https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbe-35_BaA
This is a 7/11 in 1987 in the middle of the night. Note the energy, humor and sense of excitement in their community in a place as simple as a gas station. Everybody there is smiling and in a great mood.
What changed, /pol/?
>also reposting some videos from last thread
>continued from >>69711715
9/11
>>69740627
Keep it going, this is good shit.
>I know that feel american bro's, i miss the old Ireland, where we were dirt poor no nasty non whites and our weekends were spent at donkey derbies,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XtVm8z28e4
>>69740746
keepin it rolling famalam
>>69740627
People back then thought we were going to have flying cars and robot butlers serving us on our vacations to the Moon.
Instead we got the internet serving us dank memes on social media.
sage and report this shit thread, fucking cancer
>>69740627
Ok, I'm this cunt:
>>69738645
AMA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0B9y4DoZZQ
>>69740627
this is posted like every week now. Get over it. If we keep dwelling on the past then we just doom the future.
>>69740838
most people will choose being comfy and social over being ambitious and lonely.
>>69740848
This topic and that particular video come up a lot on /pol/, but it's no where near as cancerous as other threads; trump generals in particular.
![1459202075962[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/96FdV3F.png "1459202075962[1].png")
>>69740627
Taken From the other thread:
Ahh, I remember the times when the bar was set lower for children so they could actually be happy in their childhood.
I met my cousin and his parents are all like
"YOU GOTTA SIGN UP FOR THE HONOR SOCIETY OR COLLEGES ARE GONNA REJECT YOU!"
"THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT OF YOUR LIFE, SO DO YOUR BEST AND STUDY 25 HOURS A DAY"
This is why we have rodgerings TBQH. Kids get stressed, to relieve the stress they shittalk eachother, one kid becomes the school punching bag, and then you know what happens.
This is also why electronics and hedonism/"slut culture" is so popular. If you're stressed and your life sucks because of stress, why wouldn't you want to escape into a fantasy or have as much fun/sex as possible?
>Reply:
It's hilarious because all of this only sets you up to be another good little cog in the machine, not mention stress you out of any hopes or dreams or true happiness. Ironically, if instead of all that bullshit you started working at 16 or so, even with minimum wage, by the time you're 24 (when everyone else is graduating with a masters degree and 6 figures of debt) you could probably have a good $250k saved up and invested earning you an actual liveable passive income and could go ahead and retire right then and never do another meaningful day's work in your life if you didn't choose too .
All it takes is the capitalist mentality rather than the good goy/wagecuck slave mentality, afraid to strike out on their own path.
>Reply to Reply:
The whole goal of the school system currently is to chew kids up and spew them out as uniformly-performing worker drones, not successful people. They do this by putting down smart kids and pulling up the lazy/stupid kids. (Pic related) And it's not the system's fault, the economy is crap. It would be better to raise a generation of souless, but hardworking, zombies, than to take a risk and maybe have <10% of kids be somewhat successful.
>>69740838
I wonder what the sci-fi writers I used to mainline would think of today.
Heinlein would be pissed.
Clarke would love it.
Asimov would...I have no idea actually.
I wish Hunter S Thompson was still around.
>>69740848
>trying to make america worse
low energy dude
this thread is
=== comfy zone ===
no low-energy individuals beyond this point
also vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSyj8wy7Pqk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt_T6wfwXDg
im the austrian from the previous thread
reporting in for feels
>>69740473
>>69740676
I am this degenerate.
>>69740752
You don't need any money when the entire block is partying together.
>>69741167
>>69741067
Orwell would be mad, He'd realize how far off he was in detail, but how close he was fundamentally with his writings such as 1984 and whatnot.
Can we just keep this thread going forever with that video as the subject? Comfy as fuck.
>>69740627
MAGA!
>>69740627
Cameras weren't that common back then and being filmed was associated with being on TV. It was a pretty fucking neato.
Now being filmed or having a camera is very common and therefore people aren't super stoked to get filmed.
>I was born in 1999 the thread
>>69740627
If you want a real answer.
The 90's saw the end of the Cold War, and what everyone thought was going to be a new era of peace and prosperity in our lifetime. There was an economic boom starting in 1990 that was the longest lasting in history. It all ended on 9/11. Constant unending war was back and the economic boom was over. 90's were just a better time, there was everything to look forward to.
>>69741394
>Cameras weren't that common back then and being filmed was associated with being on TV. It was a pretty fucking neato.
seems plausible, also the fact that these people were all partying / on drugs / etc
Do you remember your childhood, /pol/?
Do you remember your 5th grade classroom?
Do you remember your favorite food?
Do you remember the smell of a rainy day at recess?
nothing changed what are you talking about
mfw about to bundle up and get comfy in this thread
saturday night mothafuckas
90's were shitty, you can only be reminiscent of old times and since it was your childhood. The 90's were more or less the same , same amount of racial tensions but current day is better because technology is better and women look better.
>>69741462
Every dad in America had a camcorder
>>69740734
This, i have noticed A LOT of shit changed on that day, people drive more recklessly, more impatient, and a shit load more scared
>>69741587
Exactly, unless you had a shitty upbringing you could trust your dad.
You can't trust someone like this, especially when they can't broadcast their video to the entire world at the press of a button.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMxsSj3EHIY
>>69741366
We're in a very strange 'Brave New World of 1984' just now.
