• SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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      We know. WWII was a pretty ever-present event in culture back then. Lots of movies and TV shows about it, and of course all of our grandparents fought in WWII.

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        Yup. My kids are learning about it in school, and they regard it about how we regarded the civil war. Like dude, that was really fucked up, but it was a long time ago.

        Well it turns out it wasn’t that long ago, and now we’ve had an insurrection in your lifetime so, …probably some good lessons in there.

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        That one somehow isn’t as weird. I guess it’s because the 100 years since WW1 was fairly recently and obviously everyone who was over 50 at the time was born closer to WW1 than today.

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    We’ve passed the "Marty McFly came to this year date for existential dread and it was hilarious. Can’t wait for the year when we’re as far from the release of Austin Powers as the movie was from the wild 60s.

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        My guess this would be too depressing. Imahine going back to a world before 9/11, 2008, Trump, all that late-stage-capitalism and internet-fascists.

        Not telling you about the good old times, it’s just: It’s been fucked up, y’all.

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          You know, I would watch an Austin Powers 4 where he is thawed out in the present, is caught up with current affairs, and then can’t cope. He just spends the rest of the movie depressed. Maybe he even kills himself. It wouldn’t be funny but I would watch it.

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    If it makes you feel any better, I was born in 2004 and my brain does this shit too for some reason

    I think it’s because I want to round the current year to 2000

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    I can confirm, I am born in 1970 and I am 33 years old (even if I always say 29 to everybody, every year is my 29yo again)