been thinking about all the little moments tucked away in my memories that are a world unknowable to those younger than me, so consider this an opportunity to reminisce over old times, but also to ask those about the times you did not live through.
I guess my question for those older than me is: before computers, how did you learn to do something?
Did access to knowledge change your life, was a constraint lifted when you no longer depended on having found the right books or people to learn tips on how to cook a new dish, or how to fix a plumbing problem, or how to plant a garden?
Was life more simple, did you have fewer problems to solve without technology in your life, or did technology make life easier?
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This is not really in the spirit of this post, rhetorical questions and anger directed at the older generation are not welcome.
It’s not a rhetorical question and not in anger. I would like to know what I have asked. However I see that it puts the reader into a corner. I couldn’t come up with a better way.
I find it hard to believe you genuinely are just asking whether the older generation knows they have to be involved politically … the question is practically a paradigm example of a rhetorical question - designed to put them in a corner and suggesting what you think they should see as true.
Regardless, whether you recognize the hostility and pressure in your question - I still would prefer you not bring it up here, if you read my post, this thread is not about politics but about understanding times before yours.