>>69740918
If anyone wants a story, ask but it's nearly bedtime in bongland
>>69741462
>on drugs
No, these people actually seem pretty normal. They're acting like how me and my friends acted before we realized how LIFE NOWADAYS IS SHIT.
WHY IS TECHNOLOGY MUNDANE? WHY DOES ANYTHING THAT WOULD'VE BEEN FUCKING MINDBLOWING TO PEOPLE A FEW YEARS AGO LOSE IT'S NOVELTY AFTER A FEW FUCKING HOURS?
9/11 was an occult ritual that made the hole to universe B wider. That's why everything went to shit so fast and so noticably. You can tell me to go back to /x/ all you like, but if you did even an hour of open minded research, you would realize this.
IYOUIYOUIYOUIYOUIYOUIYOUIYOUIYOUIOYUIYOUIYOUIYOUIYOUIYOUIYOU
The Empire Never Ended.
>>69741425
Its more than that. Block parties were a weekly thing, every restaurant and bar was full and Everyone was communal. Now everyone hates each other
>>69740627
I've been browsing /pol/ since 2013 and have seen this exact thread with this video numerous times. Why? .
>>69741462
>the 80's
>people weren't on drugs and partying
You can't be this delusional the 80's were fucking insane everyone was on coke back then.
Please stop reminiscing about a time you didn't live through.
>>69741799
I smell the Mandela Effect
>>69741769
We're used to having a stream of information constantly blasted at us so things become pretty uninteresting pretty quickly, of course things tend to lose novelty as one gets older anyway.
>>69741811
>Block parties
Damn. The memories.
>>69741841
It's funny how the government was so focused on shutting down pot heads they let cocaine go right under nose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l06KEWCcnQE
>>69741799
Once you start researching this it get spooky real quick. I remember the handful of wiccans at my shool stayed silent and knew what was happening
>>69741587
The first camcorder was released in the mid 80's what are you talking about.
>>69741860
Gnosticism 101, actually. There is no salvation, but you aren't alone.
>>69741799
Tell me more, Putin.
>>69741587
They were big as fuck and a pain in the ass to actually use. Having a camcorder and using a camcorder happened at different rates.
>>69741799
Source.
I'm genuinely interested so if there's a youtube video pertaining to this theory, I'd love to see it.
>>69741933
I cant even find a fucking recording of a block party its all blacks on youtube.
>>69741974
>literally like 2 fat kids
dafuq happened merica'?
>just heated up some PBJ sandwiches in the microwave
>got some ice cold milk in a cup
>about to sit down to this comfy as fuck thread
who /comfy/ here
lurkers post too
>>69740918
>>69741753
can you provide me with a few options? any stories you ahve would be great tbqh
Thank you, mysterious OP for continuing a thread I originally thought nobody would care about.
>>69742432
leisure
>>69740848
fuck off. the endless trump generals, "is x degenerate", "pol BTFO", "dindu nuffins", and "fall of western civilization" threads get boring after awhile.
>>69740956
it was posted like an hour ago, just exchanging theories, vids, and stories now
>>69741753
Here's one I made earlier
>be inna Zambia
>be working and living like a kang.
>get talking to poor black guy who sells fruit by the road. Buy an apple from him most mornings.
>poor dude proves he can keep time.
>I let him wash a shirt for 1 (Zambia bucks) He brings it back immaculate.
>We speak over a few weeks. He is reliable and can turn up.
>Business X needs a night watchman. You're it. Don't fuck up.
>tears of joy. His family invite me for dinner. Sit in hut and have pile of brown kids worship me because now they can go to school.
>different story
The SAS is the largest regiment in the British army. Every pub has at least one old fuck who says they were a member.
Sandy was different though. He'd never say it but other people said it about him. Sandy was in his seventies when I knew him. He drank exactly four beers a day then went home.
He would appear at 13:40 and be gone about 18:00.
He didn't talk much which as a bar man is ok.
Sandy didn't come in one Tuesday. Didn't think anything of it. He didn't show for a week, then a month. I heard six weeks or so later the police found him dead in his flat.
Heart attack.
No family, no friendly neighbours, no idea what he saw or did.
Fuck mortality.
>>69742432
>>69742579
There's nothing comfy about this. All the powers of the earth want to exterminate our kind and they're obviously rapidly advancing, and we don't know how to resist. How can we make America, let alone the world, great again if we can't make ourselves great again?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLhxonPXmDY
>>69742579
>NSW
ay word up
>>69741366
Why are redditors always talking about George Orwell? The only thing in the world today that is truly Orwellian is North Korea. The spread of mass surveillance bears only the most passing resemblance to anything in 1984.
By calling everything Orwellian you people have reduced the word to meaninglessness.
>>69742716
Its hard to be obese in Colorado there is just to much to do outdoors here
>>69742726
i don't know
let's talk about it
get /comfy/
>>69740627
Shit like this still happens, most of you guys were just extremely asocial when you were that age.
presumably many of you were this age AT THAT TIME and still never experienced something like that
>>69742726
The US had a revolution once before.
You can do it again.
No president will ever set you free.
As long as you keep playing the game,
you're hopelessly enslaved.
>>69742848
Wattup Colorado bro, Colorado Springs here. You?
>>69740956
When we forget the past, we forget when things were better, and so we become willing to accept less from the future.
^^ THEY ^^ (you KNOW who) want to you to forget that there was ever more to life than alienation.
>>69740627
This made me kinda sad. People today are zombies,always with their heads down on their cellphones and ignoring everything around them. I can only see our future getting worse...
