All the Angels I Know Put Concrete in My Veins.

Have I been the only one that noticed a back-clash against the Church of Europe after WWI? I noticed this when I was working on the project and looking at the thoughts of Nietzsche and Freud. Both have a negative view of the Church. I was wondering where these anti-church views originated from. It could be that as science advanced religion started to become obsolete like with Darwin. Or it could have been from the extreme tragedy that was WW1. But the views was a common one that god/religion is now dead after WW1. What killed God? 

I had put away my labour, and my leisure too, for his civility.

I think that any complex government created purely in theory among many wise philosophers will work, in theory. But I think the problem with theory arises when it is attempted to be but into practice. Humans tend to give other humans the benefit of the doubt. The Communist Manifesto is a great example of this. The book creates a great example of a perfect sounding theory, but when attempted to be put into use it starts to crumble. But it is about the book and not the use of it, so I think the book spent a little to much time telling how to create a perfect utopia but never tells how to fix it when it starts to crumble due to human greed. I think that if the philosophers focused on both sides of ideal government, what is ideal and how to keep it ideal, the book would of helped governments that tried to implemented communist governments from getting corrupt as quickly.     

Not all who wander are lost

The lost generation claim power from being a people who are lost. They claim that the great tragedy that was WW1 made them loss faith. "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him." During the time the people lost faith both politically and spiritually. This period in time shows a time where people rebelled against the culture before the war and started to try and create there own way of life. This is America is called the roaring twenties. By creating there own way of life and leaving the old way behind, I believe that they were not lost per-say but wandering and creating they own culture.

The Best Part of Nothing

The idea I wondered about while reading the last part of the reading was the Russian Tsar. Why did the Tsar want the power to lead the nation as a sole supreme power so badly. The Tsar was willing to risk public outcry and rebellions just to stay in complete power. In order to keep most subjects in Russia happy he need only to listen to the Duma everyone now and them, but instead he ignored all ideas that they purposed. When the people did start rebelling, the Tsar set in troops and police to stop the riots by threat of force or force.
I think the time may have had an effect on the Tsar. Every time he tried to develop international diplomacy it was seen as a sign of weakness. This could led the Tsar to not want to show any more weakness by listening to the people.

Finally a Study of Battle

What surprised me most during this chapter of reading was that for once we studied the struggle itself. I do not care what rights women now have because of the war, or how minorities finally have an equal chance at getting a job. Well, yes, I do care and think that it is important to know but learning about minorities but not the war itself  three years in a row can get tiresome. I find it interesting that we will spend approximately 33 days talking about the causes of the war and then spend two, maybe three if we are lucky, days talking about the war itself. It seems to me that war itself somehow gets lost in the goal of learning the cause of war and the affects of the war. I think the interesting part of this reading was that for once we looked at battles, leaders, and the soldiers themselves. I think a greater look into the war would allow for a greater level of understanding of history then the current way of learning about the tension that caused the war but then saying war happened and then moving on to the time between the wars.