The Good War
This is a super good look at the ways in which nostalgia for World War II was used to then justify and promote the war on terror post 9/11. It led me to think about the late 90s and how it was the first time there wasn’t a uniting “evil” that all Americans agreed is bad and should be fought (think the cold war and the Soviet Union). And the war on terror hasn’t united us, if anything it’s fractured us even more in many ways. And that led me to wonder what could unite people, what can be the common good that we all agree on? Note: I’m not saying that any past era was perfect, but I do wonder about the different underlying unifying themes of past eras.