History

[cnamon]

Which moment in modern history changed the way you think?

[Alice]

I don't think there is one.  Anything that's changed the way I think is something that's happened in my personal life.

[Dry then Catch]

would this question be restricted to the last 25-26 years then?  How can it be anything but 9-11? 

[OBB]

I would say it was the day I realized that I could produce B.O. if I didn't shower.

That changed everything.

[ignom]

The movie Spaceballs.

[Dry then Catch]

I would say it was the day I realized that I could produce B.O. if I didn't shower.

That changed everything.

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[VikingJuice]

Which moment in modern history changed the way you think?

1)Emotional melt down in college that led a change of major and total change in career path

2)Grandmother passing in '95

3)Loss of a very important relationship in '02 and learning to thrive and survive in spite of it

[ignom]

That's from A Very Long Engagement.

[ReBurn]

The day I got married.  I haven't had to think since.

(just kidding.  I think all the time.)

[dazie]

12/21/98

[dc]

The way *I* think?  April 1, 1995.

[dazie]

The way *I* think?  April 1, 1995.

[Gamplayerx]

What happened 12/21/98 and 04/01/95?

[dc]

What happened 12/21/98 and 04/01/95?

Well, my day is the day I quit drinking for good....  I have no idea what the smiley means.

[Gamplayerx]

It appears to be the "rock on with your bad self" smiley.

To which sentiment I'll add my own. Rock on with your bad self, dc.

[dazie]

It appears to be the "rock on with your bad self" smiley.

To which sentiment I'll add miy own. Rock on with your bad self, dc.

exactly.

[nishi]

is this world history or our own personal history?

i would say that a lot of modern history has changed the way i think - and 9/11 changed the way i think in ways that are very different than the ways it changed the way other people think, i'm fairly sure. to me, 9/11 was not only a national tragedy - it was the public death of real journalism.

and catch - a couple of us are old enough to remember watergate. while not 9/11.... watching a president resign in infamy - and not over something like a blowjob -  is not a pretty thing. that was the end of trust in government, however illusory that trust might have been. i was a young kid and even i knew how fucked up that was.

people walking on the moon. for that, i was very little, but it was still an amazing thing. i still burst into tears when i see that footage. from that i learned about the fragility of man and the strength of purpose.

seeing footage of the sex pistols for the first time. watching our world reinvent itself.

students in tiannemen square - some governments will kill you and not care who's watching.

the reign of terror in pine ridge - *ou*r government will kill you, and not care who's watching.

fall of the berlin wall - not unlike men walking on the moon.

nuclear bomb drills under our desks in school - the world is not safe.

the rise and fall of the ecology movement, the word feminist becoming a filthier word than cunt in our society, the US response to AIDs resulting in eviscerating the progress made in gay rights after stonewall - people resent and fear change and will people for trying to bring change.

the death of john lennon - we are all vulnerable. often more vulnerable than we know.

the death of curt cobain - we are all vulnerable. often more vulnerable than anyone else knows.

piss christ, the photographs of robert mapplethorpe, flag burning amendments and the last temptation of christ - people need to get over themselves and their icons.

there are lots of things that have changed me. maybe shaped me is more correct. but i also think that it wasn't until i got older that i realized how much they had shaped me.

i would say that the biggest way modern world history has changed me is that it has forced me, over and over again, to look at a complicated and often ugly world and not become either bitter or hopeless. i personally find bitter and hopeless on par with sugary sweet and willfully naive. i think they're limiting and you miss out on too much.

[Gamplayerx]

Awesome post, nishi.

[ignom]

Geeze, Kurt Cobain is spelled with a K. I guess in a way though, he was brief and to the point.

[Gamplayerx]

Geeze, Kurt Cobain is spelled with a K. I guess in a way though, he was brief and to the point.

I wish he was brief and to the point. 

[Dry then Catch]

and catch - a couple of us are old enough to remember watergate. while not 9/11.... watching a president resign in infamy - and not over something like a blowjob -  is not a pretty thing. that was the end of trust in government, however illusory that trust might have been. i was a young kid and even i knew how fucked up that was.


i would say that the biggest way modern world history has changed me is that it has forced me, over and over again, to look at a complicated and often ugly world and not become either bitter or hopeless. i personally find bitter and hopeless on par with sugary sweet and willfully naive. i think they're limiting and you miss out on too much.

as i stated earlier I can only speak for what I've seen.  All that other stuff Watergate, the moon landing was already assumed and digested.   I think I would have shat myself if I saw someone land on the moon on TV.
This poses and interesting situation of experience..I posit that people born 77 and above are incredibly desensitized to information and news.  Yes events are digested on a cognizant level and processsed, but it doesn't hit us as much asit would people in the past.  Our lives have become that insualr and information overloaded, that it affects our total worldview. 

[Jessie]

and catch - a couple of us are old enough to remember watergate. while not 9/11.... watching a president resign in infamy - and not over something like a blowjob -  is not a pretty thing. that was the end of trust in government, however illusory that trust might have been. i was a young kid and even i knew how fucked up that was.


i would say that the biggest way modern world history has changed me is that it has forced me, over and over again, to look at a complicated and often ugly world and not become either bitter or hopeless. i personally find bitter and hopeless on par with sugary sweet and willfully naive. i think they're limiting and you miss out on too much.

as i stated earlier I can only speak for what I've seen.  All that other stuff Watergate, the moon landing was already assumed and digested.   I think I would have shat myself if I saw someone land on the moon on TV.
This poses and interesting situation of experience..I posit that people born 77 and above are incredibly desensitized to information and news.  Yes events are digested on a cognizant level and processsed, but it doesn't hit us as much asit would people in the past.  Our lives have become that insualr and information overloaded, that it affects our total worldview. 

I think that's true, but I agree with nishi that it's gotten incredibly worse since 9/11.

Timothy's generation has never known a world without 24 hour news and the internet, though.  Isn't that odd?

[meredith]

What happened 12/21/98 and 04/01/95?

Well, my day is the day I quit drinking for good....  I have no idea what the smiley means.

Thanks for doing that for me on my birthday, sweetie.

[dazie]

What happened 12/21/98 and 04/01/95?

Well, my day is the day I quit drinking for good....  I have no idea what the smiley means.

Thanks for doing that for me on my birthday, sweetie.

You're an April Fool?

[meredith]

What happened 12/21/98 and 04/01/95?

Well, my day is the day I quit drinking for good....  I have no idea what the smiley means.

Thanks for doing that for me on my birthday, sweetie.

You're an April Fool?

Didn't you get the memo?

1984-04-01