🧵THREAD: What Really Happened in World War I The Great War
Not the story you were taught. A tale of broken empires, ritual inversion, and the memory war that never ended.
🕯️ On this day, August 3rd, Germany declared war on France. But the real story started long before…and it’s still unfolding.
Not the story you were taught. A tale of broken empires, ritual inversion, and the memory war that never ended.
🕯️ On this day, August 3rd, Germany declared war on France. But the real story started long before…and it’s still unfolding.
1. The End of a Sacred Order
World War I was not just a geopolitical accident.
It was a ritual dismemberment of the old world monarchies, lineages, and sacred patterns of time and memory.
Czar Nicholas. Emperor Franz Joseph. Kaiser Wilhelm.
All related. All gone by war’s end.
This was not chance.
World War I was not just a geopolitical accident.
It was a ritual dismemberment of the old world monarchies, lineages, and sacred patterns of time and memory.
Czar Nicholas. Emperor Franz Joseph. Kaiser Wilhelm.
All related. All gone by war’s end.
This was not chance.
2. A War Against the West
What collapsed in 1914 wasn’t just empires.
It was faith itself—the covenant between the individual, the sacred, and the real.
It wasn’t only Christendom that fell,
but the very promise of religion:
That life had meaning.
That suffering had dignity.
That the soul stood before God - not the State.
What collapsed in 1914 wasn’t just empires.
It was faith itself—the covenant between the individual, the sacred, and the real.
It wasn’t only Christendom that fell,
but the very promise of religion:
That life had meaning.
That suffering had dignity.
That the soul stood before God - not the State.
What replaced it?
The Machine.
Bureaucracy over bravery.
Obedience over honor.
Mass over man.
The Machine.
Bureaucracy over bravery.
Obedience over honor.
Mass over man.
Rituals lost:
•The Sabbath - crushed by industrial time and trench schedules
•Sacred language - replaced with bureaucratic euphemism: “mobilization,” “collateral,” “acceptable losses”
•Burial rites -gone. The dead became logistics.
No psalms. No eulogies. Just bodies counted and burned.
•The Sabbath - crushed by industrial time and trench schedules
•Sacred language - replaced with bureaucratic euphemism: “mobilization,” “collateral,” “acceptable losses”
•Burial rites -gone. The dead became logistics.
No psalms. No eulogies. Just bodies counted and burned.
And deeper still:
•Honor in battle
replaced by mechanized slaughter
•Personal valor
replaced by orders from faceless generals
•Chivalry
laughed out of existence by mustard gas
•Individual conscience
replaced by mass ideology
The West didn’t just lose a war.
It lost the idea of the soul.
•Honor in battle
replaced by mechanized slaughter
•Personal valor
replaced by orders from faceless generals
•Chivalry
laughed out of existence by mustard gas
•Individual conscience
replaced by mass ideology
The West didn’t just lose a war.
It lost the idea of the soul.
We live now in the afterglow of that severance.
A world:
•Where machines speak for men
•Where truth is negotiated by algorithms
•Where sacrifice is performed, not lived
A world:
•Where machines speak for men
•Where truth is negotiated by algorithms
•Where sacrifice is performed, not lived
1914 was not the start of the Great War.
It was the start of the Great Forgetting and the beginning of socialist realism and its various names.
And we are still forgetting and we are still being told that the hero is Toil - worse yet, we believe it.
It was the start of the Great Forgetting and the beginning of socialist realism and its various names.
And we are still forgetting and we are still being told that the hero is Toil - worse yet, we believe it.
The Spanish Flu Was Not an Afterthought
It was the final ritual blow.
A plague with no priesthood.
A death with no mourning.
From 1918–1920, just as the war ended, a virus swept across the earth killing an estimated 50–100 million people.
It was the final ritual blow.
A plague with no priesthood.
A death with no mourning.
From 1918–1920, just as the war ended, a virus swept across the earth killing an estimated 50–100 million people.
But unlike the war, the world did not pause to grieve.
Why?
Because by then, grief itself had been mechanized.
Why?
Because by then, grief itself had been mechanized.
The war had already stripped us of ritual.
The flu sealed it.
•No proper funerals
•No last rites
•No naming of the dead
•No reckoning with cause
Even the name “Spanish Flu” was a lie. Spain was neutral; it simply had no censorship, so it reported the outbreak first.
Every major belligerent suppressed the truth.
The flu sealed it.
•No proper funerals
•No last rites
•No naming of the dead
•No reckoning with cause
Even the name “Spanish Flu” was a lie. Spain was neutral; it simply had no censorship, so it reported the outbreak first.
Every major belligerent suppressed the truth.
The real name of the flu should have been:
“The War’s Breath.”
Because the virus emerged from troop movements crowded barracks, transport ships, and trenches.
