I would be back to the 80s 90s in a flash not everything was great but what I miss most was the high trust society we still had across the south west you agreed a price and shook hands now you spend hours doing quotes and emails.
21:00 " *It's a free country!* " Haven't heard that traditional retort in years. Common to my generation, even in our playgrounds in the 1960s & '70s: " *It's a free country!* " We children & teens of the *1960s & '70s* had more freedom than adults do today. More proof that today's adults have become *infantilised* - - complicit in their own infantilisation. George Orwell's astute dissection of totalitarianism, under the guide of fiction in *Nineteen Eighty Four* , shows how citizens are infantilised by *Big Brother* .
A good talk and threw me back to the 70's 80's. April was a time of bloom with the odd April shower. Well, now every day seems like the same day - stuck in this groudhog day. grey, miserable carpet of cloud cover - like a bad repeat of some old movie. Summers were sometimes so hot my feet would feel like they were burning as I walked barefoot on the pavement. The sky seemed bluer and life revolved around nature, climbing trees, lashing up swings, making dens, playing cowboys and Indians in the woods, seeking out frogs and newts in the various ponds near by. And, converting out bikes to having longer forks; drag-car style. Making ramps to propel ourselves into the air and over our friends bodies all Evil Knievel style. My point is, technology not only stole away jobs, but also childhoods. I don't feel it's done us any favours and even though life is more comfortable I'm finding people are less sociable and less happy. The high street wasn't just a place to shop but it was also a place to merge with humanity and communicate in real life. Pubs were places, men mostly, would discuss politics, union affairs, cars and sports. And so many pubs have closed down due to cheap booze in the supermarkets, netfix and the smoking ban. It's as though the elite want to isolate us from each other so we don't discuss the things we once did.The whispers are out in regards to policing the internet. Kids are obsessed with technology and exposed to disturbing content online and on their phones. It's as though we are being herded into the slaughter house with the promise of something better but heading into a nightmare. Life seems duller and less exciting -- less vibrant. And yes the music is shite.
Very well put. The colour really has gone out of life, there aren't the "characters" that there used to be, and people are less content and sociable, but are ruder and more miserable. I try to make the most of the simple pleasures in life - watching a sunset, enjoying beautiful wild flowers like bluebells and poppies, and having a laugh with a friend. Laughter seems to be in short supply now, it's harder to find things to laugh at.
You're not wrong about the rain mate. It's been total dogsh!te. I've hardly done any full weeks this year. Old lad I work with says this is the worst year he's ever had. Ah well, at least they can't get a robot to do stonework int middle of nowhere 🤷🏻♂️
Off down the rec, do some ramp-jumps. Might ride down their with Max, him on me handlebars - I’ll give him a knock… Five hours later went home for dinner. Then had to write Nan a thank you letter for me birthday present. Dear Nan… Youth club disco… what a blast. ‘Baggy Trousers … Dancing, laughter; a hall full of young-beings with a sense of belonging, yes… a sense of belonging. Along came the giant supermarkets, local shops began to board up, communities scattered. Along came the mobile phone and internet… independent imagination thinned - loneliness quadrupled. Then grew the media… FEAR and danger tenfold X10. 70’ 80’ 90’ =better days. ✅ I’m not living in the past, however, by god, we all need to take a few giant steps back and regroup. Great video Woodlander. Many thanks. 👍
There was an energy to the 80's that was pretty much spent by the mid 90's. For kids and young adults, it was great. We were in the middle of two worlds. We played outside, sat at the same desks in school as our parents had, with the empty inkwell holes still there, got taught with a blackboard and watched in awe at all the technology slowly starting to emerge. All done to the backdrop off great music and films. The 80's is like the Nexus...we'd do anything to get back to it.
we still occupied most of our nations and the demographics were way better .. but the destruction was beginning and the signs were there all along of what "they" were going to do to us ( USA already had Hart-Celler act in 1965 and the civil rights movement began a serious antiWhite effort )
The 80s were miles better. Today He-Man would hold aloft his magic sword and proclaim that he was… *”The Most Powerful **-Man-** Pronoun in the Universe!”*
I'd go back to the 70s and 80s any time! Bring on that time machine. We had real skies, real food (well mainly)better weather, in fact, so much was better. No smart tech! We went out with our mates and we sat on the common green and we went to the beach etc...Despite hyper inflation of 17% with mortgage rates, despite the three day week (70s) and despite Thatcher. I miss it
I quite agree. I feel so lucky to have been born in the 60's, and to have experienced life as probably the best it's ever been - at least in the UK. To have freedom as a child was priceless, riding horses, bikes, walking and playing in the countryside without adults being present was a luxury that few children enjoy now. Crime was a fraction of what it is now, it was so much safer, most people were decent, mannerly and friendlier, there genuinely were real communities, police and ambulances came to you promptly if they were needed, NHS services were vastly better, roads weren't full of potholes, people drove more safely and considerately, things were made to last - appliances lasted much longer than they do now... That's just off the top of my head, I could think of many other things that were so much better than they are now. Most people were happier, healthier and less stressed, people actually smiled and laughed regularly. I think few people are genuinely content now, most are burdened to varying degrees with problems and worries. I appreciate that not everybody had those luxuries, life was still very tough for some. What I wouldn't give to go back to those innocent times! As the saying goes "you don't know what you've got till it's gone".
Went out on my own at 17 in 1976, spent my time working and trying to become a responsible adult. Married at 18, first kid at 21, bought the first home at 25. Although I was aware of the changes, I avoided it, didnt like it, knew it wasnt going to be good. I still avoid as much as possible. I want to go home, back to the 70s, times were hard but people were still real, life was real. When they said tech would make life easier and better, I knew it was a lie and was always chastised for being so old fashioned. Get with it, move forward or get left behind they said, I wonder if any of those people ever think about those conversations they had with me back then ?
I think, what killed the High Street, was the excessive parking charges and war on the motorist. Too many parking restrictions, zones, made to make our lives awkward.
