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the slow tragic art of everything you built choosing to forget you owned it
means the moment or process by which someone or something powerful comes to ruin, often through their own flaws.
from A plain English compound, joining "down" (Old English "dūn," descent) to "fall" (Old English "feallan"). It first meant a literal fall — water tumbling, rain coming down — before settling, by the late medieval period, into the figurative sense of a person's collapse from height to wreckage. The picture stays in the bones of the word: gravity always wins.
- word origin
- literally a falling-down, from medieval ruin imagery
- hamartia
- Greek tragic flaw means missing the mark, like archery
- meme afterlife
- the Hitler bunker scene became history's most parodied clip
- icