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Did he? Or was it like that even back then? I'm reading this book, and it's like a carbon copy of our world in the US nowadays. I keep yelling "oh my god, this is basically happening right now!!!" Not as blatant and (I don't know the word) as in the book, but essentially the same. The book is like now, but on steroids (to explain the word I'm missing). The divide/polarization, the police brutality, the pollution, corporations and exploitation, the government's overreach..... Etc, it's all here now.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 52 points 5 days ago (6 children)

More a student of history than a predictor of the future. What's happening in the world at the moment is nothing new, human societies are pretty predictable, at a broad scale.

[โ€“] Mushroomm 5 points 5 days ago

My stoned ass was a prophet in the back of a Chevy Cavalier. My history teacher was pretty adamant about the importance of the field but tried to make it as interesting as possible. Even just watching hotel Rwanda spurred a week of curiosity and lessons

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