Thursday, January 8, 2009
In Tony Judt's article "What have We Learned, If Anything?", he explains that, though the 20th century was a revolutionary one, filled with both successes and disasters on far grander scales than ever before, it seems that the world has begun to forget the lessons they taught. As the World moved into the 21st century, Judt argues that it did so with a feeling that the past was behind it, and the world ahead was a new one entirely. Such attitudes have made the first decade of this new millennium chaotic and unwieldy.
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