Everyone has that one uncle who swears life was perfect “back in the day.” Appliances never broke, marriages never failed, music was pure magic, food was straight from nature, teachers were gods, and doctors knew everything. Sounds amazing… except it’s mostly nonsense. In this episode of FutureIQ, we travel back in time not to the fantasy version, but the real one. A world where life expectancy crawled at 32, half of all children didn’t survive, famines were normal, and your ‘durable’ fridge cost you half a year’s salary. We remember the hits, forget the misery, and call it nostalgia.
So why does the past look golden while the present feels chaotic? Why does every generation believe the world is falling apart, even when things are getting undeniably better? And why do our parents’ memories sound like a fairy tale that somehow skips all the poverty, danger, and randomness of life back then?
Join us as we unpack the myths, the selective memories, the psychological tricks, and the strange reason why progress often feels like decline. By the end of this episode, you might just realize one shocking truth: the world today isn’t perfect but the past sucked way more.