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![[AUDIO] Media from the Past Is Radicalizing](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VDL8!,w_140,h_140,c_fill,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-video.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fvideo_upload%2Fpost%2F185550648%2Fd3618889-1d65-4446-9c29-c6bddc356628%2Ftranscoded-1769184465.png)
Footage and pictures from the past really are something. The people are well-dressed and healthy-looking, not obese and in t-shirts or pajamas. The population is sociable and happy, not a rotten collection of migrants and criminals. Even where the footage shows relatively poor people, particularly by modern standards, it is evident that Western civilization was intact.
Take, for example, this video of English village life in the 50s: