• @PugJesusOPM
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    52 months ago

    'twas a different time. No phones, letters took weeks or months to get to their recipients, communities, especially of persecuted political minorities like socialists, could be very tight-knit. Also, not much else to do, especially if you weren’t fabulously wealthy. This is the era when parlor games first came into fashion, after all.

    • @Sanctus
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      62 months ago

      Thats one thing I always forget the magnitude of, the sheer amount of boredom present. These people didn’t have a million different things eating at their attention constantly. Information and stimuli were slower and fewer between.