I’m sixty and haven’t had this yet. But, then, I don’t talk to anyone, either, so…
Hell yeah brother
Does it count if it was 2020 and the person is also your age? I feel like a LOT of people have a weirdly revisionist memory of the first few months of the pandemic.
It’s not the first few months of the pandemic anymore?
What year is it?
If you live your life based on a narrative and not undeniable facts you constantly have to revise history
History is always being revised. This isn’t a bad thing, but rather inherent to the process of history. History isn’t about assembling facts together; it’s about the continual process of interpretation and reinterpretation. That means there’s no such thing as settled history, because there’s always more insight we can gain by looking backwards, even if we haven’t unearthed new evidence from a particular period.
Even if you had some undeniable facts about your life, those start to get wibbly wobbly the instant you try to communicate them to someone, because words are imprecise.
On the other hand, my dad’s final response to criticism of Apartheid was “you weren’t there”.
No, but the whole rest of the world at the time* didn’t like it either!
*except Israel, as it so happens
Haven’t had that yet, but having travelled a lot I find it jarring how many other countries seem to think that Thatcher was a great leader to look up to, and not a dreadful callous nightmare who sold the country out on multiple levels to create the illusion of prosperity.
I just want to say that I appreciate that this was de-zittered to be posted here.
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