@b870d4c8 Good point! 
What’s hopeful, in a way, is what happened the decades after.  Colonised troops returned home after seeing their European masters being less than invincible, applying the idea of nationalism to their own nation and fighting for their freedom. We saw the rise of labour and leftist rights. Women finally were getting democratic rights! 

I hope there is a similar light in this fascistic, dystopian tunnel. 

 @b870d4c8 My young friend (20y) texted to say that “Dumbledore is deeeead!”. Not sure what that makes her. 

 @b870d4c8 I highly recommend “The Human Web”, by the McNeills (father and son). It touches on the earliest civilisations, what created them and also how they sooner or later got caught up in the global, human web. http://www.publishersweekly.com/9780393051797