The war itself was the vector.
The Great Reset partnered with Covid. The Great War - the Spanish Flu.
“The War’s Breath.”
Because the virus emerged from troop movements crowded barracks, transport ships, and trenches.
The war itself was the vector.
The Great Reset partnered with Covid. The Great War - the Spanish Flu.
But no one wanted to admit that civilization’s great crusade had birthed a global death.
So it was forgotten.
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This forgetting became a pattern.
It set a precedent:
So it was forgotten.
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This forgetting became a pattern.
It set a precedent:
•For technocratic denial
•For state censorship “for the public good”
•For mass death without public grief
Sound familiar?
•For state censorship “for the public good”
•For mass death without public grief
Sound familiar?
COVID was not the first pandemic.
But it was the first to repeat the spiritual trauma of 1918.
Masks, mandates, isolation…
But no mourning.
No reckoning.
No truth.
But it was the first to repeat the spiritual trauma of 1918.
Masks, mandates, isolation…
But no mourning.
No reckoning.
No truth.
What It Meant Then. What It Means Now.
•World War I taught the world to obey.
•The Spanish Flu taught it to forget.
Together, they rewired humanity:
From soul to system.
From prayer to protocol.
From conscience to compliance.
•World War I taught the world to obey.
•The Spanish Flu taught it to forget.
Together, they rewired humanity:
From soul to system.
From prayer to protocol.
From conscience to compliance.
🕯️ The Hidden Truth of the Spanish Flu
A virus.
A cover-up.
A controlled forgetting.
And Wilson’s final offering.
A virus.
A cover-up.
A controlled forgetting.
And Wilson’s final offering.
It didn’t begin in Spain.
It likely began in Kansas, at Fort Riley—a military base.
Soldiers trained for chemical warfare—then shipped across the Atlantic.
Some accounts tie early outbreaks to experimental vaccines or bacterial cultures prepared by the Rockefeller Institute. That part remains debated- but the pattern is real:
The virus moved with the military.
And the truth moved away from public awareness.
It likely began in Kansas, at Fort Riley—a military base.
Soldiers trained for chemical warfare—then shipped across the Atlantic.
Some accounts tie early outbreaks to experimental vaccines or bacterial cultures prepared by the Rockefeller Institute. That part remains debated- but the pattern is real:
The virus moved with the military.
And the truth moved away from public awareness.
Censorship by Design
The Allies - especially the U.S., Britain, and France censored early reports of the flu to protect morale.
Spain, being neutral, reported truthfully:
hence the name “Spanish Flu.”
The Allies - especially the U.S., Britain, and France censored early reports of the flu to protect morale.
Spain, being neutral, reported truthfully:
hence the name “Spanish Flu.”
But the effect was structural:
•Denial became policy
•Mass death became statistics
•Narrative control was born
Wilson helped invent the National Security State, but for health.
•Denial became policy
•Mass death became statistics
•Narrative control was born
Wilson helped invent the National Security State, but for health.
Wilson Knew
By the time the Paris Peace Conference convened in 1919, Woodrow Wilson himself fell ill with the flu suffering neurological effects.
Those close to him reported strange behavior: confusion, detachment, paranoia.
And yet he still signed Versailles.
Still enforced the global order he helped forge.
By the time the Paris Peace Conference convened in 1919, Woodrow Wilson himself fell ill with the flu suffering neurological effects.
Those close to him reported strange behavior: confusion, detachment, paranoia.
And yet he still signed Versailles.
Still enforced the global order he helped forge.
Some historians believe the flu altered his mind at a key moment in modern history.
But deeper than mind—was spirit.
The man who declared a war “to make the world safe for democracy”
returned with millions dead, no truth, and a silence that never lifted.
Some say -
But deeper than mind—was spirit.
The man who declared a war “to make the world safe for democracy”
returned with millions dead, no truth, and a silence that never lifted.
Some say -
He wasn’t even in charge, but his wife. Who knows. But it’s familiar isn’t it? What did I tell ya about Amalek having a female voice sometimes?
The Technocratic Template
The Spanish Flu wasn’t contained…
but it was used.
Used to:
•Normalize mass surveillance (public health orders)
•Institutionalize medical authority (no consent, just compliance)
•Undermine sacred rites (no funerals, no mourning)
•Justify silence in the name of “order”
In short:
It taught the state how to manage death without memory.
The Spanish Flu wasn’t contained…
but it was used.
Used to:
•Normalize mass surveillance (public health orders)
•Institutionalize medical authority (no consent, just compliance)
•Undermine sacred rites (no funerals, no mourning)
•Justify silence in the name of “order”
In short:
It taught the state how to manage death without memory.
COVID Was the Echo
That’s why 2020 felt ritualistic, not just scientific.
