There Once Was an Empire
novum.substack.com
Over a century ago, Austria-Hungary collapsed and a generation of writers wrote about what it was like to have your whole world melt away.
  • The_other_fish@aussie.zone
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    11 months ago

    Great read, thanks!

    Also, I don’t think I’ve ever encountered words that resonated with me so well:

    “Things are grim—both in the world at large, and for us as individuals. We all overestimated the world: even me, an absolute pessimist. The world is very, very stupid, and bestial. There are more brains in a cowshed. Everything: humanity, civilization, Europe, even Catholicism: the cowshed is cleverer.”