Hestia

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October 15, 2022

Seems like we really are living in two different realities --

(People born after WWII and before 1985) were forced to wrestle with an experience that reconstituted reality without changing anything about the physical world. These interlocked generations — Boomers and Xers — will be the only people who experienced this shift as it happened, with total recall of both the previous world and the world that came next. “If we’re the last people in history to know life before the Internet,” wrote Michael Harris in his book The End of Absence, “we are also the only ones who will ever speak, as it were, both languages. We are the only fluent translators of Before and After.”

1990s: A Book

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(I just started the book, but a lot of premise's that the author writes about seem spot on. Just have to remember it all...)

I think the above quote explains why millennials & gen z'ers can't understand that there is no magic wand that gets a law on the books immediately or hey! just stop being racist or not every white person has white guilt and refuses to get up on the stage and rip out their heart and spill blood all over the stage.

I know instantaneous acts like that work in the virtual world, but this is the 'real world' where time is needed to come to a consensus from all parties, whether we like the outcome or not.

Explains a lot as to why and how we became "divided," which the "media" is exploiting to the nth degree and ageism has become okay because we appear to be old fogey's who "know" how the world works in real time.

As always, YMMV...

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About Hestia

Goddess-centric Pagan, student of Hermetics, Socialist Democrat before it became cool.