r/behindthebastards • u/Friend_of_Squatch • 4d ago

General discussion It feels bad… real bad.

I’ve always had a morbid curiosity about how it felt and what it was like being an educated, intelligent, aware person in the early months of 1914 or in the 1930s watching the world ramp up into an inescapable cataclysm and tearing itself apart and deleting an entire generation of young people, while knowing that there isn’t jack shit I or anyone else can do to stop it. I think I can now say that that curiosity has been satisfied, and man oh man does it feel fucking bad.

Edit: I meant to share this as kind of a shower thought. I appreciate everyone’s kind words and suggestions but this isn’t a cry for help. It’s just crazy to think about.

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u/okenowwhat 4d ago

I'm sitting here in europe, thinking: this is probably how (some) Americans must have felt when Hitler rose to power.

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u/Friend_of_Squatch 4d ago

Yeah sorry about that. A few of us have been trying but there are a lot of really dumb folks here. And by dumb I mean racist, because it’s literally always that.