I wish I could capture into words the world view when this song was written comp

I wish I could capture into words the world view when this song was written compared to the world view today.

—“

There is no pain you are receding

A distant ship’s smoke on the horizon

You are only coming through in waves

Your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re saying

“–

We lived in a civilizational luxury, at the cost of continuous civilizational warfare. We were dragging mankind out of the dark. But in doing it paid too high a price.

The collapse of communism was good for mankind.

The collapse of the russian empire, rather than its conversion into a conservative version of european civilization on the eastern european model is the great catastrophe of the second half of the twentieth century.

If you had told me that a decade ago I would have disagreed.