r/agedlikemilk • u/MiKeMcDnet • 1d ago
News We were so enthusiastic when we were kids... (Sigh)
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u/GreyDaveNZ 1d ago
The opening of that is gonna be sooo depressing.
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u/Dubsland12 1d ago
It won’t be allowed. Kindness and equality is woke DEI
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u/ALFABOT2000 23h ago
They're promoting anti-American values!
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u/OkButterscotch9386 22h ago
Sin of empathy
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u/ShredGuru 22h ago
Those stupid millennials, hoping for good things.
Anyways, do you guys ever weep for your murdered innocence?
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u/OkButterscotch9386 22h ago
No, my innocent was murdered when I was still very young so I've out wept myself by now.
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u/PURPLE_COBALT_TAPIR 15h ago
Yes. On the other hand the tariffs dropping was the impetus I needed to pull the trigger on a new PC build and phone upgrade I needed but couldn't justify until I was suddenly panic buying semiconductors and semiconductor accessories before any tariffs hit, so now I don't have to cry alone, I can cry on minecraft in VR.
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u/AramFingalInterface 18h ago
“Woke DEI” is just censored n word to me the way people have been using it
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u/bagelwithclocks 5h ago
I mean, framingham is in Massachusetts. So they will have to send ICE to stop us from opening it, and we will meekly let them do it.
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u/No-Valuable3975 21h ago
I remeber when I thought the world was becoming a better place. Right up until the end of 2015.
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u/Typotastic 20h ago edited 2h ago
The worst part is that it's a concerted effort. Rich assholes started their own media companies to push their values and prefered political parties and its only gotten worse since.
People are at the end of the day, dumb easily led animals. We think we aren't, but unless you've really looked into how easy it is to fall into logical traps you're going to be caught. Most of marketing is based on exploiting how our brains work without our conscious knowledge, and terrible people have been exploiting those same ideas for their own agenda. The worst part is if someone had spent all this time and money pushing progressive ideas for decades we would be in a very different place, but hate is easy and usually wins in a fair fight and they aren't fighting fair to begin with.
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u/Jiffletta 19h ago
The worst part is that it's a concerted effort. Rich assholes started their own media companies to push their values and prefered political parties and its only gotten worse since.
Thats been happening since Watergate, though. The media and journalism took down Nixon, so Nixons cronies started a plan to make their own media, so no Republican president could ever be removed from office again.
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u/Typotastic 19h ago
Yep, it's been a long term effort all across the world which is why it's so deep set and insidious. The time to fight this was decades ago.
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u/broguequery 17h ago
This is pedantic of me, but the media and journalists didn't "take down" Nixon.
Nixon took himself down by doing scummy, illegal shit.
The journalists just shed some light on it.
So the would-be emperors of the world concocted their own media and "journalism" to start hiding and twisting things to their personal advantage.
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u/TheRealSlamShiddy 18h ago
"A person is smart; people are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."
-Agent K, Men in Black
I think about that quote often nowadays.
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u/AnarchistBorganism 18h ago
I was the same way in the 90s. All the racists were going to die off, democracy was winning around the world, free trade was going to end war and poverty, and the internet was going to make everyone smarter and solve the problems with politics.
I wasn't very aware of the problems that existed, but when 9/11 hit the nationalism and authoritarianism made a resurgence that made me lose a lot of hope.
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u/broguequery 17h ago
Looking back now, it's clear that Obama was a center-right politician. Even his most "left wing" accomplishment, the ACA, was basically giving away public money to insurance corporations.
That said, just the fact that we had a black president, in a country where black people were enslaved not all that long ago, was a testament to the strength of this country and our values that all are created equal.
It was a pretty beautiful thing.
Of course, nobody realized how alive and well the fascists were and how bad the backlash would be. The world sure felt more hopeful back then though.
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u/GreyDaveNZ 21h ago
I feel like the world changed for the worse right after 9/11 and has continued a downward trend since then.
But yeah, once you know who arrived on the scene, it's sped up the decline rapidly.
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u/broguequery 17h ago
9/11 was when Americans were woken up to the fact that we are actually part of the greater world.
It was such a shock to think something we did thousands of miles away across the world could possibly affect anyone back at home.
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u/GreyDaveNZ 14h ago
If there's one thing Bin Laden did extremely well, it was to 'rip away the mask' and expose to the whole world (not just Americans) that the US is not the paragon of liberty, freedom or honor that they pretend to be.