>>69742489
>Can a mature, well-rounded, sexually / romantically experienced male give advice to a beta, introverted asspie please.
That spaghetti..
Ok. Here it is anon.
This chick is a lost cause but, and this is something people forget, there are more women out there. Get fit, learn from the experience.
If you're as aspie as you say, chances are she's a level twenty character, you don't pit level ones against that now do you?
Level up a bit first.
>>69742953
Westminster
>>69742842
Cause it's not like mass surveillance ruining everybody's lives was the entire theme of 1984 or anything.
>>69740627
HIGH ENERGY
>>69740627
This country has become so fucking fat it is an internal embarrassment. Normal people were so fucking skinny back then compared to today, if you walked into any gas station now you'd be hardpressed NOT to find some fat fuck.
This country has become kind of grotesque nightmare. If you are not truly disgusted walking around then you're a stronger man than i.
>>69743054
keep
them
coming
BRUH
>>69743140
confirmed
>>69742096
>>69742390
Mark Passio/Michael Tsarion/Philip K. Dick/ Robert Anton Wilson.
Read up on your Gnosticism and mystery traditions.
In the olden times this was referred as to getting Green Pilled
>>69742842
Have you actually read the book recently boss?
Breakdown of the family unit.
Rewriting history.
Thought police.
Newspeak.
>>69740627
They were probably on coke. I know the younger dude in the blue shirt was definitely on coke. You could see him tweaking out a little.
I graduated high school in 1986, AMA.
>>69743280
do you have firsthand experience with people on coke? is that how they act usually?
>>69742842
The NSA is spying on us too, retard.
>>69741587
>every dad in America had a camcorder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAC3F5dQufQ
lol, you need to get out more often. most drunk people are friendly.
go to any convenience store on a friday night with a bunch of drunkards and everyone will seem very friendly.
>>69743336
are you happy?
married?
what do you do for a living?
how much do you make (if you don't mind sharing)?
how often do you browse /pol/?
do you think the world has actually changed for the worse, or are people just exaggerating? if so, in what way? if not, why?
how much hair do you have left and, if you're going bald, do people really treat you differently than when you had hair?
TRUMP 2016???
thanks bro
>>69743270
Thank you UK. I just read it a month ago.
Mass surveillance is just part of 1984. It is just one of many themes/ plot elements in the story. Yelling out "Orwellian" every time you see mass surveillance just dilutes the usefulness of the term; now you have spergs going around shouting "Orwellian" because muh surveillance is the only thing they got out of reading the book back in middle school.
Nothing in your life is fucking Orwellian; not even the govt watching you jerk off to dudes.
reminder that "gangster rap" would not be invented for another year.
>>69741023
I'd say a big change that's made the trend in the education system even worse is the trend of removing what some call "unstructured time" at home. Growing up in the 80s and 90s, as far as our parents were concerned as long as we had our chores and homework done we were basically "leash-less" the rest of the day.
That's not to say stuff was never planned - we'd go with our grandma to bingo night once or twice a month, I'd have scouts once a week, and we'd have family nights out and shit, but my sisters and I spent, I would guess, 90% of our time outside of school just doing... whatever. We'd play with games and toys indoors, go outside and run around, tromp around the woods for hours, bike across town, yadda yadda yadda.
On a typical afternoon if my sisters went outside to play our parents would have no fucking idea where we were or what we were doing for like four or five hours with no way of getting in touch with us. Hell I didn't get a cell phone until... fuck, '98 I think? I would have been 12 or 13. And the phone was just so I could call if there was an emergency. I think they called me on it like six times over 2-3 years.
You NEVER seee parents give their kids that much free reign anymore. They're fucking terrified. Letting your kid walk to school by themselves? No way! Letting them play outside without supervision? Not likely! Everything's structured and scheduled for kids these days. They've got maybe an hour a day where they don't have some after school activities or a club or a sport or some shit. That's no way to grow up.
That video is the american dream.
Too bad the country is now full of obnoxious fatties.
>>69743337
Yes. Very chatty and the dude in blue literally could not stay still. His face was always making some kind of expression or in automated movement., easily approachable.
Nobody normal was like this in the 80s-early 90s. If you were, you were probably on coke, and EVERYONE was on coke those days
>>69741517
>tfw nopig
>>69742579
Easiest is probably to say 'do you want a sad or happy one?'
>>69743054
You're a narcissistic sociopath
>>69743666
>>69741527
90's were awesome. Fast cars, street racing before the Fast and the Furious series came out and ruined it. Every kid with a honda civic thought he was Paul Walker and ended up killing themselves. Fucking cops had no choice but to crack down on it.
>>69743429
They were coked up, not drunk. Unless both...
>>69740627
Whenever I look back
On the best days of my life
I think I saw them all on T.V.
I am so homesick now for
Someone that I never knew
I am so homesick now for
Someplace I will never be
Time won't let me go
Time won't let me go
If I could do it all again
I'd go back and change everything
But time won't let me go
I never had a 'Summer of 69'
Never had a Cherry Valance of my own
All these precious moments
You promised me would come in time
So where was I when I missed mine?
Time won't let me go
Time won't let me go
If you gave me back those years
I'd do it all better I swear
Time won't let me go
Ba ba ba ba ba...
If I could go back once again
I would change everything, yeah
If I could go back once again
I'd do it all so much better
Time won't let me go
Time won't let me go
If I could do it all again
I'd go back and change everything
But you won't ever let me go
Ba ba ba ba ba...
