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We got great things coming in the 30s...
2039 is gonna be lit.
probably literally
Star Trek certainly seems to think so.
A glorious era that lasts 4 years
It's not just good, it's great depression. -Just a Thought - Gnarls Barkley
Remember when they called it the great war as if it'll be the only one? Good times.
Having just come out of a Global pandemic
Ending the decade with a global depression.
History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.
I've always like this metaphor. Alexander Woolcott called striking coincidences "the universe caught in the veriest act of rhyming."
It's like poetry
"All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again."
So say we all
SO SAY WE ALL!
By your comm... I mean so say we all.
History likes to ryhme.
Those who know history are doomed to repeat it with those who don't.
The only thing we learn from history ... is that we don't learn anything from history
Robert Evans?
Those who don't learn history well are doomed
Where is this from?
First season of True Detective.
One of the best shows ever, very dark and brutal at points.
I disagree.
I love the Twain quote but I’m also a fan of this contemporary parallel observation; the number one thing you learn by studying history is that humans never learn a goddamn thing from history
We truly are nothing but a bunch of barely evolved monkeys. We're even smart enough to know better, but too stupid to do anything about it. "Hey, that's a brick wall dead ahead." Humanity at large:
Time is a flat circle.
All circles are flat.
Obviously you've never heard of the Time Cube, invented by the "wisest man on Earth". ("My wisdom so antiquates known knowledge, that a psychiatrist examining my behavior, eccentric by his academic single corner knowledge, knows no course other than to judge me schizophrenic." - Gene Ray).
You can still find his (now gone) site on the Internet Archive.
His ramblings are unfortunately very racist and homophobic too.
One of his diagrams that explain everything:
History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes. I think that was from Mark Twain.
In fact, it seems like nothing has changed!
Not true, we also have climate change now
And nuclear weapons!
Can't wait for for the 2120s when we do all this again but the nukes have pure fusion igniters and probably some kind of pseudo intelligent AI guidance systems so their proliferation can't be prevented and they can evade anti ballistic missile systems.
nobody changed anything, so why should have anything changed? development does not appear by pure wish or magic, nor by letting time passing by, people have to do it, or it just doesn't get done.
There's always a lighthouse. There's always a man. There's always a city.
"If we could perceive time as it truly was, what reason would grammar professors have to get out of bed?"
Lemmy comments like to rhyme.
Ouch.
doomed. doomed i tellya
So sad we didn't get assault of Gelendzhik Palace in 2017. Now Putin destroys not only Russia.
Patriarchy yet lives, and so time remains still