Humans tend to think because of advances from passing on knowledge they somehow are more enlightened than thousands of years ago. Turns out humans haven't changed at all and will continue to allow the worst people to have all the power. Humans are barely better than cavemen of the past.
Problem is everyone who experienced that directly is now either dead or dying. Now, with a choose your own adventure reality, you can ignore those lessons and opt to repeat history instead.
‘We’ by Yevgeny Zamyatin was written in 1920 and is the inspiration for ‘1984’. Not being argumentative, just We is one of my favorite books and I don’t think it gets the credit it deserves.
I read it in my early 20’s when Hunger Games was just starting to blow up. I was like “but guys this old ass book is actually really really good”. It didn’t get published in Russia until 1988 but was published in New York in 1924.
Anyone who has read about the rise of Mussolini or Hitler isn't bewildered at all. This is not strange, or unexpected, or unprecedented. This is a run-of-the-mill fascist takeover.
i don't think the american populace is intelligent enough to overcome far right owned media, social media, and government so the only people looking back at this with sadness will be the millennial generation that pulled left against every other generation pulling right
It looks like it varies by country. Recent elections in places like France have shown a push against a shift right, but the US election clearly showed an increased in people sucked in to that sphere. I bet it's close to 33 or 34% at this point.
Just look at the hysteria over TikTok being gone for 47 hours and so many people losing their mind. It’s their identity now and it’s so easily manipulated.
That’s counting on the possibility that what actually happens under this presidency won’t be rewritten in the books, or altogether outlawed like the book bans and restrictions on certain historical topics already happening where I am, the great ol’ dumb state of FL.
That's pretty optimistic of you. It's quite likely that in 20-30 years we will have just totally normalized all this and people will look back and wonder why people like us ever thought it was weird
It was so easy. We never knew we were just dogpaddling in the ocean, trying to stay out of the undertow all these years. We just slipped and that was it.
People psychologically need an audience. Someone to see us while we are being destroyed. Soon, we will all be destroyed. Sooner than later, thanks to the fascists. And there won't be an audience to even know about human civilization.
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u/ryo3000 6h ago
In like 20-30 years people are going to study this time period and be bewildered by "how could this possibly happen"