>>69743729
how long do you have?
sad first
happy second
>>69742045
What is the higher purpose of /pol/ memes? Do they counteract eggregorisation or are they part of the memeconomy?
>>69743257
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeIVz9lCZqQ
>>69743754
>You're a narcissistic sociopath
what makes you say that serbro?
>>69740627
Clinton, Bush Jr., Obama, and about a thousand attacks by the religion of peace hadn't happened yet
>>69743920
I was replying to the love shy British aspie. He had a couple of meaningless interactions with a female coworker and blew it out of proportion. Deleted his post.
>>69743435
No happy, not sad, just living life.
I've been divorced for 20 years.
I'm a manufacturing supervisor.
I made 97k last year.
I'm on /pol/ every day.
The world is the same, some of the faces are different, but the problems are the same.
I have about 75% of my hair, no difference.
Anyone but Trump.
>>69744118
yeah I know
just wondering if you were legitimately calling him a psycho or just casually calling him out on sperging
I agree with you though about blowing them out of proportion
the new video for anyone who is curious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8n11y2lxrE&feature=youtu.be
>>69744154
Youre just a sad sack
>>69744154
>Anyone but Trump.
>I've been divorced for 20 years.
why didn't it work out?
>>69744304
I made the mistake of getting married just because I was having a kid with someone. Never do that.
>>69740627
The spirit of the time changed and all men embody the spirit of the time.
>>69744373
how long were you together?
>>69744208
>>69744208
Yeah, I have a friend like him. He wasn't always like that. After years of deliberation with other buddies we came to a conclusion - he's just an asshole, just like the aforementioned anon.
>>69742704
>>69743808
There's a couple to start.
I guess this one is nice.
Have my own place for a couple years. Posh girl, flat mate, his GF and me. I put some effort in, redecorated, had some fish, the place looked great.
One night, I think flat-mate bro's birthday, my friend comes to visit, first time meeting GF. She gets GF so drunk on everything she can find in the kitchen that GF can only sleep on the bathroom floor because it's cold and "doesn't spin" I slept with her there curled around her with a sleeping bag. That was when I was most in love with another human being. She was dead drunk and all I could do was hold her.
>happy
Man there aren't as many of these...
Actually being best man for flat mate bro was pretty nice.
Actual story though...hmm...
You know what is damn nice? Learning to cook. It's a great feeling. Once you get your own place, even if it's tiny you can cook for others and makes for a wonderful Friday night. Just get those fucks to help wash up.
Also, never, ever, finger a girl after chopping raw chillies.
Just yknow...don't.
>>69744695
tfw
>>69743567
Reading stuff like that almost disturbs me. It's like you're describing some alien world, and the fact that I feel that way is terrifying. When did I see the outside world as something to cut myself of from? Am I in the first generation of adults who grew up in a world where you don't actually experience what it's like to be a human being anymore? I'm sorry this probably sounds fucking absurd but I after reading that I feel entirely disconnected with any sense of chronology with the world around me. It's like a blindfold.
>>69743893
Everything has been debunked.
>>69744585
It lasted 3 years, should have ended after 3 months.
It's still like this in the South outside the ghettos ofcourse
>>69744793
Don't panic anon. Breathe.
You can and will connect with things.
You also don't have to live as everybody else does.
>>69743836
>are they part of the memeconomy?
Yes. We all have semiotic brain cancer. Stop playing videogames and start meditating.
anyone up for some cards against humanity while we lurk?
this link should work:
http://pyx-2.pretendyoure.xyz/zy/game.jsp#game=280
pass: comfy
WTF where are all the fatties.
The Internet ruined everything
Everyone is now connected to one another online but the opposite has happened in the real world
>>69743567
Its like people now a days are purposefully turning parenthood into a fucking nightmare.
>>69745057
join guys :^)
>>69743054
> I saw a person
> They said this and then I did that
> And then they looked at me like this
> And I felt like that
Just let it go. She doesn't like you. No girl will ever like you. If a girl ever pays attention to you its because you are creepy and stand out, and they can tell you are nervous and staring at them. If one ever really shows interest, 99/100 she's crazy and just wants to use you for money and stability.
>>69742716
What the fuck happened? There has to be a cause. Both parents had to start working to make ends meet so they turn to fatty fast food?
More/cheaper processed food? Walmart?
Literally what the dick.
>>69740627
Born in 70', all I can say about the 80's is...y'all niggas just don't know...glorious times.
http://youtu.be/fa8Qupc4PnQ
>>69744793
>Reading stuff like that almost disturbs me. It's like you're describing some alien world
That's because they are, if not in word, but in spirit, are actually imported from a place, that for all intents and purposes be called an alien world.
>>69740627
That's back when you could walk down the street and get a job with just a firm handshake. And you would have enough money to own a home and a car easily. Now the economy is fucked, you easily do 3 peoples work from back then. Work is streamlined, no time for talking, now there would be one employee working there alone. Also there is a huge influx of foreigners who fuck everything good up.
>>69745423
SEE
>>69743567
And don't blame it on computers and video games we had both but we also had parents who forced us out of the house until the street lights came on.
>>69744830
What do you mean?
>>69741799
What about Gutryanova and Kashirskoe? Ritual from opposite sides of the world.
everything is the same. what you're feeling is nostalgia.
>>69745698
>who forced us out of the house until the street lights came on.
It sounds like a fantasy now. Parents forcing kids into the street.
