People who say the past was better or cleaner often “forget” to remember the negative aspects of the past. It’s also easy to remember the things that didn’t affect us, like a white person remembering going to the malt shop with friends but not remembering that there were no black kids in there either.
People who say the past was better or cleaner often “forget” to remember the negative aspects of the past. It’s also easy to remember the things that didn’t affect us, like a white person remembering going to the malt shop with friends but not remembering that there were no black kids in there either.
Yes it sounds like selective memory to me.
Sure, some things were better back then. But a lot of things weren’t. Just as some things are better now, but not everything.