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The average human’s lifetime spans ~6 distinct historical eras today, each 12-15y long. So it’s like living through a 6-part movie series. Historically the average was 1 because lifespans were shorter and history was much slower.
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Era boundaries tend to be a rough global consensus within a 2-3 year band so you’ll likely be born in the middle of one and die in the middle of one too. So 5 full eras and 2 bookend half-eras. Which means cold open part 1, leave before learning how part 7 ends.
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I think recent eras are: 1964-1979: long 60s 1980-1993: long 80s 1994-2007: long 90s 2008-2021: long Weirding 2022-2033: long 20s Enough time has passed that long 80s, long 90s feel like “history” to me now. Don’t remember long 60s since I was only 5 when it ended.
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to be fair I was 12 When it happens so maybe I don't see the connection. Is there not the end of history / liberal democracy triumphant meme through the '90s that falls apart with the beginning of terror and war on terror?
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That’s the thing… it doesn’t. It’s literally a straight line from earlier wtc bombing, 1993. It was not a black swan. The on-continent nature of the attack, and the tactical innovation (box cutters on airliners) was shocking to American citizens but the conflict itself was not
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