>>69745542
84 here, even the 90s were fucking magical. What was the turning point, 9/11 or Y2K?
>>69745726
Everything's been debunked, but you still live in Baudrillard's hypereality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
Daily raminder that both Philip Klass and Terence McKenna both were CIA assets.
>>69740627
This video is proof of how too much multiculturalism is a bad thing. The country was lost to the jews and marxism a long time ago though, but Trump is one glimmer of hope to maybe return America to similar 7/11s in the future.
REMINDER
WE ARE PLAYING A comfy GAME OF CARDS AGAINST HUMANITY HERE:
http://pyx-2.pretendyoure.xyz/zy/game.jsp#game=280
pass: comfy
also if you see the following errors:
>Gateway timeout
>Error connecting to server
just ignore them
also pic related
>>69745895
"Go outside and play" "be back before the street lights come on" was my parents two favorite phrases.
>>69745781
Russian oligarchy is just a bunch of shucking and jiving cheap stoolies, they are not connected to the Mystery Babylon.
We have our own fate which is to continue to live in shit and be suicidal.
>>69740627
>What Changed?
We woke up
The 90's was a wet dream where everyone thought we were okay when we clearly weren't
>>69740627
I remember this vid from a long time ago on /pol/
The guy who made the vid actually came in the thread and chatted with us.
>>69745605
Whatever. In the 90's people said the same things about structured time, "kids these days", etc.
The 90's sucked.
Chicks wore bellbottoms, and guys were all frosting their hair. PC games never worked correctly with your particular graphics card.
If you ever dared to bring a beeper, cellphone, or laptop to school teachers would scream at you and call you a drug dealer and confiscate it.
>>69746255
>>69745896
The turning point was the 90's themselves...until then, in most places having anything to do with Nigger culture, music etc was much MUCH more of a social taboo than people realize...the commercialization of Rap/Urban culture to the greater population was awful, also the liberals/revisionists were allowed to roll-back and ruin most of the Reagan legacy.
>>69740627
THE INTERNET HAPPENED
shit was still like this up till the late 90s
>>69746094
>putins oligarchy vs zionist's marxism
is there no escape?
>>69740627
its a bunch of young people who have been out partying and remain in good spirits, you should try it some time
>>69741974
>those cloths
>those desk
>the projector
Fuck anon I didn't ask for these feels.....
Cards Against Humanity (MAGA):
http://pyx-2.pretendyoure.xyz/zy/game.jsp#game=280
pass: comfy
(just clickspam if you get errors)
>>69746393
There is no salvation, but you aren't alone.
>>69745804
>everything is the same
My sisters and I used to go trick-or-treating, alone, each with nothing but a costume and a big pillowcase. And you bet your ass we would stay out until those fucking bags were full - we'd rarely come home before 10:00.
Today there are cities on the East and West coast where trick-or-treating is prohibited after 7:00, where trick-or-treating is legally prohibited for kids 12 and older, and where parents can be fined for letting their kids go without a chaperone.
Don't you fucking sit there and tell me things haven't changed.
>>69746035
Noice.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-462091/How-children-lost-right-roam-generations.html
>>69744154
I don't believe you're over 20
Anyone with half a brain thats older than 25 can see there has been a massive disconnection in social world since the internet became ubiquitous in the mid 2000s
>>69745942
Baudrillard is interesting but he isn't always very coherent. I think he tends to go full retard sometimes. His last book was more a meandering prose on nihilism than a text on philosophy.
>>69742842
Feminism/junior anti-sex league
Floating fortresses/never-ending war in terror
>>69742716
>obesity rates spoke in 91
>same year Super Nintendo was released
pure coincidence
>>69746596
In middle school, I walked with my friend from Wichita to another city to go visit his girlfriend.... That was 2000....things have changed man
>>69746643
seems to me like women just became worse but everything else is the same desu
>>69746559
In the 90's my city had a curfew every night.
>>69746673
I'm just using his concept as an umbrella term for an idea that's been around since forever, Sir Edmund.
>>69743270
Perpetual war.
>>69746823
kek
Multiculturalism happened.
>>69746559
>My sisters and I used to go trick-or-treating, alone, each with nothing but a costume and a big pillowcase. And you bet your ass we would stay out until those fucking bags were full - we'd rarely come home before 10:00.
man... watching Trick or Treaters is depressing now
>only during daylight
>only a few out
>only extremely young/toddlers
>only for an hour and then they all go home
fuck...
>>69744793
If you think it's disturbing reading about a world you didn't get a chance to experience... imagine how it feels having lived in that world. Having grown up there.
Imagine in the distant future if you were one of the last Earthborn colonists on a different planet. Imagine staring out at a bleak sunset over the red hills as a group of Mars's native sons snicker and call you a faggot when they overhear you waxing nostalgic about the blue skies and endless green. Knowing that world is gone and you can never go back.
>>69747061
Yeah, helicopter parenting has really ruined trick-or-treating.
I remember being a kid and the streets would be LINED on each side with trick-or-treaters.
Now, it's basically barren -- except for the random spics who hop in their van from house-to-house trying to get as much candy as they can from out of their neighborhood.
>>69740627
People weren't used to private owned cameras back then, so when someone had one it was a big deal. That's why everyone is so interactive. Also they're at Disney land. Stop romanticizing the past.
