What year does “history” start for you, before which you feel like a pure spectator/documentary watcher/book reader? I think 1982 for me. Events after 1982 have a live salience and are open to rewrites in long-term personal memory for me
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Replying to @vgr
I see different readings of the question in the responses. Sporadic episodes like the Atlanta Olympics 1996. wrt continuous personal attention, probably starts 9/11. On history 'in color': lol probably my lifetime only, USSR seems unreal to me and collapsed the year I was born.
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Heh the USSR was probably more real to me in the 80s than today’s China. It was an outsize live presence until it suddenly wasn’t. I’m genuinely sad about aspects of its demise.
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