Gee I wonder what was happening in 1939 that would make people think the world was going downhill?https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/1450226496153341953 …
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Obviously not, but the US didn’t enter the war for two more years, and the comparison to “horse and buggies” was already roughly 2 generations?
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I suspect the biggest the biggest issue is just recency bias, ‘39 must have seemed horrible at the moment, but radio and penicillin alone would have made the difference incomparable
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