Themes for our times
Oct. 13th, 2020 12:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hypatia_66It looks like we in the North of England might be going into lockdown again soon. It won't make any difference to me, but I'm so sorry for the young.
Are they seeing their future lost in the terminal decline of the Western world?
Prophetic words from the past:
"This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper"
[Why? Because:]
"Day after day
Alone on a hill
The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still
But nobody wants to know him
They can see that he's just a fool"
...
[From respectively: T.S. Eliot: The hollow men; and The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour.]
Are they seeing their future lost in the terminal decline of the Western world?
Prophetic words from the past:
"This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper"
[Why? Because:]
"Day after day
Alone on a hill
The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still
But nobody wants to know him
They can see that he's just a fool"
...
[From respectively: T.S. Eliot: The hollow men; and The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour.]
