Does anyone else feel kind of sad that they missed out on living through the 20th century? Sure most of us were born anywhere from 1980-2000, but that leaves another 80 years that hosted some of the most incredible events in human history.
>ywn witness the very end of the industrial revolution at the turn of the 19th century
>ywn attend Queen Victoria's funeral
>ywn fight in the Boer War
>ywn never invade China to put down the Boxer Rebellion
>ywn be a Russian infantryman at Port Arthur while your trench is smashed to pieces by Japanese artillery
>ywn be a passenger on the Titanic
>ywn witness Archduke Ferdinand's assassination
>ywn storm the cliffs of Gallipoli
>ywn die in a futile charge to take a German communications trench at the Somme
>ywn kill the Tsar and his family in the basement of his imperial residence
>ywn survive a dogfight against Jasta 11 and Baron von Ritchthofen
>ywn be a delegate at the Treaty of Versailles
>ywn attend Lenin's funeral and notice a mysterious mustached Georgian standing in the shadows behind his coffin
>ywn stroll down the Wilhelmstrasse at the height of the Weimar Republic's cultural hegemony
>ywn witness Lindbergh's historic landing in Paris after his record-breaking transatlantic flight
>ywn get into a streetfight with communists and NSDAP brownshirts
>ywn kill yourself after you lose it all in the stock market crash of 1929
>ywn travel across the United States during the height of the great depression
>ywn be a victim of Stalin's purges
>ywn attend the '36 Olympics in Berlin
>ywn be the first German soldier across the Polish border
>ywn be a French brigadier-general who kills himself after realising a Panzer corps has advanced 80 kilometres in the past 24 hours
>ywn defend Britain from waves of Bf109s and Stukas
>ywn be a midshipman aboard the USS Arizona as a squadron of Zero fighters make a bombing run over your station
>ywn advance across North Africa to your target in Alexandria after routing the Commonwealth forces
I ran out of character space and that was only 1942
I just want to go back lads
Kind of yes.
There's literally nothing of importance happening in this millennium beside the rise of terrorism.
1900s were absolute shit no matter how you look at it.
>collapse of the old world order
>emergence of the USSR
>emergence of Nazi Germany
>two bloodiest conflicts in human history
>generally, tons and tons of genocides and wars everywhere
>feminism, marxism going mainstream
>Middle East fucked beyond recognition
>Eastern Europe fucked beyond recognition
Sure, we made technological progress and now have internet, airplanes and dick pills, but is the rest of it any good?
>>452743
I didn't say it was good, but imo the 20th century was the golden age of historical events
>>452755
I'd say 19th century. Napoleonic reforms, the rise of nationalism and socialism and shit like that. Even technology, the invention of telegraphy for example is a much bigger revolution than say, the internet.
20th century is largely just an extension of 19th.
>>452819
it was pretty fucking terrible for everyone who lived in europe, including the nazis themselves
>>>/pol/
>>452829
>uses the >>>/lit/ ad hominem
>mad as fuck when someone returns him the favor
I'm not a liberal, I'm a reactionary. Nazism basically ruined it for everyone involved.
>combining a horseshit French revolution ideology (nationalism) with another horseshit French revolution ideology (socialism)
>elevating a bunch of plebeians into collective ethnic aristocracy rooted in jack shit
>obsessed with creating a "new society" instead of reverting to status quo ante and virulently hating conservative reaction currents
>Germany ending up partitioned and castrated, one half cucked by the Americans and the other half by the Russians
>any valid criticism of the Jews is now rendered invalid because you're automatically equated with Hitler
>>452825
Dostler got a raw deal.
>>452829
Reminder that this guy is a leftist who false flags on this board to make people believe that "le /pol/ invasion" is real.
>>452903
better than being strung up at nuremberg
>>452737
We've only been 15 years in. There's still 85 years left, and it's my personal belief that something is going to go very wrong in the next decades.
>>452789
I disagree, there's the widespread adoption of the internal combustion engine, powered heavier than air flight, rise of microelectronics, and of course nuclear power and the nuclear bomb. The two biggest wars were fought in the first half of the 20th century, and most of the events in the 20th century led directly to the relative safe Western countries most of us on this site live in.
>>452737
Still a long way to go m80
>>452726
>Pop out a baby and die at 15
No thanks
Seriously, you can name same amount or even more things you did experience and you will experience in this century than things you didn't experience. It's pointless to think such things OP, get over it. We are all yearning for things we won't get to experience but you grow up and continue.
20th century was shit compared with the 19th senpai
Honestly, all of those events sound awful, and horrifying. I have no qualms whatsoever with being a comfortable middle-class white in a rich society that doesn't need to fear for his life on a daily basis, thank you very much.
no because then i wouldnt have watched spongebob in my childhood
>>453591
985 years actually.
