Listening to The Rest is History’s new series on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and it’s as good as I hoped. Humanizes the guy, reveals the shitbirdery of his family and Hapsburg colleagues, and also explains why his assassination saved millions of birds.
/2 Now really looking forward to them covering the slow-motion car crash that is July 1914 which is an absolutely terrifying story of our inability to stop terrible things from happening
It's funny how, despite two World Wars, a much worse pandemic than COVID-19, the Great Depression, and god knows how many totalitarian atrocities, the world was still immensely better and nicer in 1950 than in 1900.
Barring a full nuclear missile launch, I'm very sure we'll see 2050 the same way.
Maybe 2070 but yes. Europe spent all of 1875-1945 indulging in reckless extreme (L-R) politics and paid a massive price for it, learned the virtues of moderation/cooperation and rebuilt their society. One of the problems of the US is that the US never went through anything that pulverizing.
Yes, but if you ask, why doesn't capital sacrifice in 1970 or 2005 and work together with labor to create a proper safety net, the Civil War is not relevant to that. We will saunter along without one until it becomes clear we have to build something like that up.
