You mean just like how we learned about the 1920 pandemic?
Oh right, no we didn’t. It was a footnote at best.
Our current lives really aren’t all that special you know.
Uh, what? I absolutely was taught about the 1920s pandemic. Not so much about the disease itself or how the pandemic was handled, admittedly, but certainly about how it affected society and the politics of the time. It wasn’t a whole unit by itself, but it was definitely more than a footnote.
I guess I was taught it. There was a paragraph in our history text about it. The teacher said a sentence or two on it.
I think this time period in humanity is very special. It really does feel like the make or break of humanity sometimes.
That’s because you’re alive right now. Obviously the events you experience yourself seem weightier than the events you’ve only read about.
Not in the same way.
You could maybe argue atom bombs and cold war was a similar time for such crucial moments in humanity, but now we also got climate change, another rise in fascism, and we got tons of nukes on top. And plenty of other things which I won’t bother to delve into because I should sleep.
It all went to shit after Harambe died
This actually caused a parallel universe split and sadly we got the dark timeline.
The 2020s were very important (and very rough) in Star Trek lore, too. Slightly different, but the similarities are striking…
Bell Riots when?
I learned about it.
I did too, but i’m over 40 so I can’t say much for current educational systems.
“it was a golden age, companies had record profits…”
History is written by the victors
Poor Victors. You’re just living your life, having a name you thought was normal when all of a sudden Bam! You’re put in the history mines. Forced to pump out tomes until your fingers break from the strain.
History is written by the victors subordinates.
FTFY
Hmm… children, in the 2050s, in schools, ah to dream.
These last 5 years have just a utter shit show so many people who shouldn’t have been allowed near power getting it
“Well, back in my day, ikeas were endless mazes with no exit and no one could agree on whether to like everyone or hate evryone”
I’m from Germany. All the history we get taught is the French revolution (for some unspoken reason), three times, and Nazi Germany. I don’t think that will change.
*2015
*2025
First, we’re not even sure humanity will last until 2050
Second, children will be able to study everything with slides containing memes about our time
