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If you think that, then you weren't paying attention.
Come you fools, obviously if you were not there and alive in person, the context of this comment clearly implies that you should have been paying attention in history class.
Most of Lemmy wasn't even alive.
The book 11/22/63 by Stephen King had a great scene about the Cuban Missile Crisis that I thought was amazing at humanizing the whole situation.
Before reading that scene, the Cuban Missile Crisis was a short blip in my highschool history book. I had a vague idea that the Russians were moving nukes to Cuba and the US said that would be crossing a line in the sand which they would consider a nuclear attack. But that was it.
The scene from the book tells it from a family's perspective going through all the fear and uncertainty that the average person was feeling. People were absolutely convinced that the world was ending. It's worth a read.
There was a mini series based on this book. Did not realize that that was yet another King novel.
How was the mini series? I've been meaning to check it out.
I enjoyed it. Very intense.
Spoken like someone that also didn't pay attention in class.
American education really skims over everything post WW2. Can't pay attention to things that aren't taught. What little that is covered, is done so I'm the last few weeks of senior year when everyone already knows that they've graduated.
Nor does history class delve into how things felt at the time. It's all abstracted dates and events.
So maybe lay off the flimsy insults and remember that not everyone has the same experiences as you.
Huh, the cold war seemed more like after an apocalypse, with all the rebuilding and tensions that didn't become large scale wars that leveled countries....