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I miss the 2000s so very much, all the way up until about 2008. After that, everything went to absolute shit so bad, such that now I feel I live in a dystopian nightmare.

These were the days before economic turmoil (before 08 of course), the all-consuming big-tech disruption, and before the woke/PC garbage ruined everything. Not everything had to be politically motivated either.

Life was a bit more simpler back then and more laid back. You had cool tech but knew when to take a break and play outside with adventure and friends. Exploring the backyard, the creeks, riding bikes, making trails in the backyard woods... some examples.

This is before everyone lost their ever fucking minds. There was still decorum and manners. No AI face recognition when you walk into Walmart. No leftist mobs burning down businesses, terrorizing their neighbors, and barging into churches to berate congregants. That shit didn't fly back then, and if kids and teens participated in that, their asses would be beat. Adults were actually more like adults, and boy scouts were actually the BOY Scouts for the boys. Kids were actually able to be kids without trying to indoctrinate them with sexually/developmentally inappropriate shit. Drag queens performances in school would have been an outright national outrage.

You could crack jokes back then that are now offensive to hypersensitive snowflakes.

Most of all, I miss my family being together and when family actually meant something. Now, this whole "boundaries" movement and family members blocking one another even just something ridiculous as a political disagreement... it is all disheartening to say the least.

And of course, the culture I miss:

Hear me out. There's this guy on Instagram who pits 2 countries, continents, states against each other, and has people vote for which they think is more beautiful. It caused quite a firestorm in the comments, and I got involved in a couple quarrels myself.

New Zealanders and Swisses were claiming their countries are more beautiful than the US, and me my fellow Americans were arguing that the US is more beautiful! With China being the only other reasonable contender.

So, OUR argument was, the US has far more variety then those countries, and landscapes you can't find elsewhere.

THEIR argument was, that the majority of the U. S. is ugly, while they're countries have more beauty per square mile.

On the flip side, some Brazilian guy called me an idiot and wanted to beat me up through the screen, because I made the same argument that they were making against the US.

But here's the thing, I make the SAME aguments, and I think BOTH are correct, depending how you look at it. Although I would pick NZ or Norway over Switzerland, as Switzerland has no coast.

THEN, we have countries like Italy, France, Lebanon, maybe even Spain that have BOTH variety AND beauty per square mile! So one of those could also be considered the most beautiful.

So what do you guys think? Let's settle this once and for all!