Hi Woodlander. Glad seeing you again.😊 I grew up in the 1960's. For me that was the best time. All the 60's music...Beatles...Dave Clark five...Rolling stones...Jimi Hendrix...Led Zeppelin...The Monkees Was a Favorite of mine when I was 11 years old. Still holds a place in my heart. Such good music. We were lucky to have experienced that. Everything has gone down hill. I hate seeing my grandchildren addicted to the video games...cell phones...etc... Children should be outdoors riding bikes...being in nature...playing ball or badminton... anything! It's sad to see that rarely do children play outdoors. I rode my bike a lot in the 60's. In my neighborhood with friends at times. You don't see that anymore. So much has changed. Anyway I agree with your comments. Thank you for another great video. I love your "ramblings" as you called them. Take care. 😊💞
The 1980s and 90s were good for me. Even in 1999, I had hope for the future. The world still seemed normal. Today, I see an ever widening abyss in front of me...
I've said this before; I grew up in the sixties and seventies...with regards to music...the best time. With regards to the nation and our culture it seemed a paradise. I talk to a lot of youth about 20 yrs old or younger, and tell them what it was like growing up in those times. Honestly, they look at me with that look that says, 'nah, you're just making that sh*t up...' Honestly I can't blame them. If this dystopia we now live in is all that they've known, how would they know any different...
Hiya Simon 😊 I actually remember a lot from 1975 onwards, though only born in '73. These decades were great to grow up in, though obviously there were many troubles as well. Even the power cuts of the '70's seemed fun as a child and house holds would all check on each other concerning candles, food etc and obviously the weather was amazing, beautiful summers and proper winter snow. Again fun but also caring. I struggle with what I've brought my daughters and grandson into and only hope that somehow I can contribute to your Inituitive so that they can grow up in an environment of nature and real souls who think and feel as I believe we were meant to. I loved the new wave era, died my hair black, tassly skirts. Was 16 at the start of the raves in '89 and had my own flat in Liverpool by 18, working, studying and just enjoying friends and all walks of life. I'm 51 now and been made unemployable by the brutal medical industry and have to beg and be totally demoralised and dehumanised by the whole system. I just want to live and give and yet I'm stuck with nothing, left feeling a waste of space and some would say 'a drain on society'. I have started a bee keeping course so hopefully that can be helpful in the future as food and medicine for my family and all surrounding though this seems miniscule in the greater picture. I was never fortunate enough to own my own house as if I did I would of sold it by now, moved to an acre with the inituitive and give the rest towards others. I keep praying that somehow this will happen as there is no other way to actually live and be healthy and happy, loving and giving. I do remember remember 'it's a free country' being said often and people being happy not 'offended' by this saying. I love what your doing Simon and pray regularly that God brings you, me and all of the inituitive all that you/we need to live the soulful life intended. Thank you for all you have brought to us. Many want to help and start recreating but didn't know where to start. Big love and God bless to you and your family and all who's here. Thank you again🌳🌺🐝
I could listen to you talk for hours, Simon. You have a lovely relaxing voice and demeanour. You are right about the rock music 🎸 being better in the 80's.. I'm a 90's chick, so I think 80's and 90's were the easiest decades that society has ever had. Then Blaire came in, and it all slowly began to go down hill. Keep doing what you do, my friend, you are an anchor! ⚓ I have been thinking about May, but undecided if I can make it due to rectifying health issues (nothing life threatening just something I should have done years ago). I wish you well, and look forward to the next seminar ♥
Thanks for this video, I had forgotten about having to dial up to the internet, how time flies, now it`s all wifi. I remember in my first job in the 80`s, having to learn how to use a computer to write my own letters which the office secretary had previously done obviously putting her out of a job. Technology is enslaving us all and sadly people do not realise it. When you lose your job and no longer have the same purpose, you find a new one, most of us are now researching what`s going on in the world and joining forces to help each other. Bit by bit I am withdrawing myself out of their system as much as I can.
I applaud your initiative and words coming from the heart sir, it's really soothing knowing that are people coming up with ideas and fighting the good fight. Really interesting fact what you said about your Graphic Design journey, how computers took over before you could even practice what you loved properly. I'm a 29 yo Romanian that finished Graphic Comms in Norwich and I'm so grateful for the time and teachings that I got in the UK; sadly now I see many friends that had truly artistic inspirations being broken by all sorts of "Design Agencies", following the same trends, always having to learn some new program, incorporating AI in their work in order to be able to keep their jobs and so on. In university they said print is dead...hopefully with time people will get back to drawing more, screen printing their own clothes, woodcutting, pyrography and all these techniques that bring so much joy and meditation in ones life. I hope that you're still being creative through all of this! God bless you 🌞
Criminal justice bill in 94 put an end to the rave scene. The Castlemorton free festival awakened the powers that be to tighten the thumb screws even more on our freedom. That was a festival of love and peace, until the police turned up heavy handed. I think they made it so you couldn’t have 8 or more people standing together listening to repetitive music! That’s when it became commercialised by the big companies and went downhill from there into the early 2000’s to the crap we hear now.
The rave scene never really stopped it just went totally underground and was kept really small. I was still going to raves well into the 00's and there were quite a few small festivals that kept rave alive. Beatherder started off as a bit of a rave in a farmers woods and they still have the rave in the woods as part of the festival.
@@pennywabbit3684 I did actually go to a few small raves over the last few years here in Dorset. There are a few underground sound systems floating about and yes it’s good to keep the movement going but it’s definitely got a different vibe to it now and I’m also 50 so it’s all a little different for myself now,no mad three day festivals but I do still produce Trance music
It could have been me speaking - it is such a huge spark to keep the fire going to hear your words. Some of your videos I choose in my unschooling curriculum at home. Fantastic work. Keep it up! Greetings from across the pond.
The 80s were a time of adventure for me. I left college a qualified young person. Walked into a job, passed my driving test, got my own flat, travelled the world, played football, became a military reservist, followed music...loved that era.
A lot of rain here too in the Midwest. I barely got my fruit orchard in the ground yesterday. For me it was the 90s. And yes they felt better, but thinking of the Tytler cycle, times have to get hard for the good to rise through.
