Magical Thinking in the World War I Generation

Les Éparges, April 1915

I usually refrain from using graphic images in this Substack, but I am breaking that rule now because it is important. We live in an increasingly fractured reality of media silos in which a rising generation has been misled to believe “feelings matter more than facts.” The last time this happened at scale, the result is what you see in the photo.

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