#Robespierre defenestrates! Egypt campaign left to its fates!

[21st-century-minutiae]

"We Didn't Start the Fire" is a famous twentieth century "list" song by musician Billy Joel. The entire song is essentially a list of headlines in general chronological order without elaboration representing newsworthy events (usually crises) that occurred in BIlly Joel's lifetime. It's refrain explains, metaphorically, that history and stressful situations are always happening and have always been happening, so the idea that the current time is unprecedented is misinformed. The song agrees that there is a "Fire" (some chaotic crisis) going on, but it is not new, and has always been "burning" from the start of history.

The concept that the world is only now just falling apart is a common, myopic perception, that is often related to how children are unaware of newsworthy events so, when people grow older, they conflate their growing awareness with the world getting worse. This compounds with a mythological nostalgia for an imaginary past, which, under any minute observation, would be shown to be just as chaotic and uncertain.

Denizens of the early twenty-first century would likely be aware of "We Didn't Start the Fire." They are less likely to know the lyrics (which are rapid fire and unrelated to each other), and are unlikely to know what each headline event refers to, as decades have passed since they dominated the news cycle. It would be relatively easy to slot in a 'fake' headline in that way, as people would just understand it to be a 'headline' without needing to know the context.

if i was billy joel making we didn't start the fire I'd throw in one where it's unclear what it's referring to like I'd just say 'billiards chaos' somewhere in the middle of the 60s and people would be like i guess there was a big drama in the professional 8 ball world then or something??