@@thewoodlander9868 Yes, they sure are. Our family has decided to cut off the electronics for awhile, because the comfort and escapism has just made us in a sort of daze. It's a hard decision with all my 6 teenagers, but I know how much better things can be and I want that for them. Pray for us! We want change and to take life by the horns instead of just being zombies addicted to our machines.
The 80s and 90s were amazing: such an exciting time... All things were possible. I stated as an IT Engineer working for Canon uk.. I had the first Business PC.
Gud vid Simon. The 80s were so good for me in every way, optimistic. Being a touring gigging musician it was massive. When we heard of any new tech it was usually a way to create new music. Who knew the dystopian shit show that technology was to usher in. Like you say though, not all bad.
I remember getting excited having a go on one of the first video games.. Tennis.. Two white rectangular blocks batting a smaller white block from side to side.. It got boring after a bit.. 😅
The 80's was a great time, but it was a false sense of freedom. Hell was already there, but the Devil's mask hadn't fully come off yet, so life was "still" pretty good, but what do I know, just being a kid, born in 81, playing Barracuda on my Commodore 64, poor joystick lol
@simon gr8 monologue as ever my friend. At 56 I remember those times equally well. Every point you hit in this piece resonates 100% with me and my community ☦️
Any one remember baz luhrmamn? Sunscreen? I played this song over and over like a pink floyd album to discect any meaning from it,if you play this song now compared to 30 years ago the lyrics are still true,and fuk all has changed really.But what a song..bless the 90s too.
Convenience and comfort.. when you compare the high street to Amazon, like you said - it’s a no brainer. It’s a seduction of genius, and it’s diabolic! If you make life decisions based on this, then it’s all ‘small world, me me me’ thinking. You have to look at the bigger picture. You have to have a morality. Otherwise, like you said, at some point the 10 million unemployed will start wanting your stuff. That’s morality - what’s good for the majority, even if the majority don’t see it. Along with ‘convenience and comfort’ they’ve pushed ‘none of my business’. Don’t get involved with ‘politics’ or ‘big ideas’. So people end up ‘following the science’, and we know where that ends up! Good vid Simon 👍
Everything you said was true. I can remember some things being free that we now have to pay for. I recently had my truck demolished in a crash and I thought it would be the last one that I would own. I had to buy a new one and when I made the deal the salesman told me of all the fantastic things it would do for. me. I can see where it is at all times and can start it or lock it over wifi. The Navi would route me around any traffic mess also. What they didn't tell me it would do was to track me and my driving habits 24/7 and then give that information to insurance companies and whoever else wanted it. Comfort and convenience always come at a price and that is our freedom. Recently the ATF raided a man's home with an assault force of at least ten men armed to the teeth. They had been watching him for over. a month and could have served a warrant on him at any of his known stops but instead chose to break in his front door at six in the morning. When he heard the noise he retrieved his gun and shot at the floor in front of the intruder and he was then shot in the head by the agent. There are videos of the whole incident by the man's own doorbell camera and the neighbor's cameras. They thought that the man was selling guns illegally at a gun show. I guess they had a warrant for his murder. Now we have a Gestapo-like police force here in the States.
@thewoodlander9868 I remember seeing adverts of the 60s selling the idea that washing machines would lead to more leisure time for women,the same bait used now freeing us from some sort of slavery preconceived onto us as a means of control.
Great thread Woody.... I'm 66 now and the 70's and the 80's were a time best described as lacking 'heaviness' Positive times, despite the labour crises and fuel nightmares. Freedom of speech and real MEN and WOMEN were still involved in community. A sense of hope
You talk so much sense. Like you, I see the world closing in, squeezing us everywhere. CBDC being the ultimate control tool. If only we could have our own banks outside the control system. Falling into dispair 😢
In the 80 life was so match better❤. I was a punker . Hang out whit your friends, cooking and living together, going to small festivals. We all hath dogs and cats, going to the vet was 💰 no problem. If you go now to a vet whit your dog for a simple ear infection it cost 300 euro because investment company's own all the vetenary clinics. I wish i good go back to the 80, people hath a bigger ❤ and hath more energy. The sun was shining in peoples ❤ and in the sky. This year i saw in januari one day a blue sky without stripes. Everybody around me including me, are sick a lot of times this winter because there is way to matcht rain and no sun😢. Powerlove from the Netherlands
Thank you. I think you’re right. Walking away and living in the real world, the physical one, is certainly one solution or part of a solution. I’m doing that, largely, whilst considering how to be like those Stalingrad film heroes, lying still for a long time whilst planning, metaphorically speaking of course. My new hobby? Permaculture food forests. And listening to God.
P.S. I grew up early 70s when you were a tomboy because dresses weren’t practical in rural England, you got hand-me-down clothes from your older brother and you liked being outside with the dog, horses, cattle, chickens and guinea pigs. Our neighbour once brought his pet ferret into our house (think to watch the 15 mins of cartoons for kids-they didn’t have a tv and lived in the woods). My Mum wasn’t too pleased about that but she didn’t make a hullabaloo about it either. 😅 She was one amazing lady. Teacher by day, 3 course meal on table every night at 7pm, ran house and garden, redid dry stone walls, created massive veg garden even with dill and rhubarb in it, gooseberries, raspberries, everything really, stripped paint off skirting boards, painted, wallpapered. God took her at 51. She’d had a hysterectomy a decade earlier and they’d left the ovaries in (a ticking timebomb apparently). Ovarian cancer. Diagnosis to grave in 3 months. God takes the loveliest flowers first. She provided an amazing example. I just got my chickens yesterday. Working on rest of it!
The eighties was the third most prosperous decade here in the US. The others being the 1890's and the 1950's. 1) Highest GDP in American history. 2) More people moved into the middle-class than any other time in our history. 3) Record home ownership and automobile purchases.
My current thinking is to make the most of the next 5 to 10 years. Travel, work as little as possible, enjoy life as best you can and try to enjoy the decline.
