How Many World Shaking Events Have You Lived Throug

[Zardnaar]

As the title says. Not sure what counts as world shaking but Covid counts.

I think I've gone through 3.

1. Collapse of USSR
2. 9/11
3. Covid

I suppose GFC might count but it didn't effect some countries that much.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

As the title says. Not sure what counts as world shaking but Covid counts.

I think I've gone through 3.

1. Collapse of USSR
2. 9/11
3. Covid

I suppose GFC might count but it didn't effect some countries that much.

GFC?

Does the earth-shaking event have to be bad? I was alive during the Apollo Moon missions. That shook things up. Too bad the photo of Earth, proving it's round, still hasn't convinced the flat-earth zealots.

It's not quite 20 years since 9/11. I would guess that most of CFC can say they lived through it. And most of us have so far lived through covid (RIP rah ).

Hm... going back... depending on your definition of whether a fetus counts as able to live through something, my mother was pregnant with me during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I was a young baby when JFK was assassinated. As for the USSR, something I read in a news article - or maybe I heard it on TV (don't recall)... there was a publishing company that produced atlases. They had just finished their latest update when the USSR disintegrated. Suddenly they had who-knows-how-many copies of newly-printed atlases that were rendered worthless.

 

[Zardnaar]

GFC?

Does the earth-shaking event have to be bad? I was alive during the Apollo Moon missions. That shook things up. Too bad the photo of Earth, proving it's round, still hasn't convinced the flat-earth zealots.

It's not quite 20 years since 9/11. I would guess that most of CFC can say they lived through it. And most of us have so far lived through covid (RIP rah ).

Hm... going back... depending on your definition of whether a fetus counts as able to live through something, my mother was pregnant with me during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I was a young baby when JFK was assassinated. As for the USSR, something I read in a news article - or maybe I heard it on TV (don't recall)... there was a publishing company that produced atlases. They had just finished their latest update when the USSR disintegrated. Suddenly they had who-knows-how-many copies of newly-printed atlases that were rendered worthless.

Landing on moon counts, JFK probably not idk.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

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[Valka D'Ur]

Landing on moon counts, JFK probably not idk.

It likely wasn't as earth-shaking for you as it was for some other countries. A lot of events that happen in the U.S. are more noticeable here, considering we're right next door.

But I repeat: GFC? What does that stand for?

 

[Bamspeedy]

GFC?

Global Financial Crisis

 

[Terxpahseyton]

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[sendos]

For me, it's 9/11, GFC and COVID-19.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I think I've gone through 3.

1. Collapse of USSR
2. 9/11
3. Covid

4. The invention of the Web

 

[sendos]

4. The invention of the Web

Now that you mention it, I should also add: the transition from wired internet to wireless internet in secondary school between year 7 and year 8.

 

[AmazonQueen]

If GFC was a world shaking event so was 1973 Oil Crisis so:

1. 1973 Oil Crisis
2. Collapse of USSR
3. 9/11
4. GFC
5. Covid

 

[EgonSpengler]

Now that you mention it, I should also add: the transition from wired internet to wireless internet in secondary school between year 7 and year 8.

Yeah, the proliferation of 'smart' phones could also be considered a world-shaking event all by itself, because it's enabled individuals to access news and information outside their own country, and it's enabled individuals to (begin to) hold people in power accountable. For example, here in the United States, our police have been revealed, not because they've suddenly started mistreating people, but because people suddenly have handheld video cameras in their pockets. And just about an hour ago, I heard a Russian woman on the radio say that she doesn't bother reading Russian news because it's so unreliable, but she reads foreign news on her phone.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Can we count t e one we're living throug rig t now?

The Great Disappearance of Aitc es?

 

[EgonSpengler]

W y? Did somet ing appen? O , s it.

 

[Kyriakos]

I survived Gamersgate.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Every one of them since I can remember things with certainty beginning in the mid 1950s.

My very first one though was probably our dog "bootsie" being run over by a school bus.
I do not remember McCarthy or the Korean War though. These I do:

• Civil rights
• Cuban Missle Crisis
• Atomic bomb testing; duck and cover
• Polio
• The Davy Crockett phase Disney created
• Elvis
• Cassius Clay
• Etc.

 

[Kyriakos]

Every one of them since I can remember things with certainty beginning in the mid 1950s.

My very first one though was probably our dog "bootsie" being run over by a school bus.
I do not remember McCarthy or the Korean War though. These I do:

• Civil rights
• Cuban Missle Crisis
• Atomic bomb testing; duck and cover
• Polio
• The Davy Crockett phase Disney created
• Elvis
• Cassius Clay
• Etc.

Pretty sure most of the above were less prominent than Vietnam

 

[amadeus]

It all depends on who you are and where you are, doesn’t it? In addition to some of the things here, I’d add in the Lewinsky scandal and the Yugoslav wars. Why? It was the first time I started really paying attention to the news.

I was too young to understand the collapse of the Soviet Union, or why we pushed the Iraqis out of Kuwait. Yes, they happened in my lifetime but their meaning to me—at the time—was not significant.

 

[Zardnaar]

It all depends on who you are and where you are, doesn’t it? In addition to some of the things here, I’d add in the Lewinsky scandal and the Yugoslav wars. Why? It was the first time I started really paying attention to the news.

I was too young to understand the collapse of the Soviet Union, or why we pushed the Iraqis out of Kuwait. Yes, they happened in my lifetime but their meaning to me—at the time—was not significant.

I wouldn't regard either one as world shaking.

 

[amadeus]

I wouldn't regard either one as world shaking.

It would if you lived in Sarajevo, or you were Linda Tripp.