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| | Viridian Note 00272: Au Revoir, Belle Epoque |
 | | We are suddenly in a turbulent and violent time, and in a burst of harsh martial virtue, our immediate past is being written off as squalid, and overindulged, and pampered, and fatally innocent, and possibly somewhat effeminate. |
 | | The death of the last Belle Epoque -- through terrorism in glamorous Serbia, unfortunately -- was followed by the gruesome mobilizations of August 1914, the War to End War. |
 | | We may be well on our way to that much-forecasted next stage, Khaki Green, where pop culture and commercialism lose all their charms and the heavy lifting gets done by those long-time Viridian idols, cops and the military. |
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