Great video. I believe that we have much more materially comfortable and easier lives now than people did before, but far more mentally taxing and spiritually unfulfilling. I grew up in the 90s, would take how things were then over now in a heartbeat. We have this paradox where we live under all these restrictions and H&S rules, yet we know those at the very top have little regard for human life. No one is allowed to have an accident, but we'll all be allowed to die in WW3 should it come to it. Now I've worked in factories where H&S is definitely needed and sensible, but it's got to the point where people are nervous about any organised activity in case anything goes wrong. Of course as an individual someone can still go ahead and do something stupid, and if it goes wrong 'our NHS' will come and save them - if the ambulance gets there in time or at all. I have spent periods of time un-employed and just pursuing my hobbies. I found though it's obviously quite nice, at times you do find yourself with struggling with a lack of purpose and drive. I also didn't get a huge amount of satisfaction in the office jobs I have worked either though. Something I have heard argued is that most jobs these days are BS, and they'll introduce UBI because it'll be more cost effective to pay people not to work than to create and maintain BS jobs for them to do. If UBI becomes widespread I can see some people adapting to it like people already do when retiring and find other things to fill their lives with. Some will end up retreating inside and in front of the screen, even if you hate your job it will usually involve getting out the house and socially interacting with other people. Surely it would cause further rifts in society too, there will always be jobs that are not automated for whatever reason.
Oh my god, I remember playing 'Track and Field' in the arcades. You would have to press the buttons so fast you'd literally sprain your fingers trying to run! 😂
Good upload. 70’s 80’s the best times never to return. Biggest difference is the effect on the Country of forced mass immigration along with controlled media both mainstream and social and the smartphone to anaesthetise the population on their inevitable decline and demise.
1997 labour get power,9/11 and the beginning of the internet was when everything started eroding,look us all now,people use to be wholesome with character, now the world we have now seems sterile and infantile .
Take the best bits of every era, delete all the worst bits of every era, if we find any bits that would benefit us then would we have the best complete world and life??, this is what we want, no compromise no discussion, and we demand it in perpetuity, 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Really need to get it in the head that parliament does not deal in law, it deals in Acts and Statutes which are little more than corporate policy for a Dun and Bradstreet registered corporation, they are all registered [for profit] corporations. Also remember their own rules dictate what they can do, that's what they can do...not you, not I, not granny or Joe in Asda.
Yall fsmiliar with Michael O Bernicia Universal Community Trust project. Smart guy with similiar goals . Scottish . Currency. He done the mortgage fraud research. Big on Common Law.
It was mostly better of course. But the plan was already long set in motion by then, just not as visible obviously. The acceleration of our destruction over the last decade and a half has been immense.
😂 I like the era now as there is truth out there. I feel music was simmlar any era of time and truth was hidden better many years ago. I am still finding stuff and my eyes are more open to things going on. The past is the past and even if someone made me miss my past I wouldn't be in the now. Still you all can have eras you miss and want to go back to. Same shit back then likely been going on without anyone knowing or caring? Still I likely younger and no era I been in I have miss. I am happy there are video and media of the past and now. 😅 I have a problem with change so wanting the past will not help it. Being warm, safe and feed as well as love better. Sorry I likely given up at 3 mins in and someone time stamp intetesting bits please.
I find it ironic, how being a truck driver I pull in $1200/week or $60,000+ a year. And I’m single. So well under 15 years I can be completely retired and own a plot of land. And yet it doesn’t require massive skill/training. Now I’m not saying there isn’t those involved, but nothing in the level of computer training. Plus no debt in the schooling to learn.
it was a time before mobile phones and social media.............its a definite yes
I was a punk rocker in the 80s. Best decade of my Life
I would be back to the 80s 90s in a flash not everything was great but what I miss most was the high trust society we still had across the south west you agreed a price and shook hands now you spend hours doing quotes and emails.
21:00 " *It's a free country!* " Haven't heard that traditional retort in years. Common to my generation, even in our playgrounds in the 1960s & '70s: " *It's a free country!* " We children & teens of the *1960s & '70s* had more freedom than adults do today. More proof that today's adults have become *infantilised* - - complicit in their own infantilisation.
George Orwell's astute dissection of totalitarianism, under the guide of fiction in *Nineteen Eighty Four* , shows how citizens are infantilised by *Big Brother* .
I was born in 96, always felt like I was in the wrong time. I'd go back further than 80s to a pre industrial age.
It was industrial bud , but not green industrial etc
Great message Woodlander enjoyed listening 💯👍
Cheers curtis
Technology has ruined humanity; the great dehumanizer...
A good talk and threw me back to the 70's 80's. April was a time of bloom with the odd April shower. Well, now every day seems like the same day - stuck in this groudhog day. grey, miserable carpet of cloud cover - like a bad repeat of some old movie. Summers were sometimes so hot my feet would feel like they were burning as I walked barefoot on the pavement. The sky seemed bluer and life revolved around nature, climbing trees, lashing up swings, making dens, playing cowboys and Indians in the woods, seeking out frogs and newts in the various ponds near by. And, converting out bikes to having longer forks; drag-car style. Making ramps to propel ourselves into the air and over our friends bodies all Evil Knievel style. My point is, technology not only stole away jobs, but also childhoods. I don't feel it's done us any favours and even though life is more comfortable I'm finding people are less sociable and less happy. The high street wasn't just a place to shop but it was also a place to merge with humanity and communicate in real life. Pubs were places, men mostly, would discuss politics, union affairs, cars and sports. And so many pubs have closed down due to cheap booze in the supermarkets, netfix and the smoking ban. It's as though the elite want to isolate us from each other so we don't discuss the things we once did.The whispers are out in regards to policing the internet. Kids are obsessed with technology and exposed to disturbing content online and on their phones. It's as though we are being herded into the slaughter house with the promise of something better but heading into a nightmare. Life seems duller and less exciting -- less vibrant. And yes the music is shite.
A brilliant response. Thank you
Very well put. The colour really has gone out of life, there aren't the "characters" that there used to be, and people are less content and sociable, but are ruder and more miserable. I try to make the most of the simple pleasures in life - watching a sunset, enjoying beautiful wild flowers like bluebells and poppies, and having a laugh with a friend. Laughter seems to be in short supply now, it's harder to find things to laugh at.
I was a child in the 80’s but a grunge teen in the 90’s best times for me personally.. nostalgia. But totally understand, well said.
