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I grew up in a time of optimism, but the foundation was already completely rotten.
Even as a child I understood the societal contradictions. Love thy neighbor and let he who is without sin cast the first stone, but gay people are demons spreading AIDS and disease, they should be killed. Immigrants are taking our jobs, but our bosses who are hiring them to replace us bare no blame. We should feed the less fortunate, but the black ones are welfare queens who are having babies just to get free money.
On TV, though, everything was PERFECT. Black people and white people got along. Black people could even be doctors. Churches helped out the poor. People working minimum wage jobs could afford nice homes in high cost of living places and have big families on that single income. In real life, none of that was to be taken at face value.
A rewind button, I suspect, will never get you back to a place where the future is truly better. The zombie apocalypse is pure fiction. What we have is much worse. And even in the zombie fiction, it's often what's worse that ends up being the focus, with the zombies and the apocalypse just serving as a place setting.