[drinking intensifies]
It’s always astonishing to me how we have record lows of alcohol usage while everything burns around us.
We’re so fucked
It’s honestly agonizing.
Some of it is just natural aging and realizing fellow adults don’t grow up intellectually with you. Like how can a 35yr old not know that Alaska isn’t an island?
But then some of it is societal regression via memes and lack of pursuing further education.
So the 2 things together have me pretty pissed
I never thought I would see anyone else say it, finally!
Problem with learning history is that if you have the bare minimum of morals and concept of fairness, USA ends up looking like the root cause for many current global problems. Look a bit further back, and UK and parts of Europe gets iffy.
I mean, let’s not give China a free pass here.
Time is a mother fucker of a flat circle and it only has around 100 years on it.
You can tell it’s about to start repeating itself when kids start getting called the names of your great-grandparents.
looks at climate graph
I WISH TIME WAS A 100 YEAR CIRCLE.
Or science. Or technology. Knowing things is so fucking depressing because you’ll have your family members saying/believing the most damning things and there’s literally nothing you can do to teach them.
Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it. Those who know are doomed to know that it’s repeating.
Somehow, I like their phrasing a little better. Feels more like what I experience reading the news.
I wish it was just ignorance.
Joan is a real treasure of common sense, We luv Joan from mastadon🥰
😑 — Yang Wen-Li
Were already trying to one up Hitler.
