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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I was discussing this with
@selentelechia a month ago maybe, and she noticed it. She's almost a decade younger and I think that makes a difference in this matter Some memories:3 replies 0 retweets 68 likesShow this thread -
Dialing onto Gopher in maybe first or second grade before www was live and looking for information about categories of stars (I didn't understand the papers that Veronica returned)
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parents talking about the USSR's dissolution on the way to Church and making fun of me for not knowing what a communist was A political cartoon of Bush I Seeing teevee programs about AIDS
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The first time I recall reading http://CNN.com was during the bombings in 98. I wanted to know what was going on. The politics came more quickly after that I had a subscription to Foreign Affairs by 2000 or so (asked for it for Christmas)
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2000 was wonderful. The millenium and all of that. It was easy to be hopeful. I had a hard time going to bed the night the digit flipped, after nothing bad actually happened with Y2k. I was so excited about what might happen next in the world
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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
@asymmetricinfo, @mattyglesias, others--all just babies then
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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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