WWII

[emma_in_dream]

And everything else continues to be enormously depressing. I realise I am only doing this to myself, but reading *Black Out* and *All Clear* has sent me off to reading WWII history which is pretty depressing, especially the stuff on the rise of Nazism which (Godwin award) is even more like our current circumstances than I had realised. I understood that the general outlines of the situation are similar – economic turmoil leads to a lurch to the right. I had not realised how precisely they matched. The appointing of Hitler to the Chancellorship with the expectation that his more seasoned right wing partners would pull him into line, perhaps some senior Republicans could read about how well that worked.


A ray of sunshine (but not). Reading about Dunkirk made me think what a good movie it would make. Unlike Pearl Harbour, it has a beginning, a middle and an end. And lo, one will be released in 2017.