>Because people were less cynical in the 2010s and there's no way to bring that back.

We were only one year out of the Bush administration. I got a lot of lectures on third way neoliberalism from women who in the same age bracket who today are all stone cold socialists.

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gfrecvh 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Could it be argued that people were cynical about different things? I think a lot of culture is just people uncritically repeating ideas theyve heard.

	▲	ranger_danger 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I agree... it's very easy to have strong opinions about things you are sheltered from the consequences of. And strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding.

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woodgala 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe you should have tried a Christian or conservative dating site? OKC was fabulously non normative.

	▲	eru 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They seemed plenty 'normative' to me, in the sense of professing strong opinions on eg 'I would never date a Tory voter'.

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eru 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Was she in favour or against neoliberalism?