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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 24

      one more thing about Paul Fussell, while we're talking about _Class_ that book is a lot of fun, but I think _The Great War and Modern Memory_ might be more important

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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 24

      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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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 24

      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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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 24

      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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    5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 24

      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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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 24

      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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        1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 24

          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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        1. John Smith‏ @EpektasisJohn Feb 24
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          It is all preserved in the mind of God, and nothing good will ever perish

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        2. David Deutsch‏ @skore_de Feb 24
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          man, this hit different. There are so many things I'll have to explain to my daughters at one day, WW2 and 9/11 are def on that list. And then they'll go: hey what the fuck is that! And I'll be like: Yeah dude, couldn't even begin to say. And then we'll just share the silence

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        3. David Deutsch‏ @skore_de Feb 24
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          Very many times I drive them over an Autobahn and suddenly look around and realize that I put them into this little container of spurious safety to drive them through a landscape of complete and utter insanity that none of us will ever come even close to untangling.

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        2. Liminal Warmth  ❤ ( 📜, 📜)‏ @liminal_warmth Feb 24
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          fatalistic but perhaps optimistic?

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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 24
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          i think I mostly feel elegiac

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        1. Marc “Except You, You're All Right” Whipple‏ @WhippleMarc Feb 24
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          when you find out about proton decay, it becomes increasingly hard to plan for the future because there isn’t one maybe baby moonbot can fix it here, an ancient prophecy for them to fulfillpic.twitter.com/2onkc8bGzr

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