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   myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 20:45:00 JST myrmepropagandist

   Thinking about Kissinger living 100 years— and how when I was younger I was lucky enough to know and talk to many people who could remember the 1920s— so many great aunts and uncles who were over or close to 100– but now? They are all gone. And a man who was a child in that decade is an anomaly.

   Soon no one will be alive who remembers the 20s.

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 20:44:52 JST myrmepropagandist

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     Slavery is only 5 generations back for me since my family is full of people who tended to live a long time. And since I knew great grandma rather well it feels like less. She grew up with many adults who were former slaves in her life.

     IDK if it's trauma but I do get annoyed when people act like slavery was "so long long ago..."

     No. I knew someone who knew slaves. It's not that "long ago"

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     Seiðr (illuminatus@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 20:44:53 JST Seiðr

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     @futurebird I began to deal with that generational trauma just last year, and it has conditioned me for so long in the fear and perception of the "distant" past…

     Aral Balkan and GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.
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     Seiðr (illuminatus@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 20:44:55 JST Seiðr

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     @futurebird It's not so much the memories of the older people I've known so much as the fact that my own father was born in 1925 and I was the only child of his second marriage. I was just one generation distant from events such as the Spanish Civil War and its post-war in the worst years of the dictatorship of Franco, and he was really traumatised by that, something that got passed to me.

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 20:44:58 JST myrmepropagandist

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     When I was very young I was so impressed with my oldest great aunt who was born in 1896! I’d pester her about what it was like in the 1800s —

     I think the past becomes history when no one can remember it— so you have to read about it.

     What is the person with the oldest living memory of the past you have known?

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 01:06:48 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @futurebird My African American host mom told me about that they recorded her grandmom on audio tapes before she died, talking about her own experience as a slave. (They lived long and generations were far apart.) It’s not that long ago.