If someone from the 1950s suddenly appeared, what would be the most difficult thing to explain about life today?

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How after World War 2 we didn't truly learn and still fight wars over racism, nationalism and other reasons that keep us from uniting.

How we managed to ruin the earth to a severe degree in just 50 years or so.

And video games.

And The Flintstones.

How after World War 2 we didn’t truly learn and still fight wars over racism, nationalism and other reasons that keep us from uniting.

I mean, we've been doing that for thousands of years. I feel like it would be more unexpected if we stopped.

True.

Just feels that after the deadliest conflict in history we would have learned so as not to repeat that insanity. But we didn't.

To be fair you’d have thought that after WW1 as well and then we literally just did it again

And families don't sit around the radio or TV to consume their entertainment, we all sit around the dinner table staring at our phones not talking to each other