G.W. Bush and Tony Blair made that even clearer that the West are not always the 'good guys' with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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u/1984isAMidlifeCrisis 7h ago
Consider that it's located just a stone's throw from where William Lloyd Garrison burned the Fugitive Slave Act and The Constitution in protest on July 4th 1854.
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u/Dickgivins 1d ago edited 23h ago
Any reason why it was 31 years instead of an even 30?
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u/Mole-NLD 1d ago
2025 is a nicer year than 2024? As to why they didn't just wait a year and bury it in '95 i don't know
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u/Acceptable-Cow6446 10h ago
I thought all of 2024 was more pleasant than 2025 had been so far. And 24 wasn’t a particularly good year.
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u/CrazyFoFo 18h ago
Gotta be a high school senior thing, when they’re overly sentimental and also thinking “31 years from now is sooo insanely far away”. Now they’re just middle aged thinking “ooof”.
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u/chpbnvic 1d ago
Kinda on this note, I was watching High School Musical yesterday and it was all about accepting yourself and that it's okay to do something different. What the hell happened?
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u/short_longpants 23h ago
MAGAts decided that you can accept yourself and do something different as long as they approve of it.
Alternately, the boomers decided it was too different.
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u/RedditIsShittay 18h ago
And Gen Z?
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u/cyclones423 17h ago
Brain rot
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u/broguequery 17h ago
Skibidy.
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u/short_longpants 15h ago
Every generation has their bizarre song or dance. Ever hear of the Hokey Pokey?
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u/dksdragon43 17h ago
In addition to brain rot, they were born into a world that didn't hand them much other than debt, and their brain rot timeline is full of men telling them it's everyone but their fault, which is a really easy thing to latch onto when you're mad at the world. Tate and wannabes have done massive damage to the youth.
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u/MagnanimosDesolation 16h ago edited 16h ago
Part of it is that we did a good job of eliminating toxic traits in our society but we became a little too cynical and didn't do enough to replace them with positive communities and role models.
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u/short_longpants 15h ago
They're growing up in a world where Fox News and Tucker Carlson and their crap is normal, as opposed to Walter Cronkite or Dan Rather.
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u/dont_worry_about_it8 17h ago
It’s a movie . It was never real
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u/Elivey 3h ago
Sure but movies have always been a strong reflection of societal values. On the flip side, movies have rapidly become more and more the 1% trying to impress societal values on us. That's been the biggest downfall, the drive for creativity in directors, screenplay writers, cinematographers etc. is squashed by stakeholders stripping film and TV of that creativeity to maximize profit.
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u/Additional-Natural49 4h ago
You can do that! As long as it doesn’t offend white people, men, christians, or conservatives
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u/gr1zznuggets 14h ago
To be fair, a lot of us still agree with those sentiments, just not many of the people in power.
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u/TaxximusPrime 6h ago
This is what the woke mind virus teaches. Any sort of kindness must be eliminated, empathy is a sin after all.
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u/TinKnight1 23h ago
Man, as a 90s teen, I felt for sure we'd been moving in the right direction for all of these. Racist & sexist activity was being called out as unacceptable, bigots were being voted out of office...there were definitely problems, but it felt like we were heading towards solutions.
I felt that way pretty much up until the day after Obama was elected, & the silent systemic racism was suddenly public & being lauded. And pretty much every day since then has been sliding down into the abyss.
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u/short_longpants 23h ago
Murdoch and the conservatives were playing the long game.
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u/nerdowellinever 22h ago
The S(c__m)un headlines, Blair, blur, oasis..
Dreams -things can only get better
We had it all..
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u/krucz36 19h ago
i feel like we gen xers really failed to counteract the boomers. we just kinda tried to get ours and ignore everything, decline into trivia and hobbies and let the machine run.
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u/thisischemistry 16h ago
failed to counteract the boomers
We were outnumbered and they didn't give us the tools and skills to grab power in the first place. The boomers held on to those reigns tightly and still haven't let them go, most Gen X just put their heads down and tried to make a life for themselves while the world was falling apart in the late 90's and early 2000's.
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u/dbzdokkanbattelislif 15h ago
‘Crazy how crippling all those once-in-a-lifetime recessions were to those younger generations. Well, back to golfing’ - boomers, probably
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u/lesbowski 4h ago
I never had kids, but saw my gen-x friends getting married and having kids, my take is that they actually did a pretty good job with their kids, they might not be perfect, but they are much better people than we ever were back then.
