I am not a history major, but I got a 5 on AP US History… and have degrees in Econ and Poli Sci.
Basically, the last 10 years for me has been everyone I know thinking I am literally insane.
And then roughly 90% of what I was saying would happen, has now happened, within +/- 2 years of when I said it probably would.
None of them have bothered to apologize for being wrong, emphatically, derisivesly wrong, about basicsally everything, so, fuck em, and fuck this country honestly.
Two books you might want to check out are The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols and “The Tyranny of Merit” by Michael Sandel. Here is a link to his TED profile and talks. Both talk about why this is happening and how we got here. While somewhat depressing, I found both books very validating(? can’t put a word to it) of all the frustration with family/friends these last years. Education has been gutted and imho real history is no longer taught. Add the internet and social media to the culture and suddenly everyone is an expert. In less than a year, he has destroyed the integrity, reputation and effectiveness of every federal agency made to keep us safe and let us sleep at night. The UN has been effectively neutralized by our vote on the security council. It’s maddening beyond words and I’m scared shitless of what’s to come.
I will try and check those out, thanks for the reading list =D
But uh… yeah.
I had a terrifying ‘validation’ moment when I realized that +/- 1 year of when I graduated Uni…
That was the peak of average US literacy and math abilities.
I have always gotten a lot of shit for describing myself as usually the most intelligent person I know personally, in the real, in most social situations I am in…
And well now the chances of me personally running into someone on my level who is younger than me are approaching zero.
Most people I meet, even doctors, other kinds of professionals… they do not believe me when I tell them I have two degrees and used to work for MSFT, a Fortune 500 logistics company, that I independently taught myself how to code in multiple programming languages and SQL, unrelated to my degrees, that I have enough knowledge to build a video game from “scratch” (yay Godot!), because I have also been making video game mods for two decades…
They just think I am literally crazy and making it up, because I don’t look or talk like a corpo type.
Not only do they never apologize for being wrong, they never apologize for accusing you of wearing tinfoil when what you said would happen, happens.
Then they continue telling you you’re over-reacting about the current thing you’re telling them.
Its like consistently predicting the lottery numbers, and then arguing with you when they keep losing even though you tell them the winning number the day before every time.
IIRC there was a funny tale … in christian medieval times, it was illegal to tell the future. (like, fortune tellers and such)
in the text i read, people predicting the future was seen as a “real” thing, i.e. they believed it really worked. they still didn’t like it though. i wonder why.
Sadly, us Americans and our Exceptionalism taught us that ‘it couldn’t happen here’, and we are so arrogant as to truly believe we are somehow immune to the forces of history that broadly apply everywhere and at all times.
Fucking oh well I guess, at least I can sleep soundly knowing that I tried my damndest.
I have had friends start to freak out this term. I told them that most of this same stuff happened last term, you just didn’t hear about it (or listen to what I was saying) for some reason. Granted, he’s become much, much worse since our conversations in February because of SCOTUS backing him, but he had concentration camps last time as well.
Yeah. The news broke in 2020 during the later part of the election cycle, but the incidents started around 2018.
A fourth of the population swore up and down it didn’t happen (“But if it did, they shouldn’t have been here illegally in the first place!”), a fourth said “I don’t know who to trust so I’m going to ignore it 😔”, a fourth said “I don’t follow politics/I’m more worried about consumer prices”, and a fourth was pissed.
Welcome to American politics. Leave your sense of decency at the door.
I mean, Trump did Jan 6th, said he wanted to be a dictator, Project 2025 outlined everything that was going to be, and is currently being done.
It was not any kind of difficult to figure this out lately, unless one just prides themself on being ignorant or has some kind of unexamined onion layers of normalcy bias at the same they are angry and worried about how not normal things are.
Oh well, cognitive dissonance is a bitch I guess, time for the Great Filter to attempt to cull that out of the gene pool.
Yall the history majors have been freaking the fuck out for over a decade
Source: am history major and have been freaking the fuck out for over a decade as have several classmates and other historians
I am not a history major, but I got a 5 on AP US History… and have degrees in Econ and Poli Sci.
Basically, the last 10 years for me has been everyone I know thinking I am literally insane.
And then roughly 90% of what I was saying would happen, has now happened, within +/- 2 years of when I said it probably would.
