[Mrs. Don-o]

I do believe that WWI was the beginning of the end of civilization. A true historic turning point. I don't think Europe has recovered, or will ever recover. On every level --- political, social, physical, emotional, cultural, spiritual --- it was smashed. WWII came roaring on its heels like an opportunistic disease taking down an already wretched, weakened sufferer.

Even the post -WWII recovery was blighted with signs of moral and spiritual death.

And that is still with us, with a vengeance.

[Jeff Chandler]

Bears repeating:

I do believe that WWI was the beginning of the end of civilization. A true historic turning point. I don’t think Europe has recovered, or will ever recover. On every level -— political, social, physical, emotional, cultural, spiritual -— it was smashed. WWII came roaring on its heels like an opportunistic disease taking down an already wretched, weakened sufferer.
Even the post -WWII recovery was blighted with signs of moral and spiritual death.

And that is still with us, with a vengeance.

[DuncanWaring]

What else would you expect from a war that killed, on average, nearly ten-thousand men a day, seven days a week, for over four years?

Countless others greivously maimed.

And a year later, Rudyard Kipling wrote “Gods of the Copybook Headings”, predicting with great accuracy the events of the next century.

[dfwgator]

I do believe that WWI was the beginning of the end of civilization.

Auschwitz was the final straw.

[The_Media_never_lie]

I do believe that WWI was the beginning of the end of civilization. A true historic turning point. I don't think Europe has recovered, or will ever recover. On every level --- political, social, physical, emotional, cultural, spiritual --- it was smashed. WWII came roaring on its heels like an opportunistic disease taking down an already wretched, weakened sufferer.

Even the post -WWII recovery was blighted with signs of moral and spiritual death.

And that is still with us, with a vengeance.

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Yep. Exactly.