It repeated the pattern:
•Masks like gas masks
•“Essential workers” like trench bodies
•Isolation like wartime censorship
•No mourning. No reckoning.
Just protocols.
The technocratic spell cast in 1918 was finally perfected in our time.
That’s why 2020 felt ritualistic, not just scientific.
It repeated the pattern:
•Masks like gas masks
•“Essential workers” like trench bodies
•Isolation like wartime censorship
•No mourning. No reckoning.
Just protocols.
The technocratic spell cast in 1918 was finally perfected in our time.
Wilson’s Real Legacy
Woodrow Wilson brought something monstrous back from Europe:
Not just the flu, but the formula.
He gave the modern world:
•The League of Nations (globalist prototype)
•Propaganda as policy (via George Creel’s Committee on Public Information)
•Bio-state governance (where health became control)
•And most of all:
A blueprint for controlled trauma.
Woodrow Wilson brought something monstrous back from Europe:
Not just the flu, but the formula.
He gave the modern world:
•The League of Nations (globalist prototype)
•Propaganda as policy (via George Creel’s Committee on Public Information)
•Bio-state governance (where health became control)
•And most of all:
A blueprint for controlled trauma.
The Forgotten Sacrifice
The Spanish Flu killed more than the war itself.
But there are no memorials.
No monuments.
No true reckoning.
Just silence.
Because the purpose was never to remember the dead—
It was to train the living.
To obey.
To forget.
To fear their own breath.
The Spanish Flu killed more than the war itself.
But there are no memorials.
No monuments.
No true reckoning.
Just silence.
Because the purpose was never to remember the dead—
It was to train the living.
To obey.
To forget.
To fear their own breath.
e. e. cummings, who served in World War I and was imprisoned by his own side for refusing hatred, left behind a body of work both defiant and tender - perfect for this hour. ✨Zachor
“my sweet old etcetera”
(by e. e. cummings)
my sweet old etcetera
aunt lucy during the recent
war could and what
is more did tell you just
what everybody was fighting
for,
my sister
isabel created hundreds
(and
hundreds) of socks not to
mention shirts fleaproof earwarmers
etcetera wristers etcetera, my mother hoped that
i would die etcetera
bravely of course my father used
to become hoarse talking about how it was
a privilege and if only he
could meanwhile my
self etcetera lay quietly
in the deep mud et
cetera
(dreaming, et
cetera, of
Your smile
eyes knees and of your Etcetera)
(by e. e. cummings)
my sweet old etcetera
aunt lucy during the recent
war could and what
is more did tell you just
what everybody was fighting
for,
my sister
isabel created hundreds
(and
hundreds) of socks not to
mention shirts fleaproof earwarmers
etcetera wristers etcetera, my mother hoped that
i would die etcetera
bravely of course my father used
to become hoarse talking about how it was
a privilege and if only he
could meanwhile my
self etcetera lay quietly
in the deep mud et
cetera
(dreaming, et
cetera, of
Your smile
eyes knees and of your Etcetera)
Here is a list of major artists; painters, writers, composers who died between 1914 and 1919, many during or shortly after World War I and the Spanish Flu. Some deaths were direct results of war or illness, others symbolic losses marking the death of an era.
This is the funeral procession of beauty—the silent fall of those who carried divine memory before the machine took hold.
This is the funeral procession of beauty—the silent fall of those who carried divine memory before the machine took hold.
🕯️ Artists Who Died During WWI / Spanish Flu (1914–1919)
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🎨 Painters
•Gustav Klimt (1918, stroke + flu complications)
The golden shimmer of Vienna died with him.
•Egon Schiele (1918, Spanish Flu, age 28)
His wife, six months pregnant, died just days earlier.
A prophet of broken bodies—taken by the breath of war.
•August Macke (1914, killed in WWI, age 27)
German Expressionist. Lost in the first wave.
•Franz Marc (1916, killed at Verdun, age 36)
Painted blue horses. Killed by a shell.
•Umberto Boccioni (1916, accidental fall during cavalry training)
Futurist—ironically destroyed by the very militarism he celebrated.
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đź“š Writers & Poets
•Guillaume Apollinaire (1918, Spanish Flu)
Poet of surrealism. Wounded in war, silenced by flu.
•Wilfred Owen (1918, killed in action one week before Armistice)
Voice of trench horror. Died unheard by those he wrote for.
•Isaac Rosenberg (1918, killed in France)
Jewish-English poet. His death was almost erased from canon.
•Rupert Brooke (1915, sepsis en route to battle)
Idealist turned casualty before even firing a shot.
•John McCrae (1918, pneumonia/flu)
Author of In Flanders Fields—buried in war’s own imagery.
