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It's easy to look back at previous generations and laugh at how dumb they were.

To us, they look ignorant, naive, or just plain primitive.

Medieval Europeans thought tomatoes were poisonous.

When the ancient Aztecs experienced a drought, they'd sacrifice some kids to convince the gods to send some rain.

In the early 1800s, people thought that riding on one of those locomotives might make you insane.

After all, the human brain was never designed to handle speeds

greater than a galloping horse. Child labor. At the beginning of America's Industrial Revolution,

it was super normal for kids under the age of 10 to work 60 hours a week in filthy factories

filled with dangerous machinery. And of course, slavery.

For several hundred years, lots of Americans thought it was totally okay to own other people.

And then when that was outlawed, it was totally normal to memorialize or even celebrate those

people who fought and died for the right to own other people.

What dumbasses they were, we think.

If we were alive then, we would have been different.

I don't know.

Would we?

Have you ever freaked out after discovering an embarrassing photo of yourself on the internet?

That happened to me a few years ago.

This is how it all went down.

For some reason, I decided to look through all my tagged photos on Facebook.

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