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The past is a foreign country

Thursday, September 22, 2022 6:57

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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

L. P. Hartley – The Go-Between (1953)

A commonly repeated observation on the reign of Queen Elizabeth II is her lifelong dedication to the role, a dedication she explicitly intended to pursue until the day she died. Born in 1926, her generation generally took life seriously. Perhaps it could be said that our late Queen’s generation was the last to take life seriously. The possibility is certainly worth a thought or two.

By 1926, a whole raft of frivolity was bubbling to the surface of the developed world, driven by technology and economic growth. Cinema, radio, recorded music, television, telephone, mass transport and mass communication all seem to have played a part in promoting mass frivolity.

World War II stamped all over that of course, but the frivolous phoenix did not take long to rise again. Only on this side of the Iron Curtain perhaps, but even that didn’t keep the entertainment business buried for long once normal life had resumed.

Entertainment has always been popular, but it is not a wild exaggeration to describe our previous UK prime minister as an entertainer. Which ought to be a little odd, but it isn’t. In a somewhat macabre sense even Joe Biden… perhaps not… but the thought is there.

If we don’t take life as seriously as previous generations, perhaps we don’t need to. As a general rule we could easily claim that entertainment is easy and taking life seriously less easy. As the good old slippery slope cliché reminds us, we do tend to go for easy over difficult even if easy has some obvious perils.

Entertainment is persuasive. Taking life seriously isn’t. Hence…

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