>>69740627
Oh my god, the girls have those weird voices, this is heaven!
the internet is probably technology of greater social impact than the telegram, the telephone, the radio, the tv, the VCR
its probably the most important technological happening since something like the steam engine, or even something like the printing press because of how it encompasses so many things of every day life, work, entertainment, communication, economics/business, etc
and people say 'things have always been this way, nothings changed'
its a massive change. the breakdown of social interaction is just a by-product and it is real, and its not the:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98AJUj-qxHI
>>69747465
This
>>69740627
Cocaine was quite popular in the 80s
>>69741067
>Clarke would love it.
what the literal fuck am i reading
>>69747465
>and people say 'things have always been this way, nothings changed'...its a massive change.
First american guy who knows what's up.
"Things have always been this way" is a meme intended to demoralise and neuter the populace.
Things do in fact change all the time, heavily, and not in the ineterests of commoners.
It's a combination of a lot of things and not just one thing.
A lot of it is government interference directly and indirectly.
>>69747377
Camcorders were like iphones in 1987 i.e. almost every household had one. There's some real social energy recorded in that video clip which has since then been completely lost.
>>69747377
also blue shirt guy is drunk, assuming rest are, its 2 am at a gas station outside Disney land., it might as well be a liquor store
We now know why we need Trump, to make America great again, back like the 80s.
>>69747740
things change all the time, but the impact of the internet is a magnitude of change that human civilization hasn't seen in hundreds of years
>>69747740
The russian Lad knows too.You should MEME this up friend.
"Things do in fact change all the time, heavily, and not in the ineterests of commoners."
>>69740627
>This is a 7/11 in 1987 in the middle of the night. Note the energy, humor and sense of excitement in their community in a place as simple as a gas station. Everybody there is smiling and in a great mood.
>What changed, /pol/?
Video cameras were still a novelty because they weren't 30 year old technology that everyone had in their pocket.
![Philosoraptor-Blank-1[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/0X9ThIV.png "Philosoraptor-Blank-1[1].png")
I wonder if there were gentlemen clubs or something mourning the memories of innocent 50s and lamenting terrible kids of the 80s back in the day.
>>69747990
Maybe in Serbia and New York Mafia sorts, but gentleman's club went bust when Feminist used the law to require they let women in here.
>>69746596
How can the parents stand children in their face all the time?? How do they not use their kids to do the shopping how do they not use their kids to do the yardwork.I can't wait to turn my children into mini slaves
>>69740627
they're like right out of a movie, their voices everything, you can just feel theres something there in the ether binding these people together, and you knows its lost. there was something there,
theres this coldness and cynicism attatched to everything these days, everyones heads buried in smartphones, kids not being allowed outside, technology, 9/11, grandad was right, those little gadgets did in fact fry our brains.
>>69746894
yeah like 10:00 on weekdays midnight on weekends
>>69741366
You realize Huxley's vision of the authoritarian world is much closer to fruition than Orwell's right?
>>69740627
This just makes me sad. The 90s were good to me.
The last couple of years haven't been.
>>69748209
they weren't totally exposed to the Jew mindset(most Jews have) of getting everything you want by taking advantage of everything and everyone.
The old Anglo-Saxon Germanic community spirit was still there.
>>69748151
When I was a kid we moved to a plot of land that used to be a field and because my parents wanted nice grass my job was to go out in our 2 acre yard with a bucket and fill it with rocks kek
>>69748209
this
>>69748209
>they're like right out of a movie, their voices everything, you can just feel theres something there in the ether binding these people together, and you knows its lost. there was something there,
>theres this coldness and cynicism attatched to everything these days
Do you feel this too in Norway and other close countries? Your country has a lot more homogeneous demographic make up right?
>>69740627
>Used to work nights at an industrial plant
>Get off work about 4:00
>Stop at a convenience store for gas
>Only other people there are a transient and the cashier
>Buy ice cream because payday and a pack of cigarettes
>The three of us sit around outside bullshitting and talking about our childhoods until the sun comes up
>Never met either of them before
>Never saw either of them again
It's still there. It's just a lot rarer now.
>>69748429
Stop trying to upvote it doesnt fucking exist here
>>69748432
There is a rape epidemic in Scandinavia
>>69745942
>Terence McKenna both were CIA assets.
proofs?
>>69745994
wot
There were Indians, Mexicans and a french chick in the video
>>69748376
Community is dead in England.
I once read that you only need to look into a societies vision of the future to make sense of its value and morals
What future do you envisage /pol/?
is this going to be posted every week for an entire fucking year again like it was a long time ago
I can't wait until the asians can read minds copypasta reappears
>>69740933
> was born a mile from this High School in Minnesota
>graduated in 1994
>but dad cheated on mom so parents divorced in 1985 and I moved to California with mom
>this is literally the High School I would have went to
>I literally would have been in this video
>>69748644
Yes - and they were integrated in the social fabric there - they were part of it. That's the way it should be. I feel as if the system has been overwhelmed and broken, and nobody really wants to talk with each other anymore.
Balance is the one essence this universe asks for in everything.
>>69747465
prior to the internet i remember having cook outs on friday, and drinking beer in the garage while turning a wrench... I remember 4 of july weekend full of people having cookouts and cars in front of their homes. shit, its so bad i didnt have a 10 year HS reunion... they tried to have a facebook to organize it but it turned into women selling each other face cream and fat wraps because the people who ran it didnt know how the internet worked (part of that 50/50 generation where only half of them went down that path, hell half my friends cant text still) things changed, and they changed hard. between the multiple "recessions" and this constant drilling of the middle class im one of the few people i know with a house, and goals for "retirement"
>>69740627
>What changed, /pol/?
