Darryl Cooper
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 3 Aug
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the central and primary, certainly foreign policy, but even with a lot of domestic policies, mission of the US government and the sort of Western European NATO system in general.
It's a central focus of that, which is very strange when you think about it until you realize that we're
We're living in the aftermath of Nuremberg.
We're living in the aftermath of the Second World War.
And we're probably coming up to the end of that cycle right now.
I think that we're reaching the point where everybody who was around back then is gone.
People who remember it directly and who have the real enthusiasm for it that was born out of direct experience is probably fading away.
That seems to be the historical cycle every 80 to 100 years, you know?
things blow up again and the crisis and trauma of that explosion sort of shapes the four generations that are alive during that period.
You were either a young man who had to deal with it, you were a kid who watched your father deal with it, you were an old man who had, and so as people go through the rest of their lives and they mature into other stages of life, they carry that with them.
And it really shapes who people are for 80 to 100 years or so.
And, um, the second world war, at least the myth of the second world war.
Um, and by myth, I don't mean, you know, that it's a lie.
That's something that didn't happen, but, you know, something that has taken shape in the, in the cultural consciousness, you know, in, in, in a, in a way that, that, um,
that explains to people why things are the way they are, why power arrangements that exist now are necessary.
And legitimate, right.
It underlies the legitimacy, exactly.
And, you know, I think I said this on the episode that we had that got us in so much trouble, but...
You said nothing wrong about your version.
Yeah, it was an interesting experience for sure.
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