I would say I am heartbroken right now My personal life is going exceptionally well. But the state and trajectory of the world are terrifically Bad I think this calls for some examination
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Maybe everyone here had a childhood like that growing up. Long summers playing Civ 2 and SimCity and MoO2--just building worlds in your mind with an assist from the CRT
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9/11 was a shock. It came right after my 20C European history class, and after a 20C history unit in English. (St Paul has a large Hmong population, and my teacher was half Japanese; coverage of Internment and Vietnam was brutal.) So, I was prepared to freak out. And I did.
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It felt--suffocating. Everyone around me lost their minds in tandem. A friend who is currently a center leftist in good standing wrote a poem about how he was going to be sad when people rolled up their American flags after forgetting what the moment felt like
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Got my first taste of left politics in 2003 when Michael Moore came to speak at my college. I am glad to say that while I showed up eager to hear anyone speak against the war, i left horrified halfway through. I'd never seen a talented demagogue before.
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Blogs started cropping up around this time and they were intoxicating Most people were still eager to fight, but some weren't, and seeing Contemporary Discourse (generally very good) without a filter was a revelation
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The spell of the War was good and finally broken around Katrina, when I think the country collectively realized Bush was broken. It was a bit of a relief, but even then--I don't know. I don't think things seemed anywhere near as bad during the GWoT as they do now.
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2000 was ok. But Prodigy replacing Michael Jackson in night clubs bothered me even then. That's when I realized I'm 80s guy even though I never truly experienced that decade.
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I was just old enough to know that Y2k had ominous significance but not old enough to care why. The cool thing about it now in retrospect was how experts saw it coming, figured out how to fix it, and succeeded almost perfectly. All the side hysteria did whip the laypeople up tho.
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