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And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. The beginnings of the Dead History movement are hard to trace. Perhaps it was Martinsen's address before the League of Nine Nations, calling for a putting-aside of old prejudices. Perhaps it was the Paris Exposition of 1936?*, when the aether-ship regatta captured the hearts and minds of fifty thousand tourists. Perhaps it was the Thirty Seconds of Silence, when suddenly the past no longer seemed relevant. Regardless, the social changes the Dead History movement wrought were already well underway by the second half of the twentieth century, and indeed the full extent to which the coda had been integrated into the popular culture can be seen in Dame Margot Mallifice (heroine of Lo Our Young Empire, published 1983* by Olympius Mons University Press) making her denunciation of Sir Graves (and, by extension, pre-Empress history) before the assembled aristos of the Olympius Mons colony. "'What do we care of Napoleon?' interrupted the raven-haired Dame seated at Lord Worith's left hand. She tossed back her head and laughed. 'Napoleon, Alexander, Caesar, the fellow with the hat -- you know who I mean, Jerry... They're all dead. We're alive. "'We've moved out here, and we live here. We're spreading out, you can't contain us. Already they're drawing up plans for a boat to make the trip from Titania Station to Proxima Centauri. We'll get away from this star, and then they'll be no stopping us. We don't need to care about one dirty little planet, and we certainly don't need to care about dead people who used to live there. My aunt Mabel had far more impact on my life than Benjamin Disraeli and Anton Chekov combined. If we want poetry or music or stories or histories, we can write them ourselves.'" This general sense of newness and novelty for its own sake which so pervaded culture 1937?*-2010* reached its zenith with the Ionian Infatada and the Jovian Riots of 2010?*. By 2012* the movement had played itself out and indeed been swallowed up in a “back to the Classics” counter-movement (which itself began as early as 1969*, the Year of the Burning Dogs?). SEE ALSO: Aetheric Domain, Ionian Infatada, Year of the Burning Dogs? Lexicon 500 DEF | Deimos Experiment > This is a D entry in the Lexicon of the Lost 500 Years. |