None of them have bothered to apologize for being wrong, emphatically, derisivesly wrong, about basicsally everything, so, fuck em, and fuck this country honestly.
Two books you might want to check out are The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols and “The Tyranny of Merit” by Michael Sandel. Here is a link to his TED profile and talks. Both talk about why this is happening and how we got here. While somewhat depressing, I found both books very validating(? can’t put a word to it) of all the frustration with family/friends these last years. Education has been gutted and imho real history is no longer taught. Add the internet and social media to the culture and suddenly everyone is an expert. In less than a year, he has destroyed the integrity, reputation and effectiveness of every federal agency made to keep us safe and let us sleep at night. The UN has been effectively neutralized by our vote on the security council. It’s maddening beyond words and I’m scared shitless of what’s to come.
I will try and check those out, thanks for the reading list =D
But uh… yeah.
I had a terrifying ‘validation’ moment when I realized that +/- 1 year of when I graduated Uni…
That was the peak of average US literacy and math abilities.
I have always gotten a lot of shit for describing myself as usually the most intelligent person I know personally, in the real, in most social situations I am in…
And well now the chances of me personally running into someone on my level who is younger than me are approaching zero.
Most people I meet, even doctors, other kinds of professionals… they do not believe me when I tell them I have two degrees and used to work for MSFT, a Fortune 500 logistics company, that I independently taught myself how to code in multiple programming languages and SQL, unrelated to my degrees, that I have enough knowledge to build a video game from “scratch” (yay Godot!), because I have also been making video game mods for two decades…
They just think I am literally crazy and making it up, because I don’t look or talk like a corpo type.
Yep, I just love it here.
Not only do they never apologize for being wrong, they never apologize for accusing you of wearing tinfoil when what you said would happen, happens.
Then they continue telling you you’re over-reacting about the current thing you’re telling them.
Its like consistently predicting the lottery numbers, and then arguing with you when they keep losing even though you tell them the winning number the day before every time.
It’s like being Cassandra
People hate prophets especially when they are right
IIRC there was a funny tale … in christian medieval times, it was illegal to tell the future. (like, fortune tellers and such)
in the text i read, people predicting the future was seen as a “real” thing, i.e. they believed it really worked. they still didn’t like it though. i wonder why.
Yes this! There’s literally no space for them between treating you insane and then freaking out.
No one could’ve known!
My new motto:
Suffer no fools.
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Sadly, us Americans and our Exceptionalism taught us that ‘it couldn’t happen here’, and we are so arrogant as to truly believe we are somehow immune to the forces of history that broadly apply everywhere and at all times.
Fucking oh well I guess, at least I can sleep soundly knowing that I tried my damndest.
You sound exactly like who i imagine i would be if i had grown up in the US.
Send an eagle to save me, Gandalf!
unfortunately i’m currently bird-less :/
Welp, guess I’m getting out of Mordor on foot then, lol.
I have had friends start to freak out this term. I told them that most of this same stuff happened last term, you just didn’t hear about it (or listen to what I was saying) for some reason. Granted, he’s become much, much worse since our conversations in February because of SCOTUS backing him, but he had concentration camps last time as well.
I remember reading about them sterilizing migrant women in camps at the border last term and just staring at the wall for a good minute.
Can’t wait (/s) to see what escalations await us.
Holy fuck.
Yeah. The news broke in 2020 during the later part of the election cycle, but the incidents started around 2018.
A fourth of the population swore up and down it didn’t happen (“But if it did, they shouldn’t have been here illegally in the first place!”), a fourth said “I don’t know who to trust so I’m going to ignore it 😔”, a fourth said “I don’t follow politics/I’m more worried about consumer prices”, and a fourth was pissed.
Welcome to American politics. Leave your sense of decency at the door.
I mean, Trump did Jan 6th, said he wanted to be a dictator, Project 2025 outlined everything that was going to be, and is currently being done.
It was not any kind of difficult to figure this out lately, unless one just prides themself on being ignorant or has some kind of unexamined onion layers of normalcy bias at the same they are angry and worried about how not normal things are.
Oh well, cognitive dissonance is a bitch I guess, time for the Great Filter to attempt to cull that out of the gene pool.
I feel for you, none of us are getting apologies of any kind, nor are we likely to get any accolades for being right. Shit sucks