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ur grandpa lived to tell the tale (lemmy.world)
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[–] 101 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You mean just like how we learned about the 1920 pandemic?

Oh right, no we didn't. It was a footnote at best.

Our current lives really aren't all that special you know.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Uh, what? I absolutely was taught about the 1920s pandemic. Not so much about the disease itself or how the pandemic was handled, admittedly, but certainly about how it affected society and the politics of the time. It wasn't a whole unit by itself, but it was definitely more than a footnote.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I think this time period in humanity is very special. It really does feel like the make or break of humanity sometimes.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's because you're alive right now. Obviously the events you experience yourself seem weightier than the events you've only read about.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not in the same way.

    You could maybe argue atom bombs and cold war was a similar time for such crucial moments in humanity, but now we also got climate change, another rise in fascism, and we got tons of nukes on top. And plenty of other things which I won't bother to delve into because I should sleep.

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