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In reply to the discussion: I'll tell you what bothers me the most: [View all]Hestia
(3,818 posts)Depression, WWII, etc. is how we know what happened and get a clearer picture into people and events around them, their states, their country during those times.
Long-hand may be best. Tech changes way too fast to think someone would be able to access some app even 20 years from now, much less 40, 50, + years. Or at least keep a hard copy.
Being at home, there is definitely time to do this, become detail oriented and no "news" too small. Posterity will thank us all.
From a couple of long-form articles I was reading about 1918 Flu and Depression, the reason we didn't really didn't hear about even from then was the absolutely brutality in the way people treated each other. No act was too small and evil - not unlike today. Think in terms of "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" Shocking movie. Wish they had the guts to get into the unvarnished truth like that movie does, but the scolders and pearl clutchers, you know. If we have to have movie warnings about smoking, we've gone a bridge too far.
Another great book is "The Great Influenza" - it starts with WWI and the Great Propaganda Machine that had never existed before pre-WWI. We were a collection of states, nothing really united about them all until they started cranking out the lies. Everyone thinks that propaganda started with Goebbels in Germany, nope he learned it all from us. He just fine-tuned it.
After the Flu and Depression, there was a tacit agreement for everyone to move on and not discuss events from those times due to the brutality in the treatment of others. The only way to really learn is to read diaries.