Old World Blues
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Around 13 minutes in really resonates with me.
I yearn to go back to the 80s, even though I never lived through them. To the last great decade of America, back when that dream was still possible.
The modern day feels like a Visigoth walking through the streets of a recently conquered Rome, marveling at the ornate structures and the incredible feats of engineering, unable to comprehend how they were made.
Nowadays, every new day feels like one new step in the decline of an empire, where the stewards of the civilization are too busy speedrunning the seven sins to notice that the commoners are starving, their borders are porous, and the barbarians are coming.
The 80's felt like a rebuild after a bad bit. The constant political insanity was given a rest for a bit and suddenly Eastern Germany and the USSR fell.