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>>david9+(OP)
History books can tell you facts that happened, but they can never truly tell you how it feels.

I feel we're riding a knife's edge and there's a hurricane brewing in the gulf of absurdity.

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Incidentally, I feel like this is why it is so hard to actually learn from history. You can read about the 1918 'Spanish' Flu, but you think "we're smarter now". etc.

>>csours+kk
I really don't like how interesting these times are.

>>ngcazz+7w
What times were not interesting?

>>Jensso+pX
In the US, from about 1975 to 2015 were less "interesting" (in the sense of "may you live in interesting times") than current times.

>>holler+B71
1975-1988 we lived in the Cold War and the potential of nuclear strikes. The African, gay and trans communities (in particular but not exclusively) dealt with the AIDS epidemic. Iran moved to theocracy. In the 90s, we had the Iraq war that was not bad for the US but massively destabilized the region. In the 2000s we had 9/11 and let's not understate the fear from the Muslim community here. Africa has lived through famine and the pains of decolonization after their wealth was stripped and stolen over centuries.

This is worse, but we have always lived in "interesting times" depending on where you were in the globe.

>>ebiest+Wx2
I'd say that nothing since the collapse of the USSR has been as existentially threatening as the Cold War.