75622793
I'll still be better off than the rest of the world.
>>75621451
It is good for those that grab the bull by it's horns. Unfortunately our culture has been crippled by autism, socialism, and multiculturalism.
>>75622766
which is why they make money of high real estate prices
>>75622766
like I said
1. dead culture/society
2. shit economy
3. full of non whites
how is that hard to understand?
Maybe if you left the white suburbs you would understand.
>>75623061
Right, there's definitely a fight to keep things from getting worse, and then help them to get better. I get why people criticize the west and the country because there are many glaring issues, but hell at the end of the day where else would you want to be?
Maybe I'm just optimistic idk
>>75623209
How is their making money off high real estate prices a bad thing?
I actually live in the city.
>>75621451
THE WHITE RACE IS DYING.
ISLAM IS SPREADING.
>>75623304
hmm let's see so wages are flat
(see >>75622274)
yet real estate prices are going up meaning either
1. you have to spend all your paycheck on rent
or
2. you have to go into debt to afford rent
yeah I don't see how that could "possibly" be a problem for working class millennials. Nope that seems fine.
>>75623528
you could always manage your life better too. I don't know too much about Canadian real estate, but I imagine you're building up something of a straw man. Are all their houses listed that terribly? if so, id like to point out that canada is quickly receding from the west as they become more and more socialist.
>>75621451
We've been made weak by comfort. Summer children, water-fat.
>>75621451
Don't bother OP, these idiots still think Western society is declining when there is clearly no such thing.
If you were to travel back in time to 100 years ago, kidnap a group of people and take them to today, they wouldn't want to go back.
"You mean I get all this technology, medicine that can cure and prevent most serious ailments, amazing entertainment, and all I have to do is put up with idiots on TV saying I'm equal to niggers?"
>>75623951
>you could always manage your life better too
sure you can
people are now forced to live in co ops in cities to afford rent
you know like they did in the Great Depression or in Maoist China. Hows that for a "high standard of living"?
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/realestate/the-millennial-commune.html
>>75624237
Alright well if its so shitty here where do you want to go?
>>75621451
I want to marry and live a long uneventful life.
Can't have that anymore thank to no-fault divorce.
Can't even make sure the kid is mine in France, it's illegal.
>>75621451
>porn
dropped
>>75621451
>meeting women is as easy as talking to them and asking them to dinner or even just finding them online via dating sites and tinder
lol no it isn't famalam
>>75624573
Nowhere. We want to stay here, and we want the West not to be a shithole. It used to be better than this.
>>75627489
Just don't bother OP is part of the problem, redpill and move on. Don't acknowledge his delusion.
