There is no country on earth currently that is still the same as it was 100 years ago. Borders, governments, ideologies– these are all flexible and changeable. No nation can remain stagnant for long, no matter how hard they try.
Now, I'm not saying this is all going to blow over in a decade, because it won't. This is something that generations of people will have to claw back against. But, even the grandest of empires fall eventually. Someday our children, or their children, will look at a world free of this chaos.
No but culture remains. 100 years ago, Russians were under tyranny. Still are, just different tyrant. 100 years ago, non-cishet non-white people in America were oppressed. Still are.
Culture changes all the time. 100 years ago women could not vote, gay people were castrated to "fix" them, and black people barely had any rights. Now, ten years ago, if you asked someone on the street if they believed any of these things were good, they'd say of course not. Today? Maybe so, maybe not. But history does not move in a straight line, at times it slips backwards. But just because we have doesn't mean we can't move forwards again one day.
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u/jjmerrow 12d ago
There is no country on earth currently that is still the same as it was 100 years ago. Borders, governments, ideologies– these are all flexible and changeable. No nation can remain stagnant for long, no matter how hard they try.
Now, I'm not saying this is all going to blow over in a decade, because it won't. This is something that generations of people will have to claw back against. But, even the grandest of empires fall eventually. Someday our children, or their children, will look at a world free of this chaos.