Date: July 17th, 2026 9:08 PM Author: Jared Baumeister
the government was falling apart. He also figured the only people with knowledge of how things used to be would old people who lived in that era, so of course you'd want to be respectful toward those people. It's the youth who deserve a kick in the nuts
Date: July 17th, 2026 9:12 PM Author: OYT and the Indie Reprieve ()
this assumes that "how things used to be" is worth a damn, which is a conceit that old people cling to as their bodies deteriorate into the cleansing indignity of death and Ruin.
Date: July 17th, 2026 9:16 PM Author: Jared Baumeister
Those people are probably more polite. If you ever see interviews with former slaves, they're all super polite, but subsequent generations were less so