The Atlantic recently highlighted a video on youtube of a game show from 1956 in which one of the contestants had been a witness to the Lincoln assassination. It's amazing to think that we see a lot of the past as a far off place; when it's actually closer than we think. There are certain events that when spoken about seem so far off, but in relative terms weren't long ago. A comment on this video that really struck me though was the following
"During Mr. Seymour he crossed paths with people who lived through the George Washington presidency, and
with people who would live through the Barack Obama presidency.
Amazing."
It is amazing to think that we think we are so far off from the past but the truth is the past isn't all that distant and still effects us today.
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