hey: i need to say some things out loud:
the world used to work better:
food used to be made of higher quality ingredients;
companies used to give a fuck about the experience of their customers. they had phone numbers that reached the actual business where a human who worked at that business had to either tell you to fuck off or tried to resolve whatever issue you were contacting them about;
television used to be less stupid;
we used to own things and those things broke less often and less spectacularly;
websites weren’t a bunch of moving pieces loading and updating at different times;
ultrawealthy grocery store owners used to feel a responsibility to the people who shopped at their stores - and wether that was motivated by morality or by a desire to keep their customers coming back didn't really matter to the average consumer; you used to be more than a cloud of numbers;
you used to not see preemptive signs, or hear messages priming you to be an asshole by telling you that 'abuse will not be tollerated'. you used to not be abused.
we used to have doctors - we knew them and they knew us;
we used to have more nurses and teachers and we paid them well;
this bit is too long. I could probs say it more succinctly, and may at some point:
it was common to hear, in the 1980s, 90s, and early 2000s - people talking about the 'good ol' days': some idea that life in the 50s was much better than the consumerism of the 80s, the jaded 90s, or the shallow early 2000s. and someone would pipe up: it wasn't the good 'ol days for visible minorities or marginalised people. i want to remain aware of that and admit that some of my beliefs about 'what used to be' must miss an awful lot - that there are experiences that i don't know about, understand, or that i'm just completely wrong about. i dont want to fall into that trap, and i'll try to avoid it, and try to correct when ive done it. still, i'll fuck it up some time, i'm sure. i think, though, that it's better to talk and be wrong (with good intentions) than to never speak.
i am starting this site by moaning . i hope it grows beyond that. i've really fucked it badly if i can't be motivated by the good as well as the bad.