As we digest the significance and implications of the midterms, and with it a massive blow to “political entertainment” in MAGA/GOP, we are likely in for a long period of reflection and reset. But another generation before ours faced similar circumstances and came to similar conclusions: the Wandervogel generation of the “Free German Youth”, who demanded the freedom to shape their nation into their own Romantic image. What can we learn from them, and perhaps apply to ourselves in this period of self-examination?
Tune in for this and many interesting tangents:
—Midterm assessment; failure of MAGA/GOP to be a serious party
—Returning to source of creativity, culture; rejection of “cheap patriotism”
—What was the Wandervogel, and what did they do?
—Mass industrialization and bureaucratization as catalyst
—DISAVOW: “Save yourself, flee the country!”
—The Wandervogel Generation and WW1
—Fraternity and friendship; youth, youth, springtime of beauty!
