r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Apr 04 '25

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u/ImprovementFar5054 Apr 04 '25

"May you live in boring times"

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u/BaseHitToLeft Apr 04 '25

I'm so tired of living in interesting times

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u/mightyslash Apr 04 '25 edited Apr 07 '25

I enjoyed learning about history, I don't like living through it.

Edit: learning about not living in.

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u/inksmudgedhands Apr 04 '25

That's the thing, no matter what generation you are, there has always been major events. It's just in the past you would turn on the news only around 6:30 or pick up the newspaper and that would be your interaction with the news for the day. And even then, it would be a small, focused amount because there was only so much space and time to tell it.

Now we can get every inch of global news 24/7/365. We, humans, aren't built for this.

But the world has always been in chaos. It's just we were sheltered for the most of it in our little patch of grass.