Odysseus doesn't even escape, he is killed when Telegonus (his son by Circe) arrives at Ithaca and he charges out at his son in a rage. The effects of the Trojan War pass down generations (which also supports your argument!).
By the 60s US was well en route to an Iran like double regime. You have CIA and friends drugging random Americans for pseudoscience, FBI wiretapping everyone who look funny, race tension over the roof, and Pentagon sending men to their deaths for a war nobody understands.
It was the defeat from Vietnam that killed the American deep state.
Odysseus doesn't even escape, he is killed when Telegonus (his son by Circe) arrives at Ithaca and he charges out at his son in a rage. The effects of the Trojan War pass down generations (which also supports your argument!).
Live by the sword, die by the sword. Foreign adventures and their consequences.
Hell, Homer even invented the first slasher film
That's what eternal GWOT had done to American society.
It had done to Russian society with Chechnya
It had done to Iranian society with Syria
It had done to Pakistani society with Afghanistan
The only way out sometimes seemed to be... Losing foreign wars.
Losing Vietnam did more good for American democracy than everything between 1945-1968 combined
Now that's a super interesting perspective -- can you elaborate more on that last sentence?
By the 60s US was well en route to an Iran like double regime. You have CIA and friends drugging random Americans for pseudoscience, FBI wiretapping everyone who look funny, race tension over the roof, and Pentagon sending men to their deaths for a war nobody understands.
It was the defeat from Vietnam that killed the American deep state.