Sometimes I like to compare and contrast the abstract. Like the difference between what someone would call a “drastic” injury today to an injury inflicted in the middle ages. How people say they can’t go to school because they have a stomach ache, verses having been cleaved with an axe, but still going to war with broken bones.

How to the naked ear there are much more types of music today than during the Romantic eras.

But most importantly, how much more awesome it was to be raised in the 1980’s instead of the 1880’s.

Although I do appreciate 1884 for the first copy of the Oxford dictionary, allowing people to finally call bullshit on a scrabble opponent’s “migdula” instead of the correct “amygdala”, it’s hard to out trump 1984. I don’t want to work in fucken factory under child labor, I wanna tool around on my roller racer and have water gun fights.  In 1884 they started construction on Statue of Liberty, but in 1984, Muppets took Manhattan. Shit, 1984 was also the year the Michael Jackson finally started to become a weirdo after his hair lit up like the 4th of July at a Pepsi shoot.