A Political Thread pt. 2

[dirty harry]

I honestly don’t know. I mean, what am I comparing it against? Just the 20th/21st century or am I looking at the Bronze Age and earlier? Am I talking about personal experience or the experience of people generally? Am I looking at just the UK or the whole world?

I take it you mean hard times to be economic struggles?

Well i mean there are 0 people making the claim 1940 was a better time than 1997, and i genuinely dont think 2 welshmen discussing the societal struggles of central Uganda is very helpful lol.

 

[Saintjay]

This threads a ******* hard time.

 

[Which Tyler]

This threads a ******* hard time.

You've got to go back 80+ posts to find ten that are visible

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

 

[Welsh Exile]

Well i mean there are 0 people making the claim 1940 was a better time than 1997, and i genuinely dont think 2 welshmen discussing the societal struggles of central Uganda is very helpful lol.

Why not though? I mean, if you want to define hard times as “war” then sure but I’m sure you’re aware that there’s a lot of people that won’t define “hard times” by purely economic standards. They’ll be an element of cultural unity and cohesion. Hard times could well point to a time of peacetime but also to a time of “cultural instability” (however you might want to define this)

There are many people, WW2 aside, who will reminisce about the time back then and wish we could go back to those times. ****, we have politicians like JRM who would like us to go back, culturally, to the Victorian era.

But assuming you don’t think this, and I certainly don’t, then I would say, to answer this silly question, that we are leaning more towards the “easy” times at the moment with a strong perception that times are “hard” but, generally speaking, they’re pretty good.

Not if you’re living in Ukraine or Gaza though.(and 70% of the planet)

 

[Welsh Exile]

This threads a ******* hard time.

I’ve just got from London on work drinks. Strap yourself in boy. I’ve got all night.