Politics and Culture

For those of you who started school after the formation of the Department of Education, Veterans Day was originally Armistice Day, solely dedicated to the memory of the first World War. I've often thought about moments that have changed history for good (Constantine converting to Christianity) and ill (Cancellation of Stargate Atlantis). Amongst the later category, World War I ranks high. Think about these consequences, besides the horror of the war itself:

Stargate Atlantis - The Complete First Season by Kill Hannah, Sean Beavan, Tim Palmer

1. WWI led to the formation of the Soviet Union. Communism has led directly to 100,000,000 deaths.
2. Hitler could not have risen without the allied-imposed humiliation that was the Paris Conference. Millions more deaths and the near-extermination of a God's chosen.
3. Woodrow Wilson, in the United States, used the war as an excuse to greatly increase the power of government, loosening the hounds of state propaganda and social engineering by "experts."
4. The demoralization of the West. This is a large, book-length subject by itself, but WWI caused Europeans to lose faith in its own institutions, especially religion, furthering the work of the previous century by Godless revolutionaries like Nietzsche and Marx and implicit or explicit civilization and tradition-haters, most of whom received the scorn of G.K. Chesterton in Heretics.

Heretics by Gilbert K. Chesterton
5. It's also why European art and music degenerated, according to the thesis that people who don't believe in anything or are cynical create only "anti" art, abstract and purposely ugly.