HorthyMiklosKatonaja
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HorthyMiklosKatonaja
3d ago
World War 1+2 in a single package, a grinding forever war that ran for decades and killed over a billion people?
That reminded me a lot of the civilization-altering (and sometimes civilization-ending) mega-wars in Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men and Darkness and Light.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
3d ago
It was a thing in the fifties too. The Organization Man, the Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.
For about 15-20 years after the war there was this feeling in the US zeitgeist that the individual was being, I don't know, deprecated? Pushed out? and replaced with the conformist "mass-man."
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
7d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlem_Royal_Hospital#Public_visiting
It was a big thing during the early- and mid-eighteenth century.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
7d ago
I recall a line from a Jonathan Edwards sermon to the effect that one of the greatest pleasures saved souls enjoy in Heaven is watching the sufferings of the damned in Hell.
This was the same era when a popular middle-class pastime was going to the insane asylum to laugh at the antics of the lunatics.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
14d ago
And would it be okay to name a starship the USS Corpus Christi?
Heh.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
16d ago
All the fuss lately about "Oath Keepers" served to remind me that the Promise Keepers used to be in the news a lot but I hadn't seen bugger-all about them in years.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
16d ago
Yes, I see "Epstein files" and my eyes immediately glaze over.
Who nowadays remembers the great scandal of 1977, "Koreagate"?? Took over all the front pages for weeks.
And if you burn poison ivy, that's a mistake you won't forget.
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