what was that about zeitgeists again

[maradydd]

Warren Ellis, in Planetary #7, January 2000:Jack always said it was difficult for us Americans to understand what it was really like [in Britain] in the darkest parts of the eighties

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[darthzeth]

Thatcher, Reagen, Bush Jr, and Obama are far from the worst leaders, and their administrations are far from the worst administrations. I'm all for taking strong political stands and pushing for the direction you want the society to go. Their policies might not have been good, and we can always fight for a more perfect world.

But people in the first world complaining about the 'darkness' of the 80s is bunk. It annoys me to hear rich people whine about the state of the world.

[maradydd]

And yes. For all that there are multiple countries on the verge of being on the same precipice of economic collapse that Germany was in the 1930s, I certainly do not see any of them heading toward anything like National Socialism, as one perhaps rather tired example.