Roadkill,
The era may have been the travail of birth into the modern world. Phoenix rising from the ashes of the ancient system of dirt farming, horse and wagon, regional economies, two-rut dusty roads, steam power, Mom & Pop stores, politicians' stump campaigns.
Hitler brought modern politics, modern propoganda, a systematic explantion of manipulation of the public mind by strategy, display, and public broadcast. The world saw the culmination of applied neo-science to the military, air force, navy, and human breeding. The creation of paved interstate road system for the movement of troops allowed astonishing rapidity in agression. And national economies.
It was not an aberration of an era, but the beginning of our day.
[quote]The applause of listening senates to command,
The threats of pain and ruin to despise,
To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land,
And read their history in a nation's eyes.
Their lot forbade; nor circumscribed alone
Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined;
Forbade to wade through slaughter to the throne,
And shut the gates of mercy on mankind,
The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide,
To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,
Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride
With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Thomas Gray <hr></blockquote>
[quote] kinda like looking at a corpse. You don't really want to stare but you have to look, then realize people behind are wondering why you are still standing in front of the casket. <hr></blockquote>
[quote]Can storied urn or animated bust
Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?
Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust,
Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of
Death?
Thomas Gray <hr></blockquote>
