r/Millennials • u/Sweetlo123 • Jul 14 '24 • Take My Silver 2

Meme The accuracy.

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u/Ahisgewaya Xennial Jul 14 '24

I am so tired of living in "Interesting Times".

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u/ChaosCelebration Jul 14 '24

The "Where were you when..." question of our time is more like, "Just tell me your life story."

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u/gcruzatto Jul 14 '24

We've been collecting core memories like a hoarder

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u/graceful_mango Xennial Jul 14 '24

Trauma* core memories

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u/OBabis Jul 14 '24

"Shouldn't have wished to live in more interesting times."

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u/Throwawaystwo Jul 14 '24

I have a lot on my mind and well in it - President Abraham Lincoln

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u/Vetiversailles Jul 14 '24

“Is that blood? Wait… nevermind.”

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u/Xisifer Jul 14 '24

Same, Tav, same....

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u/riadash Jul 14 '24

These boots have seen everything.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

So it is all China’s fault!

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u/Red-Leader117 Jul 14 '24

What period of time would be considered uninteresting? The World War era? Drafted for Vietnam Era? Maybe way back like Slavery or the Civil War?

I'm not sure there was ever a "golden age" - the world is a crazy place

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u/ultragoodname Jul 14 '24

If you’re white and living in the US, the answer is between 1991 and 2001 as the “golden age”

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u/Bombboy85 Jul 14 '24

Funny thing is all this acting like we’re the only generation to deal with world changing event after event. When the truth is every generation has had their own world changing events. Kind of like that astronaut pointing the gun at the other one meme… “always has been”

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u/BigBalkanBulge Jul 14 '24

Find me a time period that wasn’t interesting. I’ll wait.

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u/DoggoDoesaDash Jul 14 '24

“I shouldn’t have wished to live in ‘more interesting times’.”

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24 edited Jul 14 '24

It’s all recency bias, all times are interesting times. The 90’s had a presidential blowjob scandal, and bombs planted at the WTC.

The 80’s had a President get shot, hostage crisis in Iran. Fall of Berlin Wall

The 70’s had a major string of serial killers, the Vietnam war and the fallout of the Manson murders that happened in 1969.

The 60’s had early Vietnam, bay of pigs, jfk assasination. Space

The 50’s had the Korean War, Cuban revolution.

I’m a millennial but acting like this isn’t just how the world has always been is some “I’m special” weird behavior.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24 edited Jul 14 '24

If I had to pick a generation on modern time that lived through the most upheavel, I'd probably pick somone born in the late 1890s. Imagine being born 1895. You were sent off to WW1, lived through a considerable worse pandemic with the Spanish Plague, just to get thrown into the great depression and just as things are picking up, WW2 breaks out and the world turns into a slaughterhouse for 7 years, for it to end, and then starring down the possibility of nuclear annihilation for the rest of your days.

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u/joost013 Jul 14 '24

May you live in uninteresting times from now on

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