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"The Zoo Station" by David Downing. It's a novel set in pre-WW2 Germany. the hero is an English reporter living in Berlin. The author does a good job of covering both the problems of being a low level spy, and a guy who has to deal with a son and things like getting his clothes cleaned.
During the great turmoil of the early 1900s, as war broiled but did not burn my ancestor died of his alcoholism on Skid Row in LA. The truth of history is that it's 99 mundanity but with bright spots of activity in certain locations.
Rarely does history dwell on the individual, especially when you cover hundreds of years in a class. I will say that I was taught about the leading factors of WW2 far more than WW1. A lot of it dwelt on a people suffering from the weight of reparations stacked upon the general weight of losing a war. I don’t say this to justify either timeframes decline to fascism, but to draw a parallel.
In my opinion and personal experience the general population of the US has so much less power (purchasing and otherwise) and they’re mad. They want to be mad at something tangible and fascist direct it toward minorities.
We’re in an ever stranger situation than our predecessors, I think, for having all this information in our pockets instantly
Bingo. If humans were logical, having access to all this data would probably do more good than harm. Instead, people all flood into social media streams that show them they are correct to be racists, believe lies, or to care about nothing that truly matters.
I take it as a perspective-adjusting tool. Big stuff makes it into those textbooks and the people who lived through it did all the little day-to-day things as well as they could on the side. They made it -- some, anyway, but enough for us to be here today -- and now it's our turn to embrace the suck until we can hand that off to the next poor bastards.
Like, you have to figure out what to eat every day. WTH.
The kinds of things I was into always had a dude who was constantly hungry. That kinda makes it easy to relate to. No matter what crazy world ending shit was going on in the fiction, my dude still has to eat.
Someone definitively skipped the Trojan War alright.
Then maybe don't?