Our Lives and Our History

 Our lives and our history are much more like the lives of my great grandparents in the 1920's and my grandparents in the late sixties than they are to the 1980's, 1990's, and 2000's. Studying those times may be more profitable right now and for the next ten or twenty years.

This tweet is spot on!

The year that keeps on giving.

Here's the original quote for citation purposes.

Awesome! I always wondered what it was like to live during the times of the Civil War, Spanish Flu, Great Depression, Civil Rights Movement, Watergate, and the Dust Bowl. Not all at once, mind you, but ya know, "beggars/choosers" and all.

— Juh-G (@Cred_Just_ible) June 23, 2020

Or this one:

Imagine the great depression, the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and the tumultuous 1960s but like all at the same time.

— Secular Talk (@KyleKulinski) May 31, 2020