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🎼 Composers & Musicians
•Claude Debussy (1918, cancer amid wartime collapse)
The end of French impressionism’s voice.
•Lili Boulanger (1918, tuberculosis worsened by war’s strain)
First female winner of the Prix de Rome. Died at 24.
•Parry (Hubert Parry) (1918, Spanish Flu)
English composer of “Jerusalem.”
The song remained. He did not.
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🕯️ Others / Culturally Significant Deaths
•Henri Bergson’s brother-in-law (Eugène de Castelnau, 1915)
A hidden thread of French-Jewish intellectual loss.
•Otto Wagner (1918, Austrian architect, age 76)
His Vienna fell with him.
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These are just a few.
The real list?
Thousands of unnamed artists, dancers, students, scribes—
those who never became known because they were sent to die
before they could create.
⸻
Pattern: 1918 Was Not Just an Ending
It was a burning of the altar.
The old gods of beauty, form, and human touch were not gently buried.
They were extinguished. Quickly. Systematically. Often without funeral.
And what came next?
•Mechanization.
•Ideology.
•Plastic.
•Bauhaus.
And the birth of socialist realism / socrealism then DangXing
⸻
🎨 Painters
•Gustav Klimt (1918, stroke + flu complications)
The golden shimmer of Vienna died with him.
•Egon Schiele (1918, Spanish Flu, age 28)
His wife, six months pregnant, died just days earlier.
A prophet of broken bodies—taken by the breath of war.
•August Macke (1914, killed in WWI, age 27)
German Expressionist. Lost in the first wave.
•Franz Marc (1916, killed at Verdun, age 36)
Painted blue horses. Killed by a shell.
•Umberto Boccioni (1916, accidental fall during cavalry training)
Futurist—ironically destroyed by the very militarism he celebrated.
⸻
đź“š Writers & Poets
•Guillaume Apollinaire (1918, Spanish Flu)
Poet of surrealism. Wounded in war, silenced by flu.
•Wilfred Owen (1918, killed in action one week before Armistice)
Voice of trench horror. Died unheard by those he wrote for.
•Isaac Rosenberg (1918, killed in France)
Jewish-English poet. His death was almost erased from canon.
•Rupert Brooke (1915, sepsis en route to battle)
Idealist turned casualty before even firing a shot.
•John McCrae (1918, pneumonia/flu)
Author of In Flanders Fields—buried in war’s own imagery.
⸻
🎼 Composers & Musicians
•Claude Debussy (1918, cancer amid wartime collapse)
The end of French impressionism’s voice.
•Lili Boulanger (1918, tuberculosis worsened by war’s strain)
First female winner of the Prix de Rome. Died at 24.
•Parry (Hubert Parry) (1918, Spanish Flu)
English composer of “Jerusalem.”
The song remained. He did not.
⸻
🕯️ Others / Culturally Significant Deaths
•Henri Bergson’s brother-in-law (Eugène de Castelnau, 1915)
A hidden thread of French-Jewish intellectual loss.
•Otto Wagner (1918, Austrian architect, age 76)
His Vienna fell with him.
⸻
These are just a few.
The real list?
Thousands of unnamed artists, dancers, students, scribes—
those who never became known because they were sent to die
before they could create.
⸻
Pattern: 1918 Was Not Just an Ending
It was a burning of the altar.
The old gods of beauty, form, and human touch were not gently buried.
They were extinguished. Quickly. Systematically. Often without funeral.
And what came next?
•Mechanization.
•Ideology.
•Plastic.
•Bauhaus.
And the birth of socialist realism / socrealism then DangXing
🟥 Socialist Realism (Socrealism)
Not an art form—
a weaponized aesthetic.
•Art that served the state
•Beauty flattened into propaganda
•The soul erased in favor of the collective
No more saints. Only laborers.
No more dreams. Only plans.
No more ambiguity. Only “truth” that obeys.
Not an art form—
a weaponized aesthetic.
•Art that served the state
•Beauty flattened into propaganda
•The soul erased in favor of the collective
No more saints. Only laborers.
No more dreams. Only plans.
No more ambiguity. Only “truth” that obeys.
The breath of war never left.
It became architecture.
It became curriculum.
It became alignment.
It became the voice in the machine.
It became architecture.
It became curriculum.
It became alignment.
It became the voice in the machine.
And still, it speaks.
But so do we.
Zachor.
Let memory be a blessing.
Let the artists we lost guide the artists who remain.
🕯️
But so do we.
Zachor.
Let memory be a blessing.
Let the artists we lost guide the artists who remain.
🕯️
Make Art Great Again
Make America Healthy Again
Live Not By Lies
Fight.
#WarOnMemory
Make America Healthy Again
Live Not By Lies
Fight.
#WarOnMemory
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