The 1990's.
Trust me. I was there. The 90's was the time when suddenly everyone became hostile, arrogant and confrontational.
And their ill mood was fueled by cultural poison like Jerry Springer and the Clinton presidency.
>>69748352
>The last couple of years haven't been.
storytime
>>69748581
Terence McKenna offhandisgly admitted it twice during his public lectures. If you do not know of the occasion, then you're a casual who wasn't actuallly listetning to what he was saying.
The important thing to consider here is not the fact of him being a spook, but ask the question why the Alphabet Soup keeps both hardline skeptics and psychedeleic far-out shamans on the payroll.
Nothing is true/Everything is permitted
>>69740627
I want to live in that America.
This makes me hate jews, so very, very much.
"Drugs, beer, sex and wine, 'cause we're the class of '89"
That was my class's little chant... Everyone just want to have fun and be silly party animal.
>>69749415
Now itd be dude weed and sex boys can be queens because its 2016
>>69748209
Damn you Martin Cooper!!!
>growing up in the 90's
>everything is fine and dandy
>me and my friends would explore everywhere in our town
>we had the entire underground flood drainage system mapped out in markers on like 6 different pieces of paper
>we could go anywhere in town in less than 10 minutes through these tunnels, in a car it would take anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour
>riding our bikes all throughout town
>stopping off at the circle k to get an icee
>making up ghost stories while we sat in orange orchards
>had my first kiss in an orange orchard near my house
>tons of memories in those orange orchards
>hell, sometimes we fell asleep under those trees, wake up at like 5 am, hop on our bikes just before the mexicans got there to start picking
>ride away while the sun rose up, with our surf boards under our arms on our way to the beach
>2001 rolls around
>for some reason all the orange orchards start getting torn down in town
>shitty track housing starts going up
>all of the flood drainage tunnels start getting barred closed
>got stitches in both of my feet after jumping into the sand at the beach we would always go to that was always empty
>when I landed my feet got sliced open by glass
>sitting on the couch with my cut open feet on the table
>turn on the tv just in time to see the first plane hit the tower
>watch the second one hit
That was when my childhood ended. 2001.
They fucking won.
>>69748432
yeah everything sort of started "going gray" around the early 2000's. and its easy to just say "ohwell you were younger, you're just feeding off nostalgia" but you know what I don't think so, I truly believe something massive changed,, regardless of their life situation or age, and people are supressing it because theyre scared,
>>69741517
sleep tight porker
>>69740627
>What changed, /pol/?
Elites getting money hungry and moving jobs to China. Hoarding all the wealth.
Also fat people
>>69749997
what about poo though
>>69750040
I don't know about scandinavia but I know right now I can go outside and their wont be 20 different tribes of 12-15 year olds wondering around on a saturday night. That is so fucking different from the 90's its unfathomable
>>69741799
doubles confirm you are right, fuck the illuminati and martians.
How the fuck did they change the world so fast in just 15 years.
Smartphones being one of the tools.
The camera is the eye which watches you, everything you film, you say, everything get's to the nsa.
How come everything has an orange tint in the 80's?
>>69750401
>wondering
*Wandering
Wow what a cool time
now I hate being a millennial even more
>>69750299
Flood drainage tunnels. It's a beach town, so if there are tidal waves or whatever the water can drain off easily.
You're thinking of sewers.
I was born in the wrong generation.............
>>69750578
Damn, that all sounds comfy and then brutal
Must have been fun running around in the drainage tunnels, although I imagine thatcould theoretically have been extremely dangerous if they used them for sewage or something unexpectedly
I'm a millennialfag, so I don't really know how things truly were.
But from everything I've EVER heard from older generations, the 21st century has changed everything for the worse.
I can never shrug off the feeling that something's just not right. I've just thought I have a mental problem or something.
>>69750040
This. Something has happened, and it's got even worse in the last few years. People are like shells of what they used to be. No one has any time at all anymore, they can't truly relax for even a minute. I'm starting to entertain any kind of theory, maybe all these cell towers that have been built just about everywhere in the last few years are emitting harmful energy that is really screwing alot of people up emotionally and physically.
>>69750688
They check before they open flood gates. In my city they would come by and yell at us to get out.
>>69750688
Well yeah, we probably could have died if there was a flood while we were down there.
But we didn't.
We didn't think of the danger, we thought of what was around the next bend, what was at the top of this ladder, what was on the other side of that hill.
We were exploring the real world man, and that's something people these days lack, the urge to explore.
>>69749997
You never see gangs of kids on bikes riding around anymore. We used to ride around and go to all the construction sites to go exploring and dumpster diving for wood to make bike ramps and go into every bulldozer they left unlocked. We'd go into every open house in the area just to see what it looked like inside and one real estate agent let us wear our skates in the basement and skate around
>>69741067
Hunter S. Thompson would be unhappy. He would probably off himself again if brought back to life. It's even more depressing now.
Just remember what we're fighting for lads
>>69741974
If I could ever pop back in time for a brief period. I would give my younger self a camera.
Lots of pictures, were taken from by my parents during holidays and some birthdays but there is a shitload of stuff in my life that only exists in my memory.
