Aura citizens had lived for generations untouched by any of the horrors they read about from history.
She repeatedly says that this peace had only lasted a hundred years.
Hokay. We have an analogy for this, guys, and it is the best analogy in the history of the world, because it was the worst war in the history of the world.
World War I broke out, oh, 98 1/2 years ago.
Only two people still living were actually there. Only a handful more remember the era at all. But to say that we've completely forgotten it and it no longer affects our culture and the way we view ourselves as a race is BULLSHIT. And this is not going to change in the next three years.
Nor would it have changed if there had never been a World War II, or any other conflict, after it. It was just. That. Big.
Yes, over time, the memory of it will fade. In another century it'll be roughly as distant as the Napoleonic Wars. In a few thousand it'll no doubt seem as piddly and provincial as the Peloponnesian War seems today. But not in a hundred years. A hundred years is three generations. A hundred years is the quiet horror in your grandparents' eyes as they try to forget but never can. A hundred years is it was such a waste and we must never let that happen again and my God, we are such monsters.
And to suggest that it could ever be otherwise is to insult the human race as a whole. We have empathy, too. We don't forget so quickly.
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She repeatedly says that this peace had only lasted a hundred years.
Hokay. We have an analogy for this, guys, and it is the best analogy in the history of the world, because it was the worst war in the history of the world.
World War I broke out, oh, 98 1/2 years ago.
Only two people still living were actually there. Only a handful more remember the era at all. But to say that we've completely forgotten it and it no longer affects our culture and the way we view ourselves as a race is BULLSHIT. And this is not going to change in the next three years.
Nor would it have changed if there had never been a World War II, or any other conflict, after it. It was just. That. Big.
Yes, over time, the memory of it will fade. In another century it'll be roughly as distant as the Napoleonic Wars. In a few thousand it'll no doubt seem as piddly and provincial as the Peloponnesian War seems today. But not in a hundred years. A hundred years is three generations. A hundred years is the quiet horror in your grandparents' eyes as they try to forget but never can. A hundred years is it was such a waste and we must never let that happen again and my God, we are such monsters.
And to suggest that it could ever be otherwise is to insult the human race as a whole. We have empathy, too. We don't forget so quickly.
I hate this book already.