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The history books I read prepred me for how awful everything would be but not how mundane it would feel
Rarely does history dwell on the individual, especially when you cover hundreds of years in a class. I will say that I was taught about the leading factors of WW2 far more than WW1. A lot of it dwelt on a people suffering from the weight of reparations stacked upon the general weight of losing a war. I don’t say this to justify either timeframes decline to fascism, but to draw a parallel.
In my opinion and personal experience the general population of the US has so much less power (purchasing and otherwise) and they’re mad. They want to be mad at something tangible and fascist direct it toward minorities.
I take it as a perspective-adjusting tool. Big stuff makes it into those textbooks and the people who lived through it did all the little day-to-day things as well as they could on the side. They made it – some, anyway, but enough for us to be here today – and now it’s our turn to embrace the suck until we can hand that off to the next poor bastards.
We’re in an ever stranger situation than our predecessors, I think, for having all this information in our pockets instantly
Bingo. If humans were logical, having access to all this data would probably do more good than harm. Instead, people all flood into social media streams that show them they are correct to be racists, believe lies, or to care about nothing that truly matters.
Like, you have to figure out what to eat every day. WTH.
The kinds of things I was into always had a dude who was constantly hungry. That kinda makes it easy to relate to. No matter what crazy world ending shit was going on in the fiction, my dude still has to eat.
Someone definitively skipped the Trojan War alright.
Then maybe don’t?
Then maybe don’t
Continue with the minutae of daily life. What if that restlessness or terror is a message you should be paying attention to?
If your history books did not teach you about how fucked up this world is and how fucked up people are, then you read the wrong history books. Or, more likely, none at all.
The books, I read fully prepared me for this bullshit. None of this is a surprise, nor should it be.
You kinda missed the point of the post. Nothing they said implied that the history books didn’t contain monstrosities, just that the books didn’t prepare them for living life while monstrosities occur.
No, I didn’t misunderstand anything. You did, specifically my comment.
No your comment is clear. “I’m smart and well read but no one else is. They’re all idiots! But not me!!”
Well then you better do a better job of explaining yourself cuz I read it the same way that guy did. I think you completely missed the point of this post.
Holy shit what a huge amount of entitlement.
I don’t owe you anything, nor will I ever. If you cannot figure out the meaning of my incredibly simple and straightforward comment, that is 100% on you. I bear no responsibility here.
Pro tip: you’ll make it much farther through life if you own your own problems and overcome them rather than just blaming everyone else for every time you’re wrong
- I am not Floo
- I can read history, sympathize, and empathize.
- Every cataclysmic event we faced as a species, we have faced before, and wrote at length how sureal it felt for them, and terrible it was, and would never want it to reoccur again. Yet here, we are again, repeating history, because 55+% of the population are illiterately stupid.
- I’m doing everything in my power to plant trees I’ll never see, free deathcamps, and continue practicing anarchism with the few years I have left.
- We will get through this, dying, or living, but it will end. I can at the least control how I react to revisiting fascism again again.
Honestly the post should say ‘history classes’. Classes tend to cover a broad scope as do the textbooks they assign. I certainly have read larger picture nonfiction work, but I think it’s more common for books to cover more specific periods of time.
