Do I still have to be politically brainwormed? Because George Bush is president and evolution is a hot button culture war issue (just before it was called the culture war)
I was a freshman-sophmore in '06 and Bill O'Reilly was on about the "Culture War" back in 2001 when my parents started watching him every night starting in September. Thankfully the more I listened to Bill, the easier it was to remove brain worms.
It was probably worse for Gay/Lesbian people, possibly neutral for Trans people only because there were so few out that you didn't have literally killing them
Probably better for POC in general because people become more racist when resources are scarce, also mayos knew nothing about non-white cultures, instead of knowing all the mayobrained cherrypicked shit and nothing else (muh gutter oil)
I was really young but I’d say they were probably better than now just because the zeitgeist was overall just more optimistic than today. 2006 would have been before even the recession. But the mid aughts were not “good.”
Nobody would believe half of it or listen. Hell people don't believe or listen when I talk about stuff that objectively happened when it's in the past, if I tried to tell people in 2006 about say COVID, I might as well be walking around with a sign saying, "The End Is Nigh!"
2006 isn't even that far out from SARS-CoV-1 so pretty sure people could wrap their heads around it.
What my past much libber self would struggle with is to understand just how willingly complicit every part of the social structure would be in enabling the spread in order to prop up the economy and just how fast consent would be manufactured, how fast we went from a strong sense of communal resistance to apathy.
Maybe that is what you meant but then again try telling the average person today that covid isn't over and you might as well walk around with a sign saying, "The End Is Nigh!"
If only to come out to my friends which I had had feelings for then yes. But I'd have to stay for 2 -3 years to meet and or actually hangout with them. Then if everything fast forwarded to the present afterwards I'd love to see the results. Probably would be jacked looking like Lean Beef Patty. Or if I had to retread my way through, invest in Bitcoin and hodl for as long as possible.