There is a musical on the BBC website about John Maynard Keynes at the Versailles peace conference.
he frets over the lack of opportunities for heroism and adventure for young people in his time, and advocates something like the "moral equivalent of war"—some kind of peacetime civil service-type-thing that places high demands on enlistees in terms of physical exertion and challenge.
And there is like a page in Jacques Pepin's autobiography "The Apprentice" (I think) about the high-handedness of some of the folks in the incoming Kennedy administration. It's an entertaining and edifying read overall and nearly none of it is about national US politics but there is that one page.
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Date: 2022-12-13 12:11 am (UTC)Obliquely reminds me of the appeal of cop and medical TV shows, and obliquely of this piece on Trek and The West Wing...
And there is like a page in Jacques Pepin's autobiography "The Apprentice" (I think) about the high-handedness of some of the folks in the incoming Kennedy administration. It's an entertaining and edifying read overall and nearly none of it is about national US politics but there is that one page.