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Teaching seems like a frustrating job

Wife used to be a teacher. Key word USED to.

Had a student who regularly threatened to kill her and destroyed her classroom at least twice a week. She would have to clear all the students into the hall while he went on a rampage in there.

The AP would just come down and give him video games to "calm him down". Guess who learned to freak out for rewards?

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How come decades in the 1900s look fairly well differentiated but from like 2004 on feels like a giant run on?

Tons of reasons.

  1. You lived through them. There is a continuity in your mind, rather than a dissociated aesthetic.
  2. Survivorship bias takes time. We think of bell bottoms for the 60's, even though there were many other pant styles. Over time, specific things become iconic of an era.
  3. The internet and mass media flattened and accelerated trends.