GummyNerds on Nostr: "Fear may be understood. But a curious and characteristic emotional weakness of ...
"Fear may be understood. But a curious and characteristic emotional weakness of Empire is:
"A complex of vaunting and fear.
"The vaunting is from what may be called that Titanic feeling. Many passengers on the doomed Titanic would not believe that a ship so big and grand could sink. So long as it was above water her listing deck seemed safer than a lifeboat on the open sea. So with the people of Empire."
"A complex of vaunting and fear.
"The vaunting is from what may be called that Titanic feeling. Many passengers on the doomed Titanic would not believe that a ship so big and grand could sink. So long as it was above water her listing deck seemed safer than a lifeboat on the open sea. So with the people of Empire."