Well then.
That was the West, then.
However, do not look for anything very much anything like that, call it, for lack of a better term, and a single term hardly does it any justice, noblesse oblige, ever, ever again.
"...history, by itself, has no morality, no conscience, no sympathy, no redemption, no truth, no dignity, no understanding, no reason, no humor, no irrationality, no cynicism, no cruelty or kindness, no soul, no remorse or regret, no happiness but no sadness, no direction, no youth, no old age, no generations, no past, no future, no off button, no hurry or patience, no sense of time space or motion.
History, by itself, has no history, no past, no future."
History, by itself, has no history, no past, no future."
We can add to this list, the additional, perhaps sad, uncomforting but also untragic, observation, that history never, ever, really, truly, ever, repeats itself.
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