>>69749997
That's sounds like a pretty great childhood
I was born in 1995 and basically my childhood consisted of TV, Video games, going to school and learn nothing, getting bullied even by my brother, hear my parents fight, eating crap and getting fat with acne and having no friends just a group of kids I used to stick too so they wouldn't think I'm a loner
>>69740933
gen x had it so fucking good compared to us holy shit
>all those white girls
>>69750981
That's because there's nothing TO explore. At least in my experience. There's nothing around here but housing developments. Once you've explored one, you've explored them all.
Although, I must say that there was one really neat place that my friends and I would go to every once in a while when I was in 5th/6th grade.
>Spooky farmhouse on plot of land completely surrounded by housing developments and suburbs
>foggy night
>friends and I (probably about 9/10 years old at this point) go check it out
>broken glass, broken in door
>used shotgun shells laying on the ground
>weird smell
>we thought we saw a homeless guy or something
>being 6th graders we all fucking book it back home
And that's the most adventurous thing I can think of from my childhood....
>>69740627
>what changed
We got infested with all manner of Mexican, African, South Asian trash in the form of "diversity visa" migrants and illegal immigrants
>>69740627
https://youtu.be/W8n11y2lxrE Part 2
>>69751009
Are you me?
>>69750886
>Something has happened, and it's got even worse in the last few years. People are like shells of what they used to be. No one has any time at all anymore, they can't truly relax for even a minute. I'm starting to entertain any kind of theory
The antimatter is gaining hold.
>>69751138
Why didn't you parents force you out of the house? Did they like having children in their face 24/7.
>>69749997
>1970s suburbia
>yard games in summer
>exploring, bicycles, same
>everyone's doors unlocked
>wander in looking for friends
>stay to dinner wherever
>be back before dark!
>sleep in the hay barn of local farm
>whole hay racks of kids
>farm got sold
>barn torn down
>some weird apartment buildings
>section 8
>ok, first black people in area
>don't do anything different until....
>first crime happens, theft
>then more stealing
>doors start getting locked
>kids get beat up
>vandalism
>little old cemetery gets destroyed
>can't leave bikes outside till tomorrow
>be back before dark! became 'Stay in the yard!'
Childhood ended when section 8 came in
>>69751009
FUCK SMARTPHONES AND TV AND CONSOLES AND GAMES WE NEED TO LIVE AGAIN REEEEEEEE
>>69740627
>What changed, /pol/?
There's better stuff to do than hanging out at a gas station these days.
>>69751138
woah are you me?
>>69750981
It makes me so sad, thinking of what they are doing to kids. Denying them of a real childhood and real memories. Instead confining them to schools, most of which are absolutely terrible and don't teach you anything really, except leftist propaganda and how to conform. If you don't conform you will be drugged, failing that sent to juvenile detention, basically kid jail. Also they are fed diets which have produced the most sickly generations of people we have ever seen. Our society deserves to burn, for this alone.
>>69751496
probably. did you cycle through playing kickball hockey cops n robbers capture the flag and jumping off ramps made of bricks and plywood? I had a hockey net and another guy did too so we would drag those nets all around the damn neighborhood to play on diferent driveways and now I visit my parents and no kids are outside and they all wait in their parents cars at the bus stop in the morning
>>69751665
what? being on /pol/ or on the Internet?gaming? At those places people met, real human interaction.
>>69751613
We had all of that but smartphones and we still went out
>>69751009
Dude fucking yes. Exploring construction sites was fun as fuck.
Another 90's story:
>go camping at some random beach
>there with my family and family of friends
>six of us kids go fuck off
>4 parents stay back at camp, presumably fuck like rabbits or something I don't know
>2 youngest kids go fuck off on their own, they're both 8 years old
>so that just leaves the lads
>Me, Brandon, Shaun, and Tyler
>we start jogging up the beach with our skimboards, occasionally tossing them into the water and sliding away into the surf
>turns into a race
>where the destination was we had no idea
>we eventually get to some dunes
>brandon comes sprinting around the dunes and tackles Shaun and I
>"DUDES GET DOWN!"
>we stay down
>tyler trots over and flops onto his stomach, "Hey dudes, what's going on?"
>brandon motions for us to follow him
>we all army crawl to the top of the dune
>there's 5 teenage girls all sunbathing topless on the other side
>mind you we're teenagers as well, so it's all good
>we're all just being little peeping toms
>first time I'd ever seen a tiddy, even if they were like b cups
>they see us and start screaming
>we start laughing and run away with our skim boards
>keep on running
>find this tunnel on the beach
>go into it
>it opens up into this huge orange orchard
>start walking through it
>we begin to notice security cameras turning to follow us
>so we do the logical thing and moon every security camera we come across
>we find some tire chocks just laying in the middle of parking lot
>we grab em like they're some sort of treasure
>we run away laughing and yelling, "HAHA WE GOT YOU DUDES!"
>moon the last camera as we run out
>end the day by petting some sea lions that were sun bathing
>make it back to the camp site just in time for some cheeseburgers and lay's potato chips
didnt this guy do a similar series in japan?
>>69751424
>first guess is an effeminate nu-male minority
I want to puke
>>69740838
Everybody's predictions of the future always fall flat. They will get some things right but generally not in the way they had in mind. http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/france-in-the-year-2000-1899-1910/ you can see spirits of predictions right (air travel, robotic orchestra, battle cars, skype http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/06/23/article-2665946-1F0A19E200000578-835_634x395.jpg ).
And just for fun, look at what Bladerunner predicted for 2019.
>>69751780
we would take our hockey goals over to the tennis courts and play until one of us would inevitably rollerblade into the tennis net and faceplant.
