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On this day, we celebrate the Romani people and acknowledge the hardships and discrimination they face from other Europeans, from omission of their historical hardships, such as being victims of the Holocaust, to being excluded and discriminated against in the job market, we express our solidarity with them in the face of hate and societal repression. 💙💚

Paul Schroeder offers essentially two theories for the origin of WWI. 1) early modern Europe was violent for basic offensive realism reasons, but after the disasters of the Napoleonic Wars, exhausted monarchs learned the lesson that war is hell and agreed to try to keep the peace of 1815 (at least within Europe). A new culture of diplomacy followed, where geopolitical tensions were worked out proactively, and often multilaterally, so that the conditions for general war didn’t explode. But a few generations went by, and that extremely fragile, hard-won peace culture receded into the background along with the memories and experiences that justified it to elites. In the later part of the century, a new kind of aggressive winner-take-all masculinity emerged at the top (Perry Anderson adds: in the context of winner-take-all monopoly capitalism and imperialism beyond Europe’s borders; Arno Mayer agrees: Nietzsche, Darwin, Futurism all index this new worldview and self-conception). The idea that elites must cooperate to prevent full-scale war, which had come into being a century earlier, just melted away. Thus they could walk to war with ‘eyes wide shut.’ They knew what would happen, but unlike their fathers and grandfathers the international system didn’t possess the common knowledge that they needed to cooperate to stop it. Conflict as a way of life appeared inevitable. 2) the security architecture worked out after 1815 never took care of the Balkans, it was an open question how to keep the peace there that was worked out on an ad hoc basis for a century in a way which depended on the Austro-Hungarian empire balancing Russia. That equilibrium of forces became less and less stable as Austria-Hungary declined under Franz Joseph I (reigned way too long, 1848-1916; the guy who was gonna modernize the empire and reset equilibrium? Franz Ferdinand. Alas) and Russia took off under Witte. That hole in the European security architecture grew big enough to drive WWI through, and the elites went along for the ride with their ‘eyes wide shut.’

This is the difference between lettering, and lettering with a designer's eye. A character is waking up after nearly drowning. The top balloon is okay. It gets the job done. But the bottom balloon really SELLS the watery lungs.

Sabrina Carpenter for Perfect Magazine, 2026

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