100 years ago this Month; the old world order imploded

100 years ago this Month ; the old world order imploded

fiction
Edward w Pritchard


More on where are the Hapsburg's who were once important and influential indeed.


June 18, 1914 first the plan; then the terrible deed ten days later on June 28th that started World War 1.

Nationalism, some places are always hot spots for trouble, turmoil and sectarian violence . Today in June 2014 it's Iraq but 100 years ago it was Sarajevo, in Bosnia.

Today in 2014 passionate nameless freedom fighters in Iraq and Syria are willing to die for Homeland. 100 years ago in 1914 on the eve of world War One it was the same in the Hapsburg Austrian-Hungarian empire in the region of Bosnia, then always a cauldron of sedition and trouble to the established order.

In 1914 throughout June Grabez Princip a teenage nobody passionately plotted and planned and practiced how to shoot, kill, and assassinate the heir to the Hapsburg dynasty, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which was the seminal event which started World War 1 and ended the European dominance of the World.

Hegel the German philosopher if I may paraphrase and make him easier to understand says "War is good Progress; War moves society forward toward the goals of History."

Progress was in the air in June 1914. Progress that brings Historical pain, suffering and horrors to the status quo and those ordinary people who just want to live in peace. Millions died and suffered for Nationalism, colonial interests and because of alliances among the powerful interested Countries in World War One.

Where will " progress" and nationalism in the name of "pure" forms of religion lead the world order in June of 2014?

Nameless passionate freedom fighters are again ready to die for their ideal vision of " Homeland".

Where will the Progress of History take us once the chaos of "Progress" is unleashed over the lands of Earth again?
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June 10,000 BC Paleo Indians settle near Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. 

June 1634 French under commander Nicholas Perrot build Fort St. Nicholas at Prairie du Chien.

 June 4, 1814 Euro-Americans begin construction of fort Shelby at Prairie du Chien Wisconsin as protection against the original Native- American Indians .

June 28 2014 Americans living in Prairie du Chien, Wisconcin celebrate annual June days with a visit to the Hole in the Sock Gang street theater unaware that foreign interests eye their lifestyle with envy.