• mineralfellow@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    And even with that, you are glossing over the Spanish Flu. The “peaceful” time since the '50s included numerous massive wars, not least of which was the Vietnam war.

    The idea that every time period has its own chaos is the whole point of the song We Didn’t Start the Fire, written in 1989.

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      6 hours ago

      Everyone glosses over the Spanish Flu ;)

      At least the wars since the 50s have not been on European or US soil. Well, except of the wars that were actually on European soil.

      But yeah, it’s totally true that constant chaos is constant.