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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 168 points 1 year ago
[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 109 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We got great things coming in the 30s...

[–] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] pyre@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] T156@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Star Trek certainly seems to think so.

[–] And009@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

A glorious era that lasts 4 years

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not just good, it's great depression. -Just a Thought - Gnarls Barkley

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remember when they called it the great war as if it'll be the only one? Good times.

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 101 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Having just come out of a Global pandemic

[–] The_v@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

Ending the decade with a global depression.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 93 points 1 year ago (3 children)

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I've always like this metaphor. Alexander Woolcott called striking coincidences "the universe caught in the veriest act of rhyming."

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

It's like poetry

[–] mtpender@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again."

[–] Mannimarco@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By your comm... I mean so say we all.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Those who know history are doomed to repeat it with those who don't.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only thing we learn from history ... is that we don't learn anything from history

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Robert Evans?

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Those who don't learn history well are doomed

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

First season of True Detective.

One of the best shows ever, very dark and brutal at points.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I disagree.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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:

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] clb92@feddit.dk 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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:

[–] elrik@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

All circles are flat.

[–] Entropywins@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes. I think that was from Mark Twain.

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

In fact, it seems like nothing has changed!

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not true, we also have climate change now

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] smb@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 year ago
[–] Hackworth@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's always a lighthouse. There's always a man. There's always a city.

[–] skeptomatic@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

"If we could perceive time as it truly was, what reason would grammar professors have to get out of bed?"

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

Lemmy comments like to rhyme.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] rocky1138@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

You don't even know what it means to be a trapper!

[–] uis@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So sad we didn't get assault of Gelendzhik Palace in 2017. Now Putin destroys not only Russia.

[–] SparrowHawk@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Patriarchy yet lives, and so time remains still