Per VognsenThe new war has me thinking. The second Iraq War feels like yesterday to me and the first Iraq War is still sufficiently vivid. The starkest reminder of the passage of time is the realization that a lot of people either weren't alive for the last Iraq War or weren't old enough to process what was going on. I was 7 when the Berlin Wall came down but have no memory of it even though I remember a lot of other things from a younger age than that.
Emil Persson@pervognsen When I was a kid, Holocaust survivors used to visit schools once in a while and tell their stories and show their marks left on their body and so on. They tended to be in their 60-70s back then. By now, I don't know if there are any left to visit the schools anymore, or sound the alarm in media.
The rise of fascist tendencies in the west coincides in time with the loss of this generation. It's something I reflect on from time to time.