World War I collapse destroyed the world Austrian intellectuals grew up in

Evidence

Popper writes in his autobiography that “the breakdown of the Austrian Empire and the aftermath of the First World War, the famine, the hunger riots in Vienna, and the runaway inflation […] destroyed the world in which I had grown up.” — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 701

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the shared formative trauma of the Austrian school neoliberals treated across chapters 1-2 and in Hayek’s biography. — connects to: World War I destroyed faith in progress, evolution, and continuity with history. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1766; Total defeat in war can collapse an entire civilization’s cultural self-confidence — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 286

Broader Connections

• World War I destroyed faith in progress, evolution, and continuity with history. #expands (0.90) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1766
• Total defeat in war can collapse an entire civilization’s cultural self-confidence #expands (0.78) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 286