“But the names “Nagumo” and “Yamamoto” keep rising up in memory,...”
And Hitler and Mussolini and Stalin and the Kaiser and King George. Let the dead past bury its dead.
Besides, anyone under forty knows no history prior to the Beatles, anyway.
Wow!, your perspective is so rare on this board that I'm always pleasantly surprised when I see it.
“But the names “Nagumo” and “Yamamoto” keep rising up in memory,...”
But this one is so common, that I wonder if there is a hidden desire to maintain old power structures.
No, it isn't dead. The past is alive as the present. It keeps happening over and over again.
If you don't believe me, look up the term "uniformitarianism".
The Biblical version is, "There is nothing new under the sun," which was almost universally true until our own age of inventiveness, which has deluded many people into thinking that we are somehow free of the templates of the past. Not as long as we have human DNA and corruptible natures, we are not.