"If not for culture, why are we fighting?"
This is what Churchill would have replied when he was asked, in the midst of World War II, to cut the budget devoted to the arts to support the war effort.
The replica is so beautiful that it could not but be apocryphal.
But when an apocryphal word phagocyte reality so much that it comes to embody it, it is because it carries within it a force of truth which sweeps away everything and resonates with an ever-living collective memory.
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Indeed, if in our representations, the First World War is seen and described as a meaningless butchery, the Second, for its part, is assimilated to an eschatological fight for freedom and humanism against enslavement and brutality, a fight for culture against barbarism.
The mystique created around this conflict is a call to courage and to reason where the main thing is not to survive, but to refuse to see humanity return to bestiality, to
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