A simpler time when not everything relied on technology
Brilliant video, The Woodlander.
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Thank you mate
You're not wrong about the rain mate. It's been total dogsh!te.
I've hardly done any full weeks this year.
Old lad I work with says this is the worst year he's ever had.
Ah well, at least they can't get a robot to do stonework int middle of nowhere 🤷🏻♂️
Wettest 18month stretch on record.. I'm off to build an ark
90s was amazing.
Off down the rec, do some ramp-jumps. Might ride down their with Max, him on me handlebars - I’ll give him a knock… Five hours later went home for dinner. Then had to write Nan a thank you letter for me birthday present.
Dear Nan…
Youth club disco… what a blast.
‘Baggy Trousers …
Dancing, laughter; a hall full of young-beings with a sense of belonging, yes… a sense of belonging.
Along came the giant supermarkets, local shops began to board up, communities scattered.
Along came the mobile phone and internet… independent imagination thinned - loneliness quadrupled.
Then grew the media… FEAR and danger tenfold X10.
70’ 80’ 90’ =better days. ✅ I’m not living in the past, however, by god, we all need to take a few giant steps back and regroup.
Great video Woodlander.
Many thanks.
👍
There was an energy to the 80's that was pretty much spent by the mid 90's. For kids and young adults, it was great. We were in the middle of two worlds. We played outside, sat at the same desks in school as our parents had, with the empty inkwell holes still there, got taught with a blackboard and watched in awe at all the technology slowly starting to emerge. All done to the backdrop off great music and films.
The 80's is like the Nexus...we'd do anything to get back to it.
we still occupied most of our nations and the demographics were way better .. but the destruction was beginning and the signs were there all along of what "they" were going to do to us ( USA already had Hart-Celler act in 1965 and the civil rights movement began a serious antiWhite effort )
The 80s were miles better.
Today He-Man would hold aloft his magic sword and proclaim that he was…
*”The Most Powerful **-Man-** Pronoun in the Universe!”*
Hello jewel, long time no see again, hope you are well mate 👍
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Belting content as always mate.
I'd go back to the 70s and 80s any time! Bring on that time machine. We had real skies, real food (well mainly)better weather, in fact, so much was better. No smart tech! We went out with our mates and we sat on the common green and we went to the beach etc...Despite hyper inflation of 17% with mortgage rates, despite the three day week (70s) and despite Thatcher. I miss it
I quite agree. I feel so lucky to have been born in the 60's, and to have experienced life as probably the best it's ever been - at least in the UK. To have freedom as a child was priceless, riding horses, bikes, walking and playing in the countryside without adults being present was a luxury that few children enjoy now. Crime was a fraction of what it is now, it was so much safer, most people were decent, mannerly and friendlier, there genuinely were real communities, police and ambulances came to you promptly if they were needed, NHS services were vastly better, roads weren't full of potholes, people drove more safely and considerately, things were made to last - appliances lasted much longer than they do now... That's just off the top of my head, I could think of many other things that were so much better than they are now. Most people were happier, healthier and less stressed, people actually smiled and laughed regularly. I think few people are genuinely content now, most are burdened to varying degrees with problems and worries. I appreciate that not everybody had those luxuries, life was still very tough for some. What I wouldn't give to go back to those innocent times! As the saying goes "you don't know what you've got till it's gone".
Cracking video pal, really interesting one again, keep up with the great content brother, we’re on the right path in life. 👍🏻👏🏻🇬🇧🏴
Many thanks jake
@@thewoodlander9868 😉🏴
Went out on my own at 17 in 1976, spent my time working and trying to become a responsible adult. Married at 18, first kid at 21, bought the first home at 25. Although I was aware of the changes, I avoided it, didnt like it, knew it wasnt going to be good. I still avoid as much as possible. I want to go home, back to the 70s, times were hard but people were still real, life was real. When they said tech would make life easier and better, I knew it was a lie and was always chastised for being so old fashioned. Get with it, move forward or get left behind they said, I wonder if any of those people ever think about those conversations they had with me back then ?
I think, what killed the High Street, was the excessive parking charges and war on the motorist. Too many parking restrictions, zones, made to make our lives awkward.
Hi Woodlander. Glad seeing you again.😊
I grew up in the 1960's. For me that was the best time. All the 60's music...Beatles...Dave Clark five...Rolling stones...Jimi Hendrix...Led Zeppelin...The Monkees
Was a Favorite of mine when I was 11 years old. Still holds a place in my heart. Such good music. We were lucky to have experienced that. Everything has gone down hill. I hate seeing my grandchildren addicted to the video games...cell phones...etc... Children should be outdoors riding bikes...being in nature...playing ball or badminton... anything! It's sad to see that rarely do children play outdoors. I rode my bike a lot in the 60's. In my neighborhood with friends at times. You don't see that anymore. So much has changed.
Anyway I agree with your comments. Thank you for another great video. I love your "ramblings" as you called them. Take care. 😊💞
Thank you helena
The 1980s and 90s were good for me. Even in 1999, I had hope for the future. The world still seemed normal. Today, I see an ever widening abyss in front of me...
I've said this before; I grew up in the sixties and seventies...with regards to music...the best time. With regards to the nation and our culture it seemed a paradise. I talk to a lot of youth about 20 yrs old or younger, and tell them what it was like growing up in those times. Honestly, they look at me with that look that says, 'nah, you're just making that sh*t up...' Honestly I can't blame them. If this dystopia we now live in is all that they've known, how would they know any different...
The Apple I went on sale in July 1976 at a price of US$666.66
70s about the best decade since the great war years.
