I mean, no they didn’t. Most people today weren’t alive to see what World War II was like. It was literally an entire shift in many nations where kids were being sent to die daily as cannon fodder and people were being genocided by the millions.
Can you imagine what it was like to be alive during the expansion of the Roman Empire, or the Mongolian Empire? Having your nation disappear as soldiers murdered everyone in power and raped and pillaged countries left and right?
Or the collapse of those superpowers? The collapse of the Roman Empire was earth shattering, economies failed at incredible speed, and people just starved as there was little way to buy or sell goods or services as things stabilized.
We’re just now far more hyper aware of the changes in the world because we get them as constant updates on our screens. But that means we should be more prepared to counter historical mistakes. Instead we are repeating them, and those in power are playing dollhouse with the world, again.
Only this time the effects are more permanent, because they not only affect the rise and fall of social systems and power, but also the literal ecological balance of the planet, which before now has never been dictated by human action like it is today.
This sentiment just seems so arrogant.
Literally every single moment is a moment no one in history has ever experienced before.
Time moves in a linear fashion. Wow. What a vapid observation.
The only thing we’ve got is to look into the past and understand our collective mistakes so we don’t make them again.
You do that by listening to people who were there and made those mistakes and learnt from them.
Old people have knowledge and wisdom, some of it is useful some of it is not. Just like every human.
You’re not on some wild frontier that’s never been tamed before though, there’s been over 100 billion humans who have existed.
Pretty sure their collective experiential knowledge could teach you something.
Things changed much less in the past.
I mean, no they didn’t. Most people today weren’t alive to see what World War II was like. It was literally an entire shift in many nations where kids were being sent to die daily as cannon fodder and people were being genocided by the millions.
Can you imagine what it was like to be alive during the expansion of the Roman Empire, or the Mongolian Empire? Having your nation disappear as soldiers murdered everyone in power and raped and pillaged countries left and right?
Or the collapse of those superpowers? The collapse of the Roman Empire was earth shattering, economies failed at incredible speed, and people just starved as there was little way to buy or sell goods or services as things stabilized.
We’re just now far more hyper aware of the changes in the world because we get them as constant updates on our screens. But that means we should be more prepared to counter historical mistakes. Instead we are repeating them, and those in power are playing dollhouse with the world, again.
Only this time the effects are more permanent, because they not only affect the rise and fall of social systems and power, but also the literal ecological balance of the planet, which before now has never been dictated by human action like it is today.