The majority of everything has always been fluff. It's just we remember those parts of the past that weren't fluff, and forget 97% of it. Otherwise our heads

The majority of everything has always been fluff. It's just we remember those parts of the past that weren't fluff, and forget 97% of it. Otherwise our heads would be entirely fluff. I vividly remember the fall of the Berlin Wall, just about the time I was getting married. Until this spring, I had a similar tendency to think that geopolitics "nowadays" was drab and boring. Evolutionary punctuation only just happens so often, but that doesn't mean evolution has come to a screeching halt. (Or rather, it has - just that it will continue with a screeching lurch when it's good and ready.)