It's not that we are getting old (though we definitely are), the world *really is* getting shittier. We *really are* losing our agency to corporate bosses and their conservative politician minions. And the solution is, as always, collective, political and messy.
Don't take my word for it – take Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs) 's, and your own experience: https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/11/lapsarianism/#nostalgia-is-a-toxic-impulse
Alberto Cottica
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