swim through the fires to stay in this world

The Newsroom managed to get un-blacklisted on my tumblr dash, and ugh, does the concept of that show annoy me. Linda Holmes of Pop Culture Happy Hour nailed when she said that the show was fanfic for the recent past. It’s totally true. The show is desperately trying to be relevant and cuttingly progressive only, whoops, they’re only talking about events of which public opinions have already swayed to their side.

If they wanted to write a show about brave progressives making a bold stand against conservative opposition (while making sure that all the viewers are firmly on the protagonists’ side), they should have made a show about the White Rose. Because nothing says ‘total progressive badasses’ like a group of German college kids protesting against Hilter during his ascent to power.

What were WWI and WWII called as they broke out? Like, I know WWI was referred to as the great war (the great patrotic war if you were in Russia), but what were they called as they were happening?