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12-10-21, 07:51 AM | #1 |
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The Blitz
Have you noticed how we are starting to get more references to the Blitz and the Blitz spirit? Are they trying to tell us something?
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/d...nson-zvfzd66td (pay site) Salient parts of her column here: https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2021/10/11/blitz-spirit/ According to Clare Foges (the columnist) Some Brits relish the thought of the cameraderie when we collectively suffer hardships. (I am not one, the winter of 78-79 was miserable). Iain Duncan-Smith had previously mentioned being bombed: https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2021/10/11...bombing-raids/ I think they should take down the inspirational poster from their walls, the one that says: "That which doesn't kill you, makes you stronger" (Freidrich Nietzsche)
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12-10-21, 09:15 AM | #2 |
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Re: The Blitz
Indeed, and replace it with 'patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.' And by that, I'm inferring Samuel Johnson's meaning of patriotism: the kind of blind flag-shagging that has become increasingly common over the past decade.
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