{"id":92255,"date":"2025-02-20T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=92255"},"modified":"2025-02-19T09:56:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T14:56:50","slug":"qotd-those-memorable-quotes-from-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/02\/20\/qotd-those-memorable-quotes-from-history\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Those memorable quotes from history"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>And this is where my own personal mental health conflicts with my professional obligations. This is historically significant, of course. There aren&#8217;t too many times when you can identify big Historical Inflection Points as they&#8217;re happening, but this is definitely one of them. And I&#8217;ve always wondered how it felt, watching the boys march off in 1914 or 1861, or watching Hitler walk into the <em>Reichstag<\/em>, or seeing Lenin &#8230; well, you get the point.<\/p>\n<p>I still don&#8217;t know how those people felt, but let me do the Robot Historians of 2334 a solid. In this particular case, guys: It feels stupid. Really, really stupid. Any sane person, watching this, can only marvel at how fucking fake and gay it all is. I wish I could say something more quotable about it (that&#8217;s a dirty trick of the History biz, by the way \u2014 often the quotes you see are quoted just because some crank had a good turn of phrase. The other sadly common reason is &#8220;because the quoted person&#8217;s letters are the only ones with handwriting you can read&#8221;). But I can&#8217;t, so &#8230; there it is.<\/p>\n<p>Severian, <a href=\"https:\/\/foundingquestions.wordpress.com\/2024\/11\/05\/we-hold-erection-for-king-3\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;We Hold Erection For King!&#8221;, <em>Founding Questions<\/em><\/a>, 2024-11-05.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And this is where my own personal mental health conflicts with my professional obligations. This is historically significant, of course. There aren&#8217;t too many times when you can identify big Historical Inflection Points as they&#8217;re happening, but this is definitely one of them. And I&#8217;ve always wondered how it felt, watching the boys march off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,7,57,41],"tags":[1037,1490,1462],"class_list":["post-92255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-donaldtrump","tag-historiography","tag-severian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-nZZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94238,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92255\/revisions\/94238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}