• Chriszz@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Imagine actually living in that era, not knowing how things ended as we do today. Scary.

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      3 months ago

      The existential dread from the past is the same existential dread of today. We also do not know how things might turn out.

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        3 months ago

        It’s not the same. Similar but not the same. Things were definitely farther along back then. Much closer to tyrannical world domination.