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I'd pay serious money to jump 30 years into the future just to read what historians will write about our current time.

Not for investment tips or anything practical - just to satisfy my curiosity about how this bizarre period will be analyzed and understood.

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When everyone feels this way instead of fighting for the future they want to make reality... There are journalists, protestors, entrepreneurs, unionists, billionaires, etc, all fighting for what those history books will say. Ukrainians are fighting for what they will say right now.

I think a better question is what do you want them to say. Do you want them to say tyranny triumphed un-resisted?

Assuming it isn't the most sane period for a long time to come.

True.

And … if there is a future at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eghl19elKk8

You should watch this (12min). You just expressed the "politics of eternity."

You should check out Timothy Snyder in general to see what historians are saying about our current times.

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