Question of the Day!

Ignorance. Americans were more ignorant and Ignorance is Bliss; therefore more BLISSFUL.

WW2, Korea, Viet Nam were not fought on USA soil. The Civil War and the Great Expansion West were sanitized

In the 1950s, people who did not conform to the ideal were invisible. The 1980s were all about the $benjamin$. Now hyper-masculine Bitcoin Bros rule.

If you loved Jim Crow and lynchings just wait... the late '20s may become known as the Age of Intolerance or, more poetically, The Twitching Twenties... as at the end of a rope. Some in the USA want the Glory of Germany 1939. Some of us disagree with that dystopian vision.

Fashion in music, art, food, media go through cycles, but Dachau and New Dachau (Guantánamo) remain.

Also... we are not always aware of the pain of others as children and as we grow older we forget pain (unless we carry personal trauma with us) and look at the past through rosy tinted lenses, as Patron Of Lost Clauses points out.

If we live in the Past and ignore the Darksome Present, we will inherit a Future where dystopian fiction becomes fact.