Follies Of 1943
May. 13th, 2022 08:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo Welcome to 1943!
Not my words, but something I got off Lee Carroll.
And not his words either, but something someone said to him in a conversation about Ukraine...
Welcome to 1943.
You can hear the resignation, the verbal shrug, the despair that's not so deep it can't rise to the saving grace of a witticism....
Because here we go again. Same old ideologies, same old ambitions. Some wars are fuelled by new ideas- for instance the revolutionary wars of the French Republic- and some- like this one- by very old ones- by ideologies and ambitions that have had to be dragged from their graves. "If burning down my neighbour's house was good enough for my great granddaddy it's good enough for me."
Welcome to 1943.
But it ain't 1943- it's a whole lifetime later- and we're better than this!
Not my words, but something I got off Lee Carroll.
And not his words either, but something someone said to him in a conversation about Ukraine...
Welcome to 1943.
You can hear the resignation, the verbal shrug, the despair that's not so deep it can't rise to the saving grace of a witticism....
Because here we go again. Same old ideologies, same old ambitions. Some wars are fuelled by new ideas- for instance the revolutionary wars of the French Republic- and some- like this one- by very old ones- by ideologies and ambitions that have had to be dragged from their graves. "If burning down my neighbour's house was good enough for my great granddaddy it's good enough for me."
Welcome to 1943.
But it ain't 1943- it's a whole lifetime later- and we're better than this!
