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Originally Posted by GGG
Being at the tail end of Gen X I don’t think anything life altering has happened until now. I missed Cuban missile Crisis, too young to really remember the fall of the Berlin Wall or what that meant, aids was understood, no wars unless you volunteered. A pretty soft mushy life.
9/11 would be the only I remember where I was negative event. Maybe a little off topic but reading this thread at the time we are in right now really made me reflect for a second.
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I think it's because weapons have become so much more sophisticated that they are hard for many people to understand and many can think they don't even exist as a real problem. It's not as simple as a big explosion killing millions at once.
I remember when the Cambridge Analytica stuff was brought to light. This confirmation of weaponization of our data to manipulate and undermine democratic processes, I thought "this is a nuke. We need to take a step back and consider how we are using this thing we've created called the internet." And it's kind of just been brushed over.