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In retrospect horrible people, but a product of their times. However reading first person accounts of the ongoings of those days are truly awe inspiring.
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i've been a 20th century head for many years. Reading about the 19th century has been appalling but a lot of things actually make a lot of sense!!
Jan 3, 2024
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As a history major I get asked this question a lot and tbh I donโt think I would really want to travel back in time after studying about the past so much. We humans tend to over glorify the past a bit too much and the past is often crueler than we think. BUTTT I wonโt mind checking out Elizabethan age
Dec 31, 2024
i read only one book about it, but i guess in a broader sense i find the history of time keeping and astronomy/logy(it was practically the same during most of history) really interesting. thinking about a time before light pollution, being able to see the milky way with the naked eye. etc.
one of my profs said that history is the story we tell ourselves about the past, and that the past (happened but) does not exist. that blew my mind a bit.
Feb 20, 2024
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I used to feel a similar way spending hours scrolling through instagram and tiktok, which provide quick but unearned instant gratification inherently frying your brain with content. But the way i got out of it was to force myself to consume content that made me wait for the pay off, be it youtube essays, movies, books etc. it makes you regain your attention span to a significant extent and then you feel independent of that need to mindlessly scroll in just a months time. Just be careful to not fall into that rut again. Its a slippery slope.
TLDR: just watch a mad man on youtube rant about an obscure piece of media till tiktoks dont interest you anymore.
Jan 11, 2025
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A quote by Marcus Aurelius. Thoughts on this in being applicable to todayโs world?
Jan 12, 2025
i dont think it gets better than this song for a dance party tbvh. a song for absolute divas
Jan 11, 2025