Hiya Simon 😊 I actually remember a lot from 1975 onwards, though only born in '73. These decades were great to grow up in, though obviously there were many troubles as well. Even the power cuts of the '70's seemed fun as a child and house holds would all check on each other concerning candles, food etc and obviously the weather was amazing, beautiful summers and proper winter snow. Again fun but also caring. I struggle with what I've brought my daughters and grandson into and only hope that somehow I can contribute to your Inituitive so that they can grow up in an environment of nature and real souls who think and feel as I believe we were meant to. I loved the new wave era, died my hair black, tassly skirts. Was 16 at the start of the raves in '89 and had my own flat in Liverpool by 18, working, studying and just enjoying friends and all walks of life. I'm 51 now and been made unemployable by the brutal medical industry and have to beg and be totally demoralised and dehumanised by the whole system. I just want to live and give and yet I'm stuck with nothing, left feeling a waste of space and some would say 'a drain on society'. I have started a bee keeping course so hopefully that can be helpful in the future as food and medicine for my family and all surrounding though this seems miniscule in the greater picture. I was never fortunate enough to own my own house as if I did I would of sold it by now, moved to an acre with the inituitive and give the rest towards others. I keep praying that somehow this will happen as there is no other way to actually live and be healthy and happy, loving and giving. I do remember remember 'it's a free country' being said often and people being happy not 'offended' by this saying. I love what your doing Simon and pray regularly that God brings you, me and all of the inituitive all that you/we need to live the soulful life intended. Thank you for all you have brought to us. Many want to help and start recreating but didn't know where to start. Big love and God bless to you and your family and all who's here. Thank you again🌳🌺🐝
Thank you so much Joanne, comments like that really help. Keep shining bright.
I could listen to you talk for hours, Simon. You have a lovely relaxing voice and demeanour. You are right about the rock music 🎸 being better in the 80's.. I'm a 90's chick, so I think 80's and 90's were the easiest decades that society has ever had. Then Blaire came in, and it all slowly began to go down hill. Keep doing what you do, my friend, you are an anchor! ⚓ I have been thinking about May, but undecided if I can make it due to rectifying health issues (nothing life threatening just something I should have done years ago). I wish you well, and look forward to the next seminar ♥
Cheers!!!! Absolutely 80s are the best really 70s!!!!
Thanks for this video, I had forgotten about having to dial up to the internet, how time flies, now it`s all wifi. I remember in my first job in the 80`s, having to learn how to use a computer to write my own letters which the office secretary had previously done obviously putting her out of a job. Technology is enslaving us all and sadly people do not realise it. When you lose your job and no longer have the same purpose, you find a new one, most of us are now researching what`s going on in the world and joining forces to help each other. Bit by bit I am withdrawing myself out of their system as much as I can.
I applaud your initiative and words coming from the heart sir, it's really soothing knowing that are people coming up with ideas and fighting the good fight. Really interesting fact what you said about your Graphic Design journey, how computers took over before you could even practice what you loved properly. I'm a 29 yo Romanian that finished Graphic Comms in Norwich and I'm so grateful for the time and teachings that I got in the UK; sadly now I see many friends that had truly artistic inspirations being broken by all sorts of "Design Agencies", following the same trends, always having to learn some new program, incorporating AI in their work in order to be able to keep their jobs and so on. In university they said print is dead...hopefully with time people will get back to drawing more, screen printing their own clothes, woodcutting, pyrography and all these techniques that bring so much joy and meditation in ones life. I hope that you're still being creative through all of this! God bless you 🌞
Still drawing and creating art.. cheers for the comment
I think you should ramble more often chief. Thank you so much as always. Appreciated 🔥🙏
Thank you for listening
Awww how I miss the 80s
Criminal justice bill in 94 put an end to the rave scene. The Castlemorton free festival awakened the powers that be to tighten the thumb screws even more on our freedom. That was a festival of love and peace, until the police turned up heavy handed. I think they made it so you couldn’t have 8 or more people standing together listening to repetitive music! That’s when it became commercialised by the big companies and went downhill from there into the early 2000’s to the crap we hear now.
i protested against it ,for all the good it did
Social engineering.
@@annaclements3390 I know. We didn’t stand a chance!
The rave scene never really stopped it just went totally underground and was kept really small. I was still going to raves well into the 00's and there were quite a few small festivals that kept rave alive. Beatherder started off as a bit of a rave in a farmers woods and they still have the rave in the woods as part of the festival.
@@pennywabbit3684 I did actually go to a few small raves over the last few years here in Dorset. There are a few underground sound systems floating about and yes it’s good to keep the movement going but it’s definitely got a different vibe to it now and I’m also 50 so it’s all a little different for myself now,no mad three day festivals but I do still produce Trance music
We didn't have as many of these for a start...🕌☪️🕌...so yes.👍
Agreed
Personally the 80,s was better for me.A no brainer.
A simpler time, which begs the question, has technology really made things more convenient
Absolutely not! It had complicated and globalised everything!@@thewoodlander9868
Technology has... for the elite, who have "people" to handle the minutia of I.T. they reap billions.
@@thewoodlander9868convenient, yes.
Let’s take a moment and measure the value of convenience. Everything has its benefits and detriments.
It could have been me speaking - it is such a huge spark to keep the fire going to hear your words. Some of your videos I choose in my unschooling curriculum at home. Fantastic work. Keep it up! Greetings from across the pond.
Always great to hear from you
The 80s were a time of adventure for me. I left college a qualified young person. Walked into a job, passed my driving test, got my own flat, travelled the world, played football, became a military reservist, followed music...loved that era.
A lot of rain here too in the Midwest. I barely got my fruit orchard in the ground yesterday. For me it was the 90s. And yes they felt better, but thinking of the Tytler cycle, times have to get hard for the good to rise through.
They are disguising hard times with that old comfort and convenience...
Very true bud.
@@thewoodlander9868 Yes, they sure are. Our family has decided to cut off the electronics for awhile, because the comfort and escapism has just made us in a sort of daze. It's a hard decision with all my 6 teenagers, but I know how much better things can be and I want that for them. Pray for us! We want change and to take life by the horns instead of just being zombies addicted to our machines.
absolutely spot on sir.... & I was a long haired headbanger :)
I genuinely feel sorry for kids these days..
👍 good to see you again. Yes I agree 💯
Theve got us by the short and curlies folks
I always share with friends and family.... love your videos the 80's were best of times
Thank you
Gud vid, I miss the 80s n 90s
Great words, my friend. I often envy those who grew up in the eighties.
Don't.. we're old as fuck
The 80s and 90s were amazing: such an exciting time... All things were possible. I stated as an IT Engineer working for Canon uk.. I had the first Business PC.
