[ethbr0]

It's an interesting point that historical chaos can never be truly communicated or appreciated, except through creative art.

The very fact that it's history, and we're looking back with knowledge of how things turned out and a fuller picture of the different parties and their intentions, leaves elusive that contemporaneous confusion that often describes "why" for participants much better.

[darkerside]

It's rare that I wish I had multiple upvotes to give, but this is one of those times. I'm just commenting to raise the visibility of a comment that reads so simply that I feel it could be easily overlooked, and yet says something so profound.

[ethbr0]

We've all just lived through such a moment in ~March 2020, so it probably rings truer than it would otherwise.

[darkerside]

A colleague once grew vociferously angry when I disagreed with his claim that we were lucky to be alive now, and not at say the beginning of the 20th century, living through pandemics and multiple world wars. You stated my point more eloquently than I was able to at the time.