I seem to remember, for a short period in the late nineties, when things seemed to be getting better. Society seemed to be making genuine progress, albeit in baby steps. Tolerance, acceptance, and common sense seemed to be gradually pushing bigotry, intolerance and ignorance into the past where they belong.
Or maybe I was just the right age at the right time, and was merely observing the world through my last scraps of youthful optimism and naivety as I entered adulthood.
