Freud asserts that WWI had destroyed the idealism of European civilization present previously.
- War corrupted thought, making science biased towards weapons development, anthropology biased against the enemy’s culture, and psychiatry eager to diagnose the enemy as mentally decrepit
- Before the war, most had an idealistic view that conflict could be settled without war, but this idealism was destroyed after WWI
- Pre-war Europeans were unbiased against other countries and enjoyed a freedom of travel and thought that was destroyed though WWI
- Warfare before WWI was thought to be a chivalrous exercise without damage to civilians, a stance clearly overturned by the war
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