Thank you all for your stories and memories. It’s truly amazing how massive events can be easily forgotten. 
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Chernobyl, Aids (and all the homophobia that went with it), fall of the Berlin Wall, Margaret Thatcher, IRA bombings - yep, although we were less educated about it as we only had MSM, no social media giving us a platform us to try and make a difference
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And the fear of nuclear war.
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The Sixties. Cuba missile affair, Vietnam, Arab-Israeli 6 days war, Civil rights campaign in the USA and Black Power. Assassinations of the 2 Kennedy's & MLK. Czechoslovakia. Summer of Love & Woodstock. Those are just off the top of my head. History just keeps repeating itself.
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I need affirmation that the events and unrest of the 60s was worse than what we’re going through now. Yes?
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1968, probably the most tumultuous year I have ever experienced. I was 15. Assassinations of MLK and Bobby Kennedy, the upheaval of the Dem convention is Chicago, riots throughout the US, the horrific Vietnam war, LBJ refusing to run...it was wild.
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I used to do a "1968 project" w/my classes. Students researched events (there's so many I could usually assign 1 per student) & presented them to each other. We'd discuss what it must've been like to experience, then watch/discuss Night of the Living Dead in that context (1/2)
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No. It was relatively safe. And jobs, housing easy to come by. Thanks to leftwing governments since 1945.
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We had the Cold War, the Troubles in Northern Ireland (which I grew up in Belfast with) AIDs, mass unemployment (20% when I left school), the Winter of Discontent, strikes with continual power cuts, rubbish piling in the streets & unburied bodies. Yes, it was a dream .....
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Fascism in Spain. Yugoslavia. Cold war. Falklands War. AIDS. Challenger. Bosnia. Rwanda. Fall of Iron Curtain. Diana. Iraq #1 and #2. Afghanistan. But there were no 24-hour rolling news channels or social media sites then.
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Lack of tech is the real key difference here. We've always been doing awful things to each other, and the planet. It's only now that it's beamed directly into the consciousness of every poor sod privileged enough to own a smartphone that it seems new.
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