Expect people are going to talk about this like they do some of the madder scenes from the World Wars. Can you imagine what it would have been like in the siege of Leningrad? Fighting in the mud fields of Paschendale? It's funny--you read these stories . . .
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I don't know the full history of this time that our grandchildren will learn in schools, but they'll probably see video--maybe in high school--of hospitals melting down, dying people spilling out into the hallways on gurneys or towels, photos of whatever we do with the corpses
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I expect they'll watch it and be horrified for that instant, and then close their books and move on to math class, mostly unperturbed. Maybe some will dwell on it. I have sometimes--Timothy Snyder's _Bloodlands_ ruined me for a good week. But
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I don't think I understood until recently what it was like to live in a time of horrors. I'm still not sure I do but I'm afraid we're all about to find out. Twitter is going to be a different place in two weeks, I think. Tell your family you love them.
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I am now reading this in Dan Carlin's voice.
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entirely appropriate tbh
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