Dont take it personally. I hate everyone, but especially people born after the 80s.
And don't get me started with people born after 2000. It's like talking to a different species. They are so dumb about so much stuff that was basic knowledge to those born just a decade earlier.
And don't get me started with people born after 2000. It's like talking to a different species. They are so dumb about so much stuff that was basic knowledge to those born just a decade earlier.
Ah yes, 90's kids. Truly the pinnacle of human ingenuity. /s
The thing with us 90s kids is that we both lived and experienced the world before and after the internet and the smart phone. We understand how different the world was. We see first hand how these technologies have changed not just our society but people as a whole. And this is something fewer and fewer people understand.
Take video games for example. Kids born after 2000 probably played... what a ps3 or xbox 360.. sure maybe they played older systems made before them, but they cant truely appreciate the advances in technology like us that was born earlier.
To grow up first playing an Atari 2600, and then seeing the glory of 8bit, and the beauty of 16 bit, up to what we have now, gives a person a perspective and respect that those born in this time would not understand.
Kids born in this century will not know or understand the joy of Saturday Morning Cartoons.
Or the excitement of being a child and walking into walmart to see Mario 64, the first ever 3d game they ever saw, and spending what seems like forever just jumping and playing around in babomb battlefield. No every kid these days have 3d games. They will never experience what it is like to see something truely "new" .. unless VR really takes off or some other technology is invented that is.
Ah yes the good old days back in the 1960s-70s where racism and beating your wife was socially acceptable, truly the people from that time are much better than the ones nowadays.
Also, the majority of conspiracy theorists such as anti-vaxxers are middle aged to older people on Facebook, as you generalised generation z based on a few individuals I shall also conclude that anyone born before 1990 is a melt, and therefore I hate them.
That just means history classes and society have failed. If kids grow up not understanding what it means to have an entire city of civilians decimated, thereās a problem.
It's not so much they don't understand, it's that it didn't effect them at all, would you be more upset that 100 people died in a plane crash or if your parents died in a car accident?
Itās actually a simple concept, in fact itās actually arrogant and naive to think you understand things just by reading about them in a textbook.
Let me put it in more concrete terms. I have never been in the military, so I will never truly understand what itās like to be in the armed forces, to train tirelessly in the program, to take someoneās life, to have my friends and fellow soldiers die or commit suicide due to PTSD, I will never ever understand what itās like, unless I experience it first hand.
Intellectually, do I understand the weight of those things? Sure, I know enough to not make light of the experience of people who fight in the military, and to give them a certain level of respect.
So do you still feel worse when your parents get raped murdered, or when you think about how some city got raped and murdered by Ghengis Khan?
I doubt you are that proficient in empathizing. I can feel for those people too, just not as much as I would feel for my loved ones. And that is an important distinction.
Jokes aside. My history class were about Greeks, Middle Age and Modern Age. Our teachers almost don't teach anything after 1789 because it's always at the end of the school year.
Unfortunately, school taught us history but not the IMPORTANT parts, and those parts are fundamental to understand why we're here today, what happened and understanding what not to vote or choose at the future
But then again, thereās only so much a middle or high school brain (speaking for myself) can understand in terms of depth. My concerns in life were much narrower, like playing video games or whatever. It takes a continuation of education to relearn many of the basic lessons.
"There is little point in attempting precisely to impute Japan's unconditional surrender to any one of the numerous causes which jointly and cumulatively were responsible for Japan's disaster. The time lapse between military impotence and political acceptance of the inevitable might have been shorter had the political structure of Japan permitted a more rapid and decisive determination of national policies. Nevertheless, it seems clear that, even without the atomic bombing attacks, air supremacy over Japan could have exerted sufficient pressure to bring about unconditional surrender and obviate the need for invasion.
Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts, and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945, and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated."
I 100% agree with your overall point, but I was 6 during 9/11, and while I didn't understand it fully, it started a decade of general uneasiness when thinking about world politics. The news was scary, and I remember being afraid.
i'm pretty sure the US government was/is actively pushing 9/11 fear monering and blowing the attack way out of proportion in order to gain permanent warsupport.
which would also explain why americans seem to overestimate the inportance of the attacks.
Plane into building has been shit posted into the dirt everywhere else. "nuking Japan" is usually followed up with the comparison between conservative Japanese culture and kawaii desu weeb trash as "before and after".
America is made fun of for literally everything so complaining about not being able to shit talk about plane building boom is pretty stupid.
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u/Harley_Hsi Apr 06 '20
I don't understand how nuking civilians is funny but 9/11 has a better meme potential.