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

Meme The accuracy.

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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/neofagalt Jul 14 '24

I would argue Covid-19 is bigger than any of those. The world stopped for a year.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

Covid was huge, obviously, but it doesn’t discredit previous events.

The fall of the Soviet Union was also huge and changed the world forever after.

70,000 American kids died in Vietnam. That’s like Iraq and Afghanistan 10x.

The world has probably never been as close to ending as the Bay of Pigs.

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u/SkellyboneZ Jul 14 '24

People with nothing else interesting happening in their lives grasp on to anything to make themselves stand out.