01-15-2021, 02:52 AM
One marker of a Crisis Era is lasting effects upon the culture. Think of the seemingly innocuous children's rhyme:
Ring around the rosies
Pocket full of posies
Ah-choo! Ah-choo!
All fall down!
The "ring" was a reddish rash, one of the first signs of plague.
The pocket full of posies was the desperate but ineffective herbal 'cures'
Ah-choo! Ah-choo! was of course sneezing.
All fall down -- people die.
Oddly this was not published until 1881, and it was first sung to its existing tune in 1795.
Ring around the rosies
Pocket full of posies
Ah-choo! Ah-choo!
All fall down!
The "ring" was a reddish rash, one of the first signs of plague.
The pocket full of posies was the desperate but ineffective herbal 'cures'
Ah-choo! Ah-choo! was of course sneezing.
All fall down -- people die.
Oddly this was not published until 1881, and it was first sung to its existing tune in 1795.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.