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Good points. Indeed I use "myth" as inspirational story, not necessarily something personally connecting or even real, but for a myth to work on those without close personal experience, it has to be made internalised.

I won't hazard to make a general point about my generation, but at least will mention one counter-trend: my generation has a renewed attention for just those personal stories of their WWII-surviving grandparents that our parents didn't have. The stories told can be manifold, but the not-heard-before horrors survived by a close relative could be the part making the most impression. (At least it is for me.)

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Tue Feb 7th, 2006 at 05:25:38 AM EST
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Re: The Economist agrees with you (none / 0)
Well, I think we are similar ages, my point was about our nieces/nephews/children as it were. The grandparents who were in the war are getting scarcer, soon they will be gone.

When I was young, some 50% of movies made in the 20 years preceding my birth seemed to be war movies. I think this has changed also.

WW2 is not gone from our culture, but it is fading and changing. Anyway, perhaps this is a diary topic if I get time.

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Tue Feb 7th, 2006 at 07:16:20 AM EST
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Re: Fading away.... (none / 0)
Exactly the way I feel it...

The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)
by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Tue Feb 7th, 2006 at 07:23:32 AM EST
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WW2 is not gone from our culture, but it is fading and changing.

And that's sad, because, personally, I've always found WWII to be the most interesting event in history.  I love listening to my grandfather's stories from the South-Pacific.  ("Once a Marine, always a Marine," as our family always jokes.)  The battles of Britain and Stalingrad are two of my favorites -- the former being arguably the most critical battle of the war, as far as US involvement is concerned -- though I always have trouble finding decent books on the two.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Tue Feb 7th, 2006 at 02:28:29 PM EST
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