{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "the underlying message of every post-apocalyptic story is that rebuilding civilization is really difficult so perhaps we should...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/177938684798/", "html": "<p><a href=\"https://argumate.tumblr.com/post/177938031434/the-underlying-message-of-every-post-apocalyptic\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">argumate</a>:</p><blockquote><p>the underlying message of every post-apocalyptic story is that rebuilding civilization is really difficult so perhaps we should save time and aggravation by not heedlessly destroying the one we already have.</p></blockquote><p>one of the more interesting things in recent grassroots American rhetoric is the return of pro-Union anti-Confederate sentiment</p><p>like that doesn\u2019t resemble any period since they stopped waving the bloody shirt so much as the run-up to the war</p><p>in explicit opposition to America\u2019s previous Dunning School \u201cthat was a bad idea on balance\u201d and \u201cWar of Brothers\u201d reunionist narratives as developed by people in the aftermath</p><p>this connects with recent drives to tear down war memorials and suppress historic flags and regionalist identities to make way for ascendant rivals which 90s post-Cold War Balkans/<a href=\"https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.powells.com%2Fbook%2F-9781504014892&amp;t=NmNmNjkyOWZkMTY4ZmNiMGQ3ODBmMWU0MGRhNjZlZjg5OWQ3MzVhNiw3ZDMxYjc4OTVkY2U2YjI2ZWExZTFlOTVmYjA4YWJmNDdkMzY2MTdk\" target=\"_blank\">Africa</a> lessons taught us was VERY bad but now I hear is VERY good</p>"}