Best years life was so simple
I can't say the 80's were that spectacular, had some rough patches. Got through them which made the 90's much more memorable.
Enjoyed that Woodlander. The Commodore 64 is still a powerhouse with its superb sid chip. Great stuff though and agree with your general thoughts.
Thanks woodlander, always wise words
Cheers adian
Gud vid Simon. The 80s were so good for me in every way, optimistic. Being a touring gigging musician it was massive. When we heard of any new tech it was usually a way to create new music. Who knew the dystopian shit show that technology was to usher in. Like you say though, not all bad.
It's always been a double edged sword..
love you video keep it up your grate👍🙌
Thank you Matthew
@@thewoodlander9868 it's OK, I've been watching youand Richard Vobes over 2 years now. Hope we can end up being free and waking people up together
I remember getting excited having a go on one of the first video games.. Tennis.. Two white rectangular blocks batting a smaller white block from side to side.. It got boring after a bit.. 😅
Short answer, yes, long answer is too upsetting 🇬🇧 😢
I hear that
The 80's was a great time, but it was a false sense of freedom. Hell was already there, but the Devil's mask hadn't fully come off yet, so life was "still" pretty good, but what do I know, just being a kid, born in 81, playing Barracuda on my Commodore 64, poor joystick lol
Thank you Simon, on point as usual ( I was a Commodore 64 lad, and yes the cassette tape uploads were a nightmare !!)
I road Motorbikes , loved working on them , It's good to chat about the 80's and 90's , Computer dial up speeds , ans Spectrum load in times !
Cheers bob
@simon gr8 monologue as ever my friend. At 56 I remember those times equally well. Every point you hit in this piece resonates 100% with me and my community ☦️
Nietzche warned us of this...'the last man'...is here.
Any one remember baz luhrmamn? Sunscreen? I played this song over and over like a pink floyd album to discect any meaning from it,if you play this song now compared to 30 years ago the lyrics are still true,and fuk all has changed really.But what a song..bless the 90s too.
That was on the radio just 5he other day.. proper blast from the past
Lovely to see you Simon
Always nice to seebyou in the comments
If the 15k subs got involved things would change. Gud vid woody
True that....
Having no purpose is not good. Motivation disappears and procrastination sets in because nothing really matters without having that purpose.
Convenience and comfort.. when you compare the high street to Amazon, like you said - it’s a no brainer. It’s a seduction of genius, and it’s diabolic! If you make life decisions based on this, then it’s all ‘small world, me me me’ thinking. You have to look at the bigger picture. You have to have a morality. Otherwise, like you said, at some point the 10 million unemployed will start wanting your stuff. That’s morality - what’s good for the majority, even if the majority don’t see it. Along with ‘convenience and comfort’ they’ve pushed ‘none of my business’. Don’t get involved with ‘politics’ or ‘big ideas’. So people end up ‘following the science’, and we know where that ends up! Good vid Simon 👍
Cheers frank
Everything you said was true. I can remember some things being free that we now have to pay for. I recently had my truck demolished in a crash and I thought it would be the last one that I would own. I had to buy a new one and when I made the deal the salesman told me of all the fantastic things it would do for. me. I can see where it is at all times and can start it or lock it over wifi. The Navi would route me around any traffic mess also. What they didn't tell me it would do was to track me and my driving habits 24/7 and then give that information to insurance companies and whoever else wanted it. Comfort and convenience always come at a price and that is our freedom. Recently the ATF raided a man's home with an assault force of at least ten men armed to the teeth. They had been watching him for over. a month and could have served a warrant on him at any of his known stops but instead chose to break in his front door at six in the morning. When he heard the noise he retrieved his gun and shot at the floor in front of the intruder and he was then shot in the head by the agent. There are videos of the whole incident by the man's own doorbell camera and the neighbor's cameras. They thought that the man was selling guns illegally at a gun show. I guess they had a warrant for his murder. Now we have a Gestapo-like police force here in the States.
It was much better even with Thatcher and the threat of nuclear annihilation
The 80s and 90s were way better evening here in Northern Ireland, and we were blowing the 💩 out of eachother
Convenience, equals depence and lack of more options.
Agreed
@thewoodlander9868 I remember seeing adverts of the 60s selling the idea that washing machines would lead to more leisure time for women,the same bait used now freeing us from some sort of slavery preconceived onto us as a means of control.
Great video
I live in the 80s and 90s everyday .
My 12 year old loves old music. Beatles (b4 and after fake Paul) up to Nirvana. I hope with that, there's some hope 😊
Good taste
Hello woodlander i always try to get what i need local, but I end up using ebay. Like you said..
Great thread Woody.... I'm 66 now and the 70's and the 80's were a time best described as lacking 'heaviness' Positive times, despite the labour crises and fuel nightmares. Freedom of speech and real MEN and WOMEN were still involved in community. A sense of hope
You mean those old fashioned women, the ones without cocks.. lol
You talk so much sense. Like you, I see the world closing in, squeezing us everywhere. CBDC being the ultimate control tool. If only we could have our own banks outside the control system. Falling into dispair 😢
In the 80 life was so match better❤. I was a punker . Hang out whit your friends, cooking and living together, going to small festivals. We all hath dogs and cats, going to the vet was 💰 no problem. If you go now to a vet whit your dog for a simple ear infection it cost 300 euro because investment company's own all the vetenary clinics.
I wish i good go back to the 80, people hath a bigger ❤ and hath more energy. The sun was shining in peoples ❤ and in the sky. This year i saw in januari one day a blue sky without stripes. Everybody around me including me, are sick a lot of times this winter because there is way to matcht rain and no sun😢. Powerlove from the Netherlands
Thank you. I think you’re right. Walking away and living in the real world, the physical one, is certainly one solution or part of a solution. I’m doing that, largely, whilst considering how to be like those Stalingrad film heroes, lying still for a long time whilst planning, metaphorically speaking of course. My new hobby? Permaculture food forests. And listening to God.
