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

TehBamski@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 302 points –
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"Yes, they are allowed to be on the same bus as us. No, we don't call them that anymore"

"Bus? No we bulldozed hundreds of neighborhoods to build highways so now everyone has to have a car"

I knew that would be the obvious joke but it's not like that was unfathomable in the fifties. Desegregation was obviously where the world was headed and I'm sure everyone was expecting (or dreading) modern racial relations.