• The Snark Urge
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    113 months ago

    Well I’ve never met an upbeat historian, to put it another way. Still, there are glimmers of light and civility in this open air abbatoir it pleases us to call life.

      • IninewCrow
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        33 months ago

        lol … my sentiments exactly and its a message I have to keep reminding myself about. Things are looking terrible right now … but they are less terrible then they were before.

        The only caveat to that is that in the past, we were incrementally getting less and less terrible to one another and it wasn’t really world changing. We are the point now where a small group of people can just decide to end it all for us and start nuclear war to end humanity in one angry blow. We used to be able to kill each other one by one but now we’re so sophisticated that we can kill everyone in one shot.

      • The Snark Urge
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        23 months ago

        I am obliged to ask if you are a historian, or like me merely a Carlinesque fan of history