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brightknightie) wrote2021-02-07 06:59 pm
brightknightie) wrote2021-02-07 06:59 pm
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1177 B.C.E.
I listened to a history podcast episode today that gave me some different thoughts on the place of HL's Horsemen in their time: "What Happened After Civilization Collapsed" from Throughline on NPR, about the end of the Bronze Age. One of the speakers even uses the phrase "the four horsemen" at one point, metaphorically of course, but on the brink.
In myself, I'm unlikely ever to embrace that part of the HL story; it wasn't built for me. But situating it/them as the aftermath of a civilizational collapse, as the face or scourge (depending which side you're on) of what their contemporaries truly saw as what we'd call a post-apocalyptic remnant... there's potential for more.
(Throughline's tagline is: "we go back in time to understand the present.")
In myself, I'm unlikely ever to embrace that part of the HL story; it wasn't built for me. But situating it/them as the aftermath of a civilizational collapse, as the face or scourge (depending which side you're on) of what their contemporaries truly saw as what we'd call a post-apocalyptic remnant... there's potential for more.
(Throughline's tagline is: "we go back in time to understand the present.")