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Since Europe has again begun flirting with what George Washington called "entangling alliances," setting up allegiances and proxies that will bring a string of nations into a war if one is attacked, it is time to revisit our last experience with such things, "The War to End All Wars," WW1. Like most pro-democracy wars it was widely praised, but ended in heaps of bodies in ditches.
1. Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear: you must know what a White Feather was to understand how pathological modernity is.
2. Sturm by Ernst Junger: a cynical eye toward how under the guise of morality power moves to establish its permanence.
3. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie: on the periphery, in the details, a great deal is told in the aftermath.
4. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway: the past retold through what cannot be mentioned in the present.
5. Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline: dark psychological hallways emerge from the clouded consciousness of our war for imperial democracy.
6. August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: looking into the sea change that brought about war on multiple continents.
These should keep you looking forward to the crisis ahead as once again imperial democracy runs out of options and turns to war.
1. Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear: you must know what a White Feather was to understand how pathological modernity is.
2. Sturm by Ernst Junger: a cynical eye toward how under the guise of morality power moves to establish its permanence.
3. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie: on the periphery, in the details, a great deal is told in the aftermath.
4. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway: the past retold through what cannot be mentioned in the present.
5. Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline: dark psychological hallways emerge from the clouded consciousness of our war for imperial democracy.
6. August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: looking into the sea change that brought about war on multiple continents.
These should keep you looking forward to the crisis ahead as once again imperial democracy runs out of options and turns to war.
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