@_knucklebone I feel like you missed the point they were trying to convey
@_knucklebone When you see how movies treat time, you understand why so many people fail to grasp it. Except geologists; geologists understand time, though they sometimes struggle with the present.
@_knucklebone @caitlinmoran My grandmother was born in 1927 and lived through the blitz and was evacuated from London during WW2. For her that’s not history. It’s just her life.
@_knucklebone @Jane_Doe82 In defense, Her Majesty (b. 1926) is ancient. My mother, who passed at 47, was born in 1921. She would be ancient today also. History is yesterday as was 1964 and 1945 or 1929 when Ann Frank was born, or 1492.
@_knucklebone Great point. If you’re 45, 1932 is as close to your year of birth as now.
@_knucklebone textbooks purposefully put their images in black and white so we think it happened so long ago when reality is it’s still relevant issues today
@_knucklebone @fabiodondada I say this all the time! as a frame of reference my mom is 63, still in the workforce, her birth certificate lists her race as Negro and my dad’s says Colored imagine presenting your birth certificate to someone for work/travel etc in this day & age and that’s what it says
@_knucklebone Realizing the Rhandian Genocide occurred in my lifetime was a trip. Barely 30 years ago.