oh wow look at me I’m a human! when do I live? now, clearly. Everyone older than me lived in these descriptive periods of history that define the je ne sais quoi of the everything. I’m gonna tell everyone in the future that I’m living in the “now” time! wowwww, fuck you dickhead, real fucking selfless ain’cha. now we have to deal with the mass confusion every time someone distinguishes between modern[1] and contemporary.[2] i want your incorporeal form toyed with by forces unknown to me because you’ve slightly inconvenienced literally everyone in the modern day. jackass

  1. kinda not now technically, depending on context ↩︎

  2. definitively now ↩︎

  • Sleepless One@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I just read this on redsails and it’s relevant.

    [Bukharin’s educational materia]l reduces the task to asserting that one is a special person simply because they were born in the present time, and not in any one of past centuries. We might recall here the story of the French petit bourgeois who discovered the word “contemporary” and thought it made him sound fancy so he printed it on his business card. In every time there has been a past and a present, so “being of the present” is a boast only good for ridicule.