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[–] mrfriki@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago (5 children)

My history teacher used to say that over the course of history every generation faces a full scale war that directly impact them. Looking through the last couple of centuries that seems about right. I haven't been in a war yet and I'm a45 years old so, yeah, I'm kinda scared.

This same teacher also used to say that the only "good" thing about a civil war is that the country that faces it nerves goes through another one ever again. Seeing how things are good in the United States now I'm starting to think that this teacher might be wrong.

[–] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 33 points 10 months ago

Yeah, your teacher seemed to deal in absolutes: "it always happens" or "it will never happen again". I think that events can always happen (again) but they don't have to.

[–] BenadrylChunderHatch@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Plenty of countries have had multiple civil wars.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

But their name changed in between so it doesn't count /s

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This reminds me of how WWI was at one point known as 'the war to end all wars'.

How fucking naive were the people who really thought that!

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

they were hopeful...

[–] jasondj@ttrpg.network 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

We were in a weird spot after the Industrial Revolution but before globalism.

Post WWII recovery changed that, when most of the developed world (sans America) was literally in shambles.

I don’t think we’ll ever see another full out war between major powers. Capitalism and the all-mighty dollar will prevent that. But at the same time it will encourage proxy wars.

Scarcity is a concern but again mostly for the smaller powers. More than likely it’ll be some sort of indebtedness between impoverished countries and their pimp nations backing them out of the proxy wars they created.

[–] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

They also said we get a financial crisis every generation. How many have we had?