2 Responses to More of the Same

1. philipcassell says:

   June 11, 2022 at 1:14 am

   Reading Colm Toibin’s excellent historical novel, The Magician, which follows the life of Thomas Mann, it is interesting how he drastically under-rates the threat posed by Hitler’s emergence, even while viewing developments from the vantage point of Munich.
   Perhaps a book has already been written about this phenomenon; however, the catastrophes of the last century or so appear to have been – notwithstanding a few notable outliers – ‘under-predicted’ to a very significant extent.
   And this under-predicting is itself a contributor to the unfolding of the shocking events.

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2. philipcassell says:

   June 10, 2022 at 10:24 pm

   Overstates? What will the US be like if Trump or his avatar wins in November 2024?

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