Talk to a clear 107 year old today. You can hear about the adolescents of Great Repression, or, if you’re lucky, you can hear about the jazz era where you can see through the eyes of a child. Although it is not a common experience to live deeply in the age of smartphones, shaped by the age of radio, perhaps Michael Fitzpatrick has undergone even greater civilizational transformation. Born in Ireland in 1858, he sat there The above interview It was broadcast on television 107 years later in 1965. The device was on the way to saturate Western society at the time, as cars already had, but humanity took it to the jet liner sky, and even the stars of rocket ships.
The contrast between Fitzpatrick was born with the world he finally found himself in is Starker because he is the son of the land. A lifelong farmer, he can respond honestly when asked to name the biggest change he saw: “machine.”
Even in the Irish countryside, his thick dialect must have been extinct by now, so not all of his answers come across that clearly. Luckily, this video comes with subtitles, making it easier to understand what he has to say about the “reaper” and the appearance of his memory. Bodice’s eviction in the 18th and 18thwhen Mele breaks out in the attempt by a local landlord to drive away poor tenants.
Although we can come up with events that are vaguely similar to the eviction of the bodice of modern world, in essence they belong to a long history of becoming human beings to engage in farming or overseeing it. The Industrial Revolution did not occur at the same pace at once. In fact, Fitzpatrick lived the first part of his life in practically pre-industrial reality. In other words, he experienced the arrival of the civilization in which we were all born. Regarding us at a certain age today, we can expect to be asked 6-70 years.
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Based in Seoul Colin marshall Write and broadcasting stationTS about cities, languages, and culture. His projects include the Substack Newsletter Books about cities And the book The Stateless City: Walking through 21st century Los Angeles. Follow him on social networks previously known as Twitter @colinmarshall.
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