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And just 20 years or so later, many of the kids in the video would probably be dead :(
by mmmrk 6y ago
And just 20 years or so later, many of the kids in the video would probably be dead :(
- 082349872349872 6y agoStefan Zweig's World of Yesterday captures how much of a shock it was to move from the progress-and-civilisation of his corner of the nineteenth century to the fake-news[1]-and-senseless-violence[2] of the twentieth (Zweig hung on after the first barbaric shock, but gave up after the second. I think Schachnovelle pretty much captures the mood he must've been in.) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23777984 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23777984 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23895444 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23895444 [2] we're all familiar with this; I had had better hopes for the twenty-first...