In Flander’s Fields

It’s now over 100 years since WWI.

We still haven’t digested it.

Some people think that the trauma of WWI is what set the West on the road to insanity. I used to think so, but it’s not that simple.

The path was laid. The war happened because the world was already saturated with hubris and progressivism, and partly the war happened because the idea of world-spanning empires that transcended nationality.

Oh, it was newspapers, and trains, and fast ships. It was conceiving of a w...