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Happy Armistice Day
Happy Armistice Day.
It is 11:11:11.111 (give or take), 11/11/10, the day we celebrate the armistice of 11:00:00.000,11/11/18, which technically ended World War 1, a war that killed as many as 20 million people, resolved nothing, decimated Europe, and left the open wound that festered eventually into World War 2.
It is arguably the day that the old world, the world defined by the Congress of Vienna, died. In a way, it was the end of the pre-industrial world, and the beginning of a new time of troubles that lasted until the first, last, and only use of nuclear weapons in our history on the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
This was a war of a century ago. The century before it saw Napoleon. We've come a long way.
It is 11:11:11.111 (give or take), 11/11/10, the day we celebrate the armistice of 11:00:00.000,11/11/18, which technically ended World War 1, a war that killed as many as 20 million people, resolved nothing, decimated Europe, and left the open wound that festered eventually into World War 2.
It is arguably the day that the old world, the world defined by the Congress of Vienna, died. In a way, it was the end of the pre-industrial world, and the beginning of a new time of troubles that lasted until the first, last, and only use of nuclear weapons in our history on the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
This was a war of a century ago. The century before it saw Napoleon. We've come a long way.
Comments
It is right to remember it and understand it and also understand that it is inseparably a part of the second World War. I find that this War is sometimes overlooked as a fundamental part of world history, in the shadow of WWII, and we often ignore that the aftermath affected more than the physicality of the world, borders, landscapes, etc. - it changed ideas. I find it profound, especially the effect it had on art and technology.