Something to humble you Options

[Robert]

I read this on one of the dozen forums I frequent which have discussions about current events.
The discussion was about "how bad" things are now, mainly pointing to
Iraq War
Global warming
Their point was things have never been as bad as they are right now

Someone replied back with this.

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Let's see. My grandmother lived through the following:

The First World War
The first red scare
The complete collapse of the global economy
The Second World War
The Holocaust
The Japanese threat
The German threat
The second red scare
The threat of nuclear annihilation
Mob-related violence
The Cuban missile crisis
The assassination of a US president
The civil rights movement (which nearly tore the country apart)
Vietnam
The fuel crisis of the 70's
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I though it was very interesting change of perspective.