The Spencer Street End

The Spencer Street End

Back to the Future

Is this why living feels so hard?

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Jacinta Parsons
Apr 19, 2026
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Michael J Fox has a lot to answer for. Those Back to the Future films fed an optimism that ultimately brain-washed us into believing that if we could just go back—adjust a few things—we would return to a better version of what was ahead. I was the gullible kid that believed that greed and power would eventually die-off because injustice couldn’t sustain…

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