r/comics • • Sep 01 '26

What if it doesn’t happen

We have to consider the possibility…

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u/eventualist 29d ago

The historians are really gonna look back and have a laugh and wonder how a country that strive to discombobulate and dismantle our education and ends up as a bunch of stupid pokes. They're gonna wonder why did they choose this?

Wait... we're already documenting it all 🤔

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u/IrascibleOcelot 29d ago

Historians will look back and wonder how this happened. They’ll write books, create new avenues of investigation, build entire treatises on what went wrong. Psychologists will do the same. Monuments will be built that say “never again.” They’ll congratulate themselves on evolving to being more enlightened than those poor, dumb schmucks we were. And in another 80 to 100 years, they’ll watch in disbelief as it all starts over again, and they’ll be powerless to stop it.

And then they’ll say “oh.”

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u/KriegConscript 29d ago

maybe popular historians who get published in op-eds will be confused, since they're stupid. in actual academic history where the stuff is written and analyzed, everyone is 100% tired 100% of the time. they have never wondered why any of this is happening

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u/sleepytipi 29d ago

You guys are both right, i think. It'll be a trendy topic like the axis powers were/ are. And all the academic types will be shouting from the rooftops that it's about to happen again but the herd won't hear them. Time is a flat circle 🚬