I don't think there's any deep psychological reason. It isn't comparable, say, to America's involvement with Vietnam and the emotional scars that that has left behind. A much more cogent way of looking at it is that the British have suddenly realized that they have their own equivalent of the perennial western. We have an immense, extremely colorful, diverse history of the empire, and I think people are just beginning to realize that there are jolly good stories there for the telling.
NOT A BOOKSomehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses.
Tom HiddlestonTags: history deep-blue-sea
Skillnaden i syn kan inte tillskrivas enbart geografiskt läge och industrialiseringsnivå. Hur kommer det sig att svenskar i gemen känner närmare släktskap med människor från Ungern och Tjeckien/Slovakien än med exempelvis bulgarer? Jag tror att svaret står att finna i vår historieskrivning. Vår begränsade värld. Den värld som det förmedlas kunskaper om på historielektioner i skolan. I den ingår hela det mellaneuropeiska spektrumet. Vi har läst om kejsardömen som Österrike-Ungern. Vi har läst om franska revolutionen. Vi känner till diskussioner kring antikens Rom och Aten. Inte särskilt många svenskar har någon uppfattning om vad som hänt i historien i Bulgarien och Rumänien. Med detta menar jag att vi är inprogrammerade på vissa geografiska områden. Andra har uteslutits. De har hamnat utanför det som jag, lite gammaldags kanhända, kan kalla vår egen kultursfär. Och det som ligger utanför i de flesta avseenden. Inte bara så att de som resmål lockar mindre, utan också en viss misstro mot produkter och ibland också mot människor som kommer därifrån. Vi saknar på något sätt en mall efter vilken vi skulle kunna identifiera oss med de människor vars omständigheter vi känner sämre till.
Gillis HerlitzTags: history cultural-differences sweden
Hitler is the rare individual who really did make history - specifically he made it worse.
John GreenĐặc điểm lớn nhất của xứ sở này là nhược tiểu. Đây là một cô gái đồng trinh bị nền văn minh Trung Hoa cưỡng hiếp. Cô gái ấy vừa thích thú, vừa nhục nhã, vừa căm thù nó. Vua Gia Long hiểu điều ấy và đấy là nỗi cay đắng lớn nhất mà ông cùng cộng đồng phải chịu đựng. Nguyễn Du thì khác, ông không hiểu điều ấy. Nguyễn Du là con của cô gái đồng trinh kia, dòng máu chứa đầy điển tích của tên đàn ông khốn nạn đã cưỡng hiếp mẹ mình.
Nguyễn Huy ThiệpTags: history
To understand how that astounding moral blindness was possible, it is helpful to think of the workers of an armament plant who rejoice in the 'stay of execution' of their factory thanks to big new orders, while at the same time honestly bewailing the massacres visited upon each other by Ethiopians and Eritreans; or to think how it is possible that the 'fall in commodity prices' may be universally welcomed as good news while 'starvation of African children' is equally universally, and sincerely, lamented.
Zygmunt BaumanTags: history holocaust sociology
I've always felt that distant train whistles heard in the dead of night are the universe's way of letting us know the best days are neither ahead nor behind us...they're happening right now, cradled in the palms of our hands. But that doesn't change the fact that the whiskey, weed, and romance eventually runs out and the night will soon turn to day.
Dave MatthesTags: innocence love music history romance death moon night whiskey booze daydreaming trains weed whistles
Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of the dying to the young, so print and commerce and a thousand ways of communication may bind the civilizations together, and preserve for future cultures all that is of value for them in our own. Let us, before we die, gather up our heritage, and offer it to our children.
Will DurantTags: history philosophy civilization
A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths.
Will DurantTags: history civilization philisophy
... history is forever unfinished, forever in process; endless because our needs are endless.
David MaloufTags: history
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