i'm starting to get some serious pre-WWI vibes from our egregore zeitgeist. what is it about new centuries, do they not really get going until everyone picks a side and decides that mass hysteria and mass murder are just the thing to get the blood flowing? (in both senses)
how many pre-WWI intellectuals, artists, journalists etc thought …
i'm starting to get some serious pre-WWI vibes from our egregore zeitgeist. what is it about new centuries, do they not really get going until everyone picks a side and decides that mass hysteria and mass murder are just the thing to get the blood flowing? (in both senses)
how many pre-WWI intellectuals, artists, journalists etc thought a nice, quick and easy war would provide glory and "meaning" and re-energize their societies with all that rich martial anger and energy? it seems that humans are so desperate to attach themselves to a historical cause (what Ernest Becker called an "immortality project") that they'd rather watch the world burn than face their own ultimate irrelevance.
or maybe this is just how new worlds are born, atop a mountain of skulls and bones from the previous world?
i'm starting to get some serious pre-WWI vibes from our egregore zeitgeist. what is it about new centuries, do they not really get going until everyone picks a side and decides that mass hysteria and mass murder are just the thing to get the blood flowing? (in both senses)
how many pre-WWI intellectuals, artists, journalists etc thought a nice, quick and easy war would provide glory and "meaning" and re-energize their societies with all that rich martial anger and energy? it seems that humans are so desperate to attach themselves to a historical cause (what Ernest Becker called an "immortality project") that they'd rather watch the world burn than face their own ultimate irrelevance.
or maybe this is just how new worlds are born, atop a mountain of skulls and bones from the previous world?
The splash image for HWFO is a pile of LEGO bodies for a reason.