I’m not sure it is but it’s at least not, like, orders of magnitude less disruptive to everyday life, it just had a much shorter acute phase

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We’re very quick to analogize present-day events to these kind of seismic spasms in order to justify our mad politics but there’s simply nothing we’ve experienced that’s comparable. Our disruptions are all the margin, one number slightly outrunning another number for a few months

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And obviously the US was the wealthy nation that got off the easiest in WW2 - our cities were never bombed, our populations never displaced, our government never dissolved

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I guess it makes sense but I never realized that the United States *literally ended all new car production and sales between 1941 and 1946* I don’t think modern minds can comprehend the social and economic disruptions that earlier generations faced

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If something seems wrong in the polling data, is one not supposed to say anything? Are we not supposed to air our opinions anymore, lest we be accused of being "microwaved brained" by the internet? Again, this is so fundamentally illiberal; it's obscene.

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