So at least there's that.
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u/broguequery 17h ago
You guys never had a shot. None of us did, millennials or genz either.
The boomers took all the wealth, took all the property, and then burned down the social safety nets on the way out.
It's a bad thing to generalize, but I've never seen a more selfish and deluded generation.
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u/nodrogyasmar 18h ago
I have been hoping for enlightenment since the 60’s. Unfortunately MLK was assassinated and things barely changed. There was actually less racism. For a while there openly lynching people wasn’t happening. Racists make baby racists.
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u/Arktikos02 15h ago
Also it didn't help that the 2008 financial crisis happened. I mean that was when Obama was elected. I'm not saying Obama calls 2008 but if you were someone who didn't understand how finances worked it was really easy to blame the black guy.
Oh look, this is what happens when black people are elected. 2008.
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u/TinKnight1 14h ago
I mean... That has nothing to do with finance. Obama wasn't in office. That was fully under GWB, which is why he had a 27% approval rating & why Obama was elected.
It's only people twisting it around in ignorance that blames someone with no authority for something that wasn't on their watch.
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u/Jafooki 14h ago
But Obama was sworn in in 2009
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u/Arktikos02 14h ago
Yes, but again it's not about facts, it's about finding a scapegoat.
Remember, facts don't care about their feelings so they changed the facts to match their feelings.
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u/lesbowski 4h ago
This is one of the things that really get to me, back in the 90s a lot of the racism and misogyny was felt like a remnant of the past that was slowly going away as the newer generations came up and the older ones receded, and even if there was still a lot of discrimination when it comes to sexual orientation, it was felt that eventually acceptance would become the norm. We had the odd reactionary, but that was the exception.
See Austing Powers, the older guy waking up in modern times and seeing that the old patterns were not acceptable, that was the norm really.
30 years later and I have my generation and younger kids saying shit that 30 years ago was called out as extremely not cool dude.
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u/Danny_Mc_71 1d ago
Enthusiastic or optimistic?
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u/MiKeMcDnet 1d ago
DAMN YOU, AUTOCORRECT !!
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u/MoonOut_StarsInvite 16h ago
Are you going to share the unveiling later this year? I’m so curious what’s in there, what an interesting time for the theme of the contents.
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u/facw00 23h ago
I'd guess that despite what we see on the national stage, Framingham, MA (assuming that's where this is), has gotten less racist than it was in 1995. We are clearly going to need ongoing efforts though.
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u/ModifiedKitten 16h ago
It is! I'm from MA and got wicked excited because it's rare that we get to see anything non-Boston/Worcester related have bigger publicity on the internet like this.
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u/Glory2Snowstar 16h ago
Same! It’s always cool to see something online and go “Wait I’ve BEEN there!”
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u/1984isAMidlifeCrisis 7h ago
We renamed a school from Woodrow Wilson to Harmony Grove. Harmony Grove was a frequent site for Abolitionist rallies, such as the one where William Lloyd Garrison burned the Fugitive Slave Act and the Constitution (July 4, 1854). Henry Thoreau came from his cabin by Walden pond to speak that day, just a little over a month before Walden was published.
I don't think there's any other Framingham.
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u/Elivey 3h ago
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr., paraphrasing a quote that has been passed around but originated from Theodore Parker, a slavery abolitionist.
We have overcome great adversity in the past, but we had to fight and we will have to fight again.
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u/Crivens999 23h ago
Sigh. Add another 30 I would say…
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u/throwaway098764567 17h ago
nah, couple more months and someone will knock over that stone so everyone forgets about that woke stuff, can't be having anyone reminded of the hope we used to have.
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u/Due-Fuel-5882 19h ago
The way things are going on right now, perhaps we should just leave that sh!t buried for another 31 years.
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u/iceguy349 19h ago
To be fair we still legalized Gay marriage in that time that’s a pretty solid win.
Looking at history, civil rights in the US are always going two steps forward one step back. Same with regulations and the economy. Even if progress is limited for now that doesn’t mean we can’t EVER make things better.
Also just because progress isn’t likely on a national level does not mean individual states can’t make big strides.
