Something that really fucks me up is the realization that stuff I’ve thought of as ancient history (like WWII) was not that long ago.
To me, “the 80′s” were just “a decade before I was born”
But now, as we near 2020, “the 80′s” becomes “forty years ago.”
WWII ended for us in 1945.
So, for people who were living in the 80′s, WWII was “forty years ago.”
Not even.
The difference between 1945 and 1980 is thirty five years.
It’s all so much closer than we fully realize. We’re not so different from who we were then.
So, forty years from now, what will ‘this day and age’ look like? How will ‘forty years ago’ be remembered? And how will our vision of ‘the future’ change with it?
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