P.S. I grew up early 70s when you were a tomboy because dresses weren’t practical in rural England, you got hand-me-down clothes from your older brother and you liked being outside with the dog, horses, cattle, chickens and guinea pigs. Our neighbour once brought his pet ferret into our house (think to watch the 15 mins of cartoons for kids-they didn’t have a tv and lived in the woods). My Mum wasn’t too pleased about that but she didn’t make a hullabaloo about it either. 😅 She was one amazing lady. Teacher by day, 3 course meal on table every night at 7pm, ran house and garden, redid dry stone walls, created massive veg garden even with dill and rhubarb in it, gooseberries, raspberries, everything really, stripped paint off skirting boards, painted, wallpapered. God took her at 51. She’d had a hysterectomy a decade earlier and they’d left the ovaries in (a ticking timebomb apparently). Ovarian cancer. Diagnosis to grave in 3 months. God takes the loveliest flowers first. She provided an amazing example. I just got my chickens yesterday. Working on rest of it!
Good luck with the chickens, they are wonderful birds.. hours of enjoyment watching them
The eighties was the third most prosperous decade here in the US. The others being the 1890's and the 1950's.
1) Highest GDP in American history.
2) More people moved into the middle-class than any other time in our history.
3) Record home ownership and automobile purchases.
My current thinking is to make the most of the next 5 to 10 years. Travel, work as little as possible, enjoy life as best you can and try to enjoy the decline.
Great video. I believe that we have much more materially comfortable and easier lives now than people did before, but far more mentally taxing and spiritually unfulfilling. I grew up in the 90s, would take how things were then over now in a heartbeat. We have this paradox where we live under all these restrictions and H&S rules, yet we know those at the very top have little regard for human life. No one is allowed to have an accident, but we'll all be allowed to die in WW3 should it come to it. Now I've worked in factories where H&S is definitely needed and sensible, but it's got to the point where people are nervous about any organised activity in case anything goes wrong. Of course as an individual someone can still go ahead and do something stupid, and if it goes wrong 'our NHS' will come and save them - if the ambulance gets there in time or at all.
I have spent periods of time un-employed and just pursuing my hobbies. I found though it's obviously quite nice, at times you do find yourself with struggling with a lack of purpose and drive. I also didn't get a huge amount of satisfaction in the office jobs I have worked either though. Something I have heard argued is that most jobs these days are BS, and they'll introduce UBI because it'll be more cost effective to pay people not to work than to create and maintain BS jobs for them to do. If UBI becomes widespread I can see some people adapting to it like people already do when retiring and find other things to fill their lives with. Some will end up retreating inside and in front of the screen, even if you hate your job it will usually involve getting out the house and socially interacting with other people. Surely it would cause further rifts in society too, there will always be jobs that are not automated for whatever reason.
A really thoughtful response, thank you
I think with simple open honesty from the establishment - Westminster and the media - 90% of the problems would evaporate.
Commodore 64, track and field. Spent many of hours button bashing on that 💪
Oh my god, I remember playing 'Track and Field' in the arcades.
You would have to press the buttons so fast you'd literally sprain your fingers trying to run! 😂
It went from that, to onlyfans and apps to park your car...
@@thewoodlander9868 yeah it's clear how it's been implemented when you look at. Tippy toes then 100 mph 👍
@@BlueRadleys7152 haha yeah. I had lots of finger cramps, give it 5 mins then go again 😂
I had the spectrum zx!
80s and 90s where much better and that’s growing up in Glasgow 👍🏻🏴🇬🇧
Nice one brucey
Good upload. 70’s 80’s the best times never to return. Biggest difference is the effect on the Country of forced mass immigration along with controlled media both mainstream and social and the smartphone to anaesthetise the population on their inevitable decline and demise.
1997 labour get power,9/11 and the beginning of the internet was when everything started eroding,look us all now,people use to be wholesome with character, now the world we have now seems sterile and infantile .
Daley Thompsons decathalon on the Commodore 64!
Take the best bits of every era, delete all the worst bits of every era, if we find any bits that would benefit us then would we have the best complete world and life??, this is what we want, no compromise no discussion, and we demand it in perpetuity, 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Nice take john
thank you , the last 5 mins ❤
Sometimes it's worth waiting till the end... cheers anna
Never used Amazog, never will....
God bless.
Hi Simon, I'd like to get involved in the regional groups in the North East. Let me know how we would proceed.
Cheers steve. I'll be posting a video to the members news section this week..
Really need to get it in the head that parliament does not deal in law, it deals in Acts and Statutes which are little more than corporate policy for a Dun and Bradstreet registered corporation, they are all registered [for profit] corporations.
Also remember their own rules dictate what they can do, that's what they can do...not you, not I, not granny or Joe in Asda.
Yall fsmiliar with Michael O Bernicia Universal Community Trust project. Smart guy with similiar goals . Scottish . Currency. He done the mortgage fraud research. Big on Common Law.
The death of the high street.. Like everything else if you don't use it.. You'll loose it!
It was mostly better of course. But the plan was already long set in motion by then, just not as visible obviously. The acceleration of our destruction over the last decade and a half has been immense.
Lovely talk as always. Thank you!
😂 I like the era now as there is truth out there. I feel music was simmlar any era of time and truth was hidden better many years ago. I am still finding stuff and my eyes are more open to things going on. The past is the past and even if someone made me miss my past I wouldn't be in the now. Still you all can have eras you miss and want to go back to. Same shit back then likely been going on without anyone knowing or caring? Still I likely younger and no era I been in I have miss. I am happy there are video and media of the past and now. 😅 I have a problem with change so wanting the past will not help it. Being warm, safe and feed as well as love better. Sorry I likely given up at 3 mins in and someone time stamp intetesting bits please.
Bout time someone speaks to this. IMO there's alot of this tech that needs to be walked back.
Yes. 👍🏻
They're innocently licensing crossbows in uk
I find it ironic, how being a truck driver I pull in $1200/week or $60,000+ a year. And I’m single. So well under 15 years I can be completely retired and own a plot of land. And yet it doesn’t require massive skill/training. Now I’m not saying there isn’t those involved, but nothing in the level of computer training. Plus no debt in the schooling to learn.
What are your thoughts on this registering your chickens
Mine have been registered for years.