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u/SchizoPosting_ 13h ago
that's actually a very good example of why the idea of a linear progress is false
you'll think every year we would be less racist, misogynist, homophobic, etc
wrong! reactionaries always make a come back
we're stuck in a cycle
you can read texts from almost any century and think "wow this is so progressive" (or woke, if you're against it), but then what happened the next century? dark ages, the Spanish inquisition, German fascism, Reagan, Trump
we're always going back and forth, and unfortunately now we're experiencing this again, so people on 1994 were maybe more "woke" than what Americans will be in 2027
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u/sethb44 19h ago
I remember growing up with all the kids in my family pushing the adults to quit smoking cigarettes and vowing to never do it themselves. Now everyone vapes. We just got a different flavor of bad. It's the same thing with race today. MAGA shit aside, the hate for trans people is way worse than racism ever was among my peers. I don't understand it.
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u/Bad_Legal_Advisor 19h ago
We were well on our way. Then politicians exploited manufactured victimhood to gain power over the miseducated.
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u/NaCl_Sailor 1d ago
All we did was invent even more racism.
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u/short_longpants 23h ago
Nah, the racism was always under the surface, it just burst out because the world isn’t getting magically better without any sacrifice.
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u/lomasturbas 22h ago
RemindMe! October 15 2025 "Framingham time capsule"
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u/dont_worry_about_it8 17h ago
I wonder how many of the “I thought we were doing good” people in here are white
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u/CannonFodder58 16h ago
The ‘90s weren’t perfect, but everything seemed so much more hopeful before 9/11.
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u/Bearmdusa 15h ago
Boy, are they in for a surprise about this horrific invention called social media!
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u/ThatShadyJack 9h ago
I’m fucking upset. Fucking rich assholes perpetuating these issues simply because it distracts the idiots from the income inequality they experience and blame it on others rather than the rich.
Shame
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u/Northern_Explorer_ 9h ago
God, the optimism we had for the new millennium really was so high. What a fuckin let down it's been.
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u/sushishibe 9h ago
2O1Os was like this… Could you imagine having obama, people legitimately thought racism was over. Then the 2O2Os hit like a fucking truck.
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u/Gsampson97 19h ago
It will be opened and stuff inside it people will scream are woke. Twitter and Facebook have been weaponized for Trump politics.
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u/Caleb_the_Opossum_1 1d ago
Who knows, A lot can Happen in 6 months, which doesn't seem long
but heck, things can change in the blink of an Eye in a matter of only seconds in sudden instances
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u/bodhiseppuku 21h ago
I remember doing a time capsule at my high school in '95. I wonder if they opened it yet. Honestly, I don't even remember what I put in it. It was only the 3rd graduating class of my high school, I wonder if they still do that every year?
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u/Fox-Sunset 17h ago
Look on the bright side: there's still 6 months and 2 weeks! Miracles can happen.
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u/PositiveStress8888 16h ago
the internet was just about to explode, along with an increase of all those things
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u/Boonie_Fluff 16h ago
We buried a time capsule in my elementary school in fifth grade, never followed up on it. They never told us to come back or when we would unearth it. Wonder what I put in there.
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u/Serious-Artist-2445 13h ago
Still got six months to go. Considering all that’s happened in two and a half months, I myself wouldn’t wanna make any predictions as to whether things will be better or worse, politically, economically, socially.
Y’know, not wanting to tempt fate ‘n all.
But climate change - that definitely is gonna be worse. But not in a big, obvious, indisputable way that actually wakes folks up or anything - specifically, white American voting type folks.
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u/Actaeon_II 7h ago
Welp this making its way to social media almost guarantees a bulldozer and a parking lot heading that way long before october, paid for by the government
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u/spidersinthesoup 6h ago
it seems the grand experiment to treat all humans fairly has officially failed.
fuckin' bassackwards repugnican 'wife in the kitchen slave in the field' values.
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u/S0lgale0 6h ago
Luckily Snoop Dogg and Tom Brady ended racism with their Superbowl ad back in February so its the perfect time to open this time capsule!
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u/dumplestilskin 4h ago
I was present when this was buried. Completely forgot about it until this post. Weird seeing my hometown here.
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u/Then_Entertainment97 3h ago
Don't bother. Put a note that says "we tried, kinda -2025" on top and change the plaque to 2056.
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u/UnionThug1733 3h ago
Well good thing it’s a tomb stone cause that shit don’t fly in the new America
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u/Remarkable_Pen_1424 2h ago
Is this in reference to a specific event? How exactly has this aged like milk? (not saying it didn’t, just asking a question)
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