The Green & Pleasant Land tells a true story about the lives of working-class people who lived during a time of political and economic catastrophe during the decade leading up to WW2.
And yet despite your dad's words of warning, it's happening. Fascism is surging back thanks to all the Bill Moxons out there. People never learn, and the only thing that suffering and deprivation are a spur to are the wish to do it to someone else. Sorry to be so negative, but this is how I feel right now and what I am seeing and hearing from far too many, especially the middle-aged and elderly.
A great story, I always want to read more!
Thanks more coming Sunday
I often wonder what historians will write 100 years from now.
Your father could not have imagined consecutive world wars and the spread of Western democracies.
I can envision a myriad of medium-term climate, financial, and societal catastrophes, but I can't forsee the plot curves of the Trumpian era.
We're not returning to strong (if fallible) democracies, but there's far too much unrest for long-term authoritarian/kleptocratic rule.
What will be the black swan event of our times?
And yet despite your dad's words of warning, it's happening. Fascism is surging back thanks to all the Bill Moxons out there. People never learn, and the only thing that suffering and deprivation are a spur to are the wish to do it to someone else. Sorry to be so negative, but this is how I feel right now and what I am seeing and hearing from far too many, especially the middle-aged and elderly.