>inserts any century< huh. Yup. Still works. Me thinks perhaps this may not be a new phenomenon. Maybe it is often the case we don't recognize history until it's.... in the past? Like the school that flunked Hitler probably didn't realize another crappy student would be a name one day known around the world, or a butcher. And perhaps we are making as much history as ever? Like it's much easier to figure out how to open nuts with a rock than it is to accelerate particles to the speed of light, or create energy out of "thin air." These things also tend to be much harder to understand, and the tiny milestones made regularly tend not to impress people who don't get why they're such big deals. History is happening all around us, but it's our present so most of us are too caught up in... living our lives.... to view it with detachment, and we can't see the future so don't know what moments now will be huge milestones later, although some we can guess likely will be.
Lmao. Ah. In that case I still think people surf more sites than they delete, and would rate being able to connect to a site as being more important than being able to delete it from browser history. Either way though, in that context it is rather humorous, accurate or not.
What you’ve written is great, though. A lot of people talk about the good old days, say that people used to be different, and say things about kids these days. They view the past as something totally separate, and don’t realise the present will be part of history in an instant. They forget that history is happening as they live and wait. In hindsight, things seem simple. ‘Don’t invade Russia in the winter, you fools!’ ‘Don’t try to assassinate the archduke!’ ‘You were too cocky, that’s why he was elected!’. People say they’d have done different, that they would have thrived in an older, and in their op
inion better time. But people haven’t changed. Our society may have, but it doesn’t stop bad things happening. They act shocked. “How could this happen in 2017?”. The past is isolated from the present in their minds. And sometimes I find myself thinking like that, too.
Very true. People's basic nature changes very little over huge spans of time. We have more cultural development to draw on, and the benefit of more available knowledge from the past, but if we don't take advantage of that we are no more evolved in a meaningful sense than our recent ancestors. Technology evolves faster than humanity, we quickly out reach our ability to rely on ethics and responsibility to guide our tools. But this too is not new, almost every leap forward has been met with cries of the end of times or decency. We just have to recognize that the world we know is not the world the future will know, that good or bad times are what they are in a moment, and looking back in historical context may change how we see that moment in the future. We get lost in detail, but history and society only remember the broad arch of things. If we strive to accept and care for each other as best we are able, we have done what we could and what happens after is up to those of the future.
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