RE: The enormity of WWII
July 21, 2023 at 5:42 pm
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2023 at 6:36 pm by Anomalocaris.)
WWII only seems more consequential than a host of other historical events because it occurred recently and dovetail with recency bias. things like the black death, the greco Persian wars, the fall of the roman empire, the islamic conquest, the european colonization of america, the bronze age collapse, etc, all seem to me to likely be substantially more consequential to the long term subsequence development of human history than WWII might.
i suspect in several centuries WWII would seem to people then as the 30 years war is seen now, a period of violence and turmoil that defines a range of major long term changes, but not necessarily an event of epochal importance akin to colonization or america or the like.
i suspect in several centuries WWII would seem to people then as the 30 years war is seen now, a period of violence and turmoil that defines a range of major long term changes, but not necessarily an event of epochal importance akin to colonization or america or the like.
