On the other hand, my dad’s final response to criticism of Apartheid was “you weren’t there”.
No, but the whole rest of the world at the time* didn’t like it either!
*except Israel, as it so happens
well retrospective analysis might actually be more worthwhile than a random experience. Witnesses of historical events tend to be a blessing and a curse in history, because they all come biased.
all history is biased. The thing that history really doesn’t address is at that very moment what was the attitude of the regular Joe.
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The point is you can remember it because you were there for the news cycle. Imagine a kid telling you all about what covid lockdowns were like in 20 years. That’s what they mean.
Does it count if it was 2020 and the person is also your age? I feel like a LOT of people have a weirdly revisionist memory of the first few months of the pandemic.
If you live your life based on a narrative and not undeniable facts you constantly have to revise history
You mean there weren’t roaming soldiers shooting people in the street and welding masks to the corpses?
Haven’t had that yet, but having travelled a lot I find it jarring how many other countries seem to think that Thatcher was a great leader to look up to, and not a dreadful callous nightmare who sold the country out on multiple levels to create the illusion of prosperity.
Had this happen the other day trying to describe why we believed blatant lies about video games like the rumors about being able to see Samus completely nude in Metroid.
Like, kid… I was there. I know what I am talking about. You didn’t have wikis or youtube or Reddit to go and ask “hey, how do I see naked Samus?” You just heard your cousin say “you can see samus naked at the end of Metroid if you beat it fast enough” and so you keep speedrunning the game never seeing her naked thinking you just need to go faster.
There was the Justin Bailey cheat code, though.
FUCK00 J (ALL THE WAY)
Never saw this one. What’s it do?
… And then having to admit they where right because your mind gets flaky
The biggest one for me is when I see people glazing Bush, like either you’re a teenager or you weren’t paying attention.
Sometimes it’s good to hear another perspective, though.
I’m sixty and haven’t had this yet. But, then, I don’t talk to anyone, either, so…
Hell yeah brother
How you don’t even need to be old. You can just do that with current events with videos from multiple angles!
This hasn’t happened to me yet. I might not be old enough though I feel ancient.
