TGWMM chronicles the change in cultural and intellectual mores that occurred in the early 20C, as a result of the first World War it's the story of a civilization committing suicide, told through its literature
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he introduced the antebellum era in particular--an alien place for the 20C reader--before contrasting it with what came after its ideas died at Verdun and the Somme and Passchendaele
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while of course I mention it for No Particular Reason it may be relevant in a way similar to Class, but at scale and over time civilizations sometimes die quickly rather than fading away saeculum is important. real
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everything you knew when you were young is fading from memory my child will be born soon and she will never know the world before 9/11, nor even before Covid
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i don't know that there are any action items here. remember that the past is a strange world and some day we will be Past. memento mori, but for everything that you have known and grown to love. this too shall pass
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postscript. Tolkein fought in WWI and lost many of his friends. he conceptualized much of the story of middle earth and the elegiac theme of the Marring of Arda during the war while his friends died and he mouldered in a hospital makes u think
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Great War is terrific; to me his most important will always be his poetic form one
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