Thread by @visakanv

Wait there were Two industrial revolutions? I am tired

1. Textiles, railroads, iron, coal, steam

2. steel, chemicals, petroleum, automobile, electricity

I feel like the thing most missing from my education was the emotional quality of things. Like how WW1 was a hideous shock that made lots of smart people become bleak and nihilistic af; I feel like I only started contemplating that stuff in my late 20s. Tho... I did read abt it..

I guess an interesting thing about getting older is I accumulate all this additional context for making sense of things, which makes me rethink and reevaluate all sorts of things that were formerly kinda vague

the Black Death feels marginally less abstract & distant after covid

and think about how if the Black Death was much worse than corona - people would’ve felt forsaken by God. Like really imagine the atmosphere. This is why we say “bless you” to people who sneeze, bc mfs would sneeze and go straight to hell, don’t past go don’t collect $200

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