In 1928 DH Lawrence wrote ‘A Letter from Germany’. Novelists are necessary to diagnose a zeitgeist. This is…

In 1928 DH Lawrence wrote ‘A Letter from Germany’. Novelists are necessary to diagnose a zeitgeist. This is more than 10 years before WW2. He knew then what was coming. Compare with our ‘peace-and-production’ fake normality today. /1 https://t.co/dXYwXzEsRM

The glossing over of deep currents. As Lawrence says, ‘Something has happened. Something has happened which has not yet eventuated.’ He knew it was broken, he could sense it. As a novelist he had a much more sophisticated diagnostic toolkit. And this is how 2024 feels, to me. /2

Something has happened. Something that hasn’t yet eventuated. We broke society. We’re desperately repairing the plane while it’s still in flight, but it’s broken. /end