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I hate living in this timeline where everything is being questioned in this way. I miss when people could just have interests without some assholes making it political for some psychotic reason. Honestly, those who are the most eager to project extremist political motives into everything other people do should probably take a good hard look in the mirror.
People simping for imperial empires have historically been poltical with it. Mussolini Italy was big on ancient Rome. Greek Nazis always have been big on Ancient Greece. Look at the Washington Obelisk simping for pharaonic Egypt. Napoleons Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Neoclassical interpretation of roman architecture...
I am afraid the time you refer to never existed.
No no. I'm sure there have always been crazy assholes who like things that normal people also like. The difference from the time I'm talking about and now is that the fringe psychos didn't get to represent whole areas of interests and thereby have people who are on the outside of the interest, paint all people with the interest as fascists.
That is the difference. I miss when people could have interests without having to defend themselves against trigger happy people who see ghosts in every corner.