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Originally Posted by alansmithee
I think that everyone who's ever lived has thought that they have been in a crossroads of history.
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Yep. The main thing you have to remember about history is this: there's nothing special about NOW except that it's happening.... right NOW.
The social and cultural forces we're dealing with now are no different from those dealt with fifty or five hundred or, for all we know, five thousand years ago.
I read a great article that was all about the "accellerating pace of modern life", and how young people are contorting themselves into unrecognizeability to keep up with the speed of things these days and old people feel left behind and don't understand new technology... And at the bottom, it was noted that the article had been written by Pliny the Elder, in 60 AD.
