The Culturist (@the_culturist_) posted at 3:46 pm on Sun, Aug 17, 2025:
100 years ago, Hemingway predicted the cultural ruin of the West.
Even though his peers believed a world without morals would free them, Hemingway saw how it would only lead to more despair. That’s why in his novel The Sun Also Rises, he depicts the chaos caused by the breakdown
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100 years ago, Hemingway predicted the cultural ruin of the West. Even though his peers believed a world without morals would free them, Hemingway saw how it would only lead to more despair. That’s why in his novel The Sun Also Rises, he depicts the chaos caused by the breakdown of traditional morality, and its repercussions on man’s quest for meaning. Set in the 1920s, the novel depicts a group of WWI veterans living in Paris. Traumatized by the war, they orient their lives around liquor and sex, rejecting any sense of deeper meaning in the process. As the plot develops, sexual escapades, jealousy, and a journey to Pamplona slowly unravel the cohesion of the group — the result is a psychological portrait of Hemingway’s characters that eerily resembles that of many people living in modern society. Hemingway’s main point is this: by destroying morality, you emasculate men. And if a man has nothing to fight for, he’s reduced to destructive hedonism. In this article, we explore what The Sun Also Rises has to teach contemporary readers about relationships, love, masculinity, and more. Hemingway’s debut novel is a masterclass on the troubles faced in the modern world, and how to find meaning in the midst of them…
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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