and I think about how, before the wars, europe was covered in ruins of long forgotten (by the people living around them) civilizations
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I THINK ABOUT THIS ALL THE TIME. i cannot stop thinking about this. i love thinking about this. I am fascinated by what this has done to the european psyche.
i have a million half-baked theories about how this influenced colonialism and racism and nationalism but also communism (as per marx) and (the good parts of) renaissance thought, and modern european leftism broadly. i hate europe as a general, only somewhat ironic, rule but also this is the thing that will one day motivate me to visit europe
yeah whenever i first heard it it blew my mind. would we have hobbits and dwarves were there not completely overgrown villages with only half of a door visible?
elves, without so many marble shrines filled with pictures and statues of ghostly white humans (because the paint's gone but marble remains)?
it's mindblowing to think of what that would do to an entire continent+ of people and the cultures that sprung up within them. it's mindblowing!!!