TehBamski@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agoIf someone from the 1950s suddenly appeared, what would be the most difficult thing to explain about life today?message-squaremessage-square273fedilinkarrow-up1314arrow-down112
arrow-up1302arrow-down1message-squareIf someone from the 1950s suddenly appeared, what would be the most difficult thing to explain about life today?TehBamski@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square273fedilink
minus-squareEinar@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down2·1 year agoHow after World War 2 we didn’t truly learn and still fight wars over racism, nationalism and other reasons that keep us from uniting. How we managed to ruin the earth to a severe degree in just 50 years or so. And video games. And The Flintstones.
minus-squareWhiteHawk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year ago How after World War 2 we didn’t truly learn and still fight wars over racism, nationalism and other reasons that keep us from uniting. I mean, we’ve been doing that for thousands of years. I feel like it would be more unexpected if we stopped.
minus-squareEinar@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoTrue. Just feels that after the deadliest conflict in history we would have learned so as not to repeat that insanity. But we didn’t.
minus-squareInfernal_pizza@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoTo be fair you’d have thought that after WW1 as well and then we literally just did it again
minus-squarethegreatgarbo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoAnd families don’t sit around the radio or TV to consume their entertainment, we all sit around the dinner table staring at our phones not talking to each other
How after World War 2 we didn’t truly learn and still fight wars over racism, nationalism and other reasons that keep us from uniting.
How we managed to ruin the earth to a severe degree in just 50 years or so.
And video games.
And The Flintstones.
I mean, we’ve been doing that for thousands of years. I feel like it would be more unexpected if we stopped.
True.
Just feels that after the deadliest conflict in history we would have learned so as not to repeat that insanity. But we didn’t.
To be fair you’d have thought that after WW1 as well and then we literally just did it again
Jup.
Insufferable.
And families don’t sit around the radio or TV to consume their entertainment, we all sit around the dinner table staring at our phones not talking to each other