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it got me thinking so billy joel describes all of the historical events that had developed in the period between 1949 and 1989. a lot of those shaped the world and changed history, with lasting influences. it's a very informative song that benefits from important history in those 40 years too bad there hasn't been much history post-1989. like between '89 and '01 you had the fall of the U.S.S.R., Oklahoma City bombings, Waco Compound, U.S.S. Cole, etc. some neat history there, but none debatedly to the scope of what occurred between '49 and '61. then 9/11 occurred and nothing much has happened since then that wasn't new technology benefiting lazy millennials and a few oil-driven wars. it makes me think that the more we have access to social media, the less important history is actually occurring and recorded that will be remembered by future generations. gently caress me and my wandering mind at 2 am.
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I guess we put the fire out
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Francis Fukuyama called he wants his soiled toilet paper back
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Hector Beerlioz posted:I guess we put the fire out
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he kinda spends too much time on 50-60s and rushes through the rest, typical boomer
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Mariana Horchata posted:he kinda spends too much time on 50-60s and rushes through the rest, typical boomer
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Nov 28, 2015 08:21
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The columbia shuttle fell apart, I guess that's some fire
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the next major historical event will be the millenials being wiped out during ww3
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ANIME IS BLOOD posted:the next major historical event will be the millenials being wiped out during ww3
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Nov 28, 2015 08:25
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can you really not think of anything important thats happened since 2002
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Commie NedFlanders posted:Francis Fukuyama called he wants his soiled toilet paper back
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cool song though. i like parodys of it also
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gagelion is back posted:can you really not think of anything important thats happened since 2002 Justin Beiber?
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gagelion is back posted:can you really not think of anything important thats happened since 2002 iraq war london bombings madrid bombings findng osama electing Obama legalization of gay marriage columbia explosion paris shootings 2008 economy collapse notice how they're almost all either wars, acts of terrorism, or domestic occurrences. that does not bode well.
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Nov 28, 2015 08:28
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what year did the avatar series get invented?
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dad gay. so what posted:what year did the avatar series get invented? like 2008 or something idk
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duke nukem forever new star wars michael jackson died 4chan donald trump
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Juggalos came to be Bronies came to be Furries came to be
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if i wasn't in bed i'd bang out a post-1989 version. maybe i'll do that tomorrow.
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so who started the fire anyway? I never got that part.
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symbolic posted:afghan war yeah and the song referrences the cola wars. check ate
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Western hegemony isn't our fault is what Billy Joel is saying. and the middle east deserves to continue to burn forever.
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Britney Spears Titanic film Janet Jackson Superbowl nip slip Dolly the sheep Princess Diana death Hubble space telescope SARS The Passion of the Christ
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Hector Beerlioz posted:Britney Spears i have some bad news about dolly...
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Despite the name of the album, Taylor Swift's 1989 actually came out in 2014 and that's a pretty big world event. Probably bigger than whatever you nerds are listing
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America making the middle east a better place and ending terrorism 
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Op if you think we are living in less interesting times I would recommend these two books:  The first one presents the idea that the cultural and economic factors that made the the 50's-80's so radically historic have ended and that we are living in a boring age because we've settled the global argument about which forms of government, economics and culture are going to inherent the earth. Those decades were a clash of civilizations, a battle of ideologies, but that all ended at the end of the 80's and the 1990's showed that American style liberal democratic capitalism had won and there is no more room for great historical struggles. He then proceeds to utterly decimate this idea by describing and analyzing the one-two death punch of the short lived era of stability and the idea that we had reached "the end of history". He argues that with the 2001 WTC attacks and 2008 economic crisis, this narrative was torn open, we were once again cast into struggle by the violent intrusions of the Real. He argues that with these two events, we witnessed the end of the assumptions about liberal democratic capitalist hegemony and have once again entered a new era of radical change and upheaval. The second one he wrote a little later, he describes our system as going through the stages of grief and mourning as we face the end of an era and the forced intrusion into a new one. He describes the ways in which western culture is manifesting the classical stages of grief and then looks forward into the horrifying future and poses questions about problems that are right on our horizon which we currently have no clue how to address since the problems of the new era cannot be viewed through any historical framework as they were never before possible. He addresses the rise of new de facto apartheid systems appearing all over the world (think Elysium), the rising battle between neoliberalism and radical fundamentalism taking place in the void left by the absence of leftism proper, as well as the frightening new possibilities that come with technological developments such as intellectual property issues, communication and privacy, virtual reality, and the frightening terror of trans humanism becoming a real possibility with the increase of biogenetic and computer technology all without any agreed upon moral or ethical standards.
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From 1989 to 2015 we went from a world where only gay nerds used computers to a world where people die over twitter beef lol
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transhumanism sounds loving chill
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gagelion is back posted:transhumanism sounds loving chill Maybe we should figure out how to be properly human before we try skipping ahead Death to videodrome long live the new flesh
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Business Octopus posted:From 1989 to 2015 we went from a world where only gay nerds used computers to a world where people die over twitter beef lol Also we did finally find the beef (its on Twitter)
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List songs were very popular. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY I can't think of a recent one, so, yeah, you better write one already.
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Welcome...to the Videodrome...
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I.C. posted:List songs were very popular. there was one that was just a list of brands it was really bad e. it was swedish house mafia SMILLENNIALSMILLEN fucked around with this message at 08:58 on Nov 28, 2015 |
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crapple ipoop - 2007
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I.C. posted:List songs were very popular. Even in Iraq War time period. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q16yI2d9sNE
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Steve Jobs passed away and with him, the heart and soul of America
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The next We Didn't Start the Fire/End Of The World As We Know It will be by Weezer.
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I.C. posted:List songs were very popular. one that note, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqpPliNe17E
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 Ian Malcolm posted:“[..]Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species."
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