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Post by John Titor on Dec 17, 2021 13:00:56 GMT 10
It's weird. It feels like mid 2003 is much further away from Autumn 2001 than Now is compared to March 2020 but in reality they're about the same distance. You said you have no memory of anything before 2006 in another thread, Mid 2003 did not feel that far off from Fall 01 living in it. Unless you mean in hindsight looking @ the history books.
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Post by nightmarefarm on Dec 17, 2021 14:00:19 GMT 10
It's weird. It feels like mid 2003 is much further away from Autumn 2001 than Now is compared to March 2020 but in reality they're about the same distance. You said you have no memory of anything before 2006 in another thread, Mid 2003 did not feel that far off from Fall 01 living in it. Unless you mean in hindsight looking @ the history books. I mean chronologically. And I do have memories of the early 00s it's just I don't remember it that well.
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Post by John Titor on Dec 17, 2021 14:13:00 GMT 10
You said you have no memory of anything before 2006 in another thread, Mid 2003 did not feel that far off from Fall 01 living in it. Unless you mean in hindsight looking @ the history books. I mean chronologically. And I do have memories of the early 00s it's just I don't remember it that well. when it was going on early and mid 2003 felt connected to late 2001
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Post by nightmarefarm on Dec 17, 2021 21:57:52 GMT 10
I mean chronologically. And I do have memories of the early 00s it's just I don't remember it that well. when it was going on early and mid 2003 felt connected to late 2001
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Post by John Titor on Dec 18, 2021 1:27:22 GMT 10
when early/mid 2003 was going on it did not feel disconnected to Fall 2001 like I said
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Post by dudewitdausername on Dec 18, 2021 1:30:32 GMT 10
when early/mid 2003 was going on it did not feel disconnected to Fall 2001 like I said I think he just means mid 2003 felt further from late 2001 because there was a whole 2002 separating them, while 2020 and 2021 are still connected together. Something like that, not that they felt disconnected pop culturally.
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Post by sman12 on Dec 18, 2021 13:15:59 GMT 10
I'm using 9/11 because the early 2000s is a more relevant time to compare the early 2020s to than the 1930s and 1940s... Why not using the 2008 recession then? I really don't think a one day American event is comparable to a worldwide pandemic that's dragging close to 2 years now and is impacting much of everyday day life... Agreed. Obviously, I didn't experience 9/11 abd the immediate aftermath of it, but I do know that life in America still mostly went on afterwards despite the massive vigilantism and paranoia with things like the Patriot Act and terror threat scales. COVID is STILL mostly with us after 2 years of engulfing the world and 3 years when it was first discovered.
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Post by dudewitdausername on Dec 18, 2021 13:22:15 GMT 10
I'm using 9/11 because the early 2000s is a more relevant time to compare the early 2020s to than the 1930s and 1940s... Why not using the 2008 recession then? I really don't think a one day American event is comparable to a worldwide pandemic that's dragging close to 2 years now and is impacting much of everyday day life... I guessed I used 9/11 because both it and COVID were decade-defining events that happened relatively early in their decade. Gen X often uses 9/11 as the dividing line for the "last good days/when everything changed", I imagine Gen Z will do the same with COVID in 20 years. You don't really see this with the 2008 recession.
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Post by dudewitdausername on Dec 18, 2021 13:27:10 GMT 10
Why not using the 2008 recession then? I really don't think a one day American event is comparable to a worldwide pandemic that's dragging close to 2 years now and is impacting much of everyday day life... Agreed. Obviously, I didn't experience 9/11 abd the immediate aftermath of it, but I do know that life in America still mostly went on afterwards despite the massive vigilantism and paranoia with things like the Patriot Act and terror threat scales. COVID is STILL mostly with us after 2 years of engulfing the world and 3 years when it was first discovered. COVID was discovered in November or December 2019, two years ago...
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Post by sman12 on Dec 18, 2021 14:23:07 GMT 10
Agreed. Obviously, I didn't experience 9/11 abd the immediate aftermath of it, but I do know that life in America still mostly went on afterwards despite the massive vigilantism and paranoia with things like the Patriot Act and terror threat scales. COVID is STILL mostly with us after 2 years of engulfing the world and 3 years when it was first discovered. COVID was discovered in November or December 2019, two years ago... Oh, I was talking about the COVID situation by 2022; sorry if I wasn't clear enough.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2021 3:17:47 GMT 10
Why not using the 2008 recession then? I really don't think a one day American event is comparable to a worldwide pandemic that's dragging close to 2 years now and is impacting much of everyday day life... I guessed I used 9/11 because both it and COVID were decade-defining events that happened relatively early in their decade. Gen X often uses 9/11 as the dividing line for the "last good days/when everything changed", I imagine Gen Z will do the same with COVID in 20 years. You don't really see this with the 2008 recession. Millennials as well. I graduated college right into the 2008 recession so for me, that was like a "preview" of the 2020s. However, even then life went on. After 2020, it hasn't. I feel the world I grew up in died in March 2020, never to return. Unless a person signed up for the armed forces and was deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, most people's lives didn't change after 9/11 the way they have been changed by Covid and the current economic depression. In the US we also now have a very real possibility of civil war during the second half of this decade. The 2020s are unlike anything most people alive today have seen and it's difficult to draw accurate comparison to the relatively "mild" crisis' of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
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Post by John Titor on Jan 31, 2022 11:17:00 GMT 10
This is hall of fame worthy thread lol
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