The Rest Is History
Nov. 10th, 2009 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotnik2004I'm sorry I'm too busy to give this historic anniversary the long and loving treatment it deserves, but:
It isn't often that the world changes, in a way that's so big and dramatic and unmistakable that everybody in the world sits up and takes notice, that everybody everywhere is conscious they are experiencing History with a big History Channel capital-H. The world itself seems smaller at these moments, as we sense our connection to each other and to history and to all time. And when one of those real, history-pivoting moments happens, 9 times out of 10 the event is something bad--an assassination or a disaster or a sneak attack. How many times in an average life does the whole world change for the better, overnight? Those moments are worth remembering.
I met Lisa (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
papersource) ten years ago today. Happy anniversary, baby.
What did you think I was talking about?
(Further reading.)
It isn't often that the world changes, in a way that's so big and dramatic and unmistakable that everybody in the world sits up and takes notice, that everybody everywhere is conscious they are experiencing History with a big History Channel capital-H. The world itself seems smaller at these moments, as we sense our connection to each other and to history and to all time. And when one of those real, history-pivoting moments happens, 9 times out of 10 the event is something bad--an assassination or a disaster or a sneak attack. How many times in an average life does the whole world change for the better, overnight? Those moments are worth remembering.
I met Lisa (
papersource) ten years ago today. Happy anniversary, baby.What did you think I was talking about?
(Further reading.)
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Date: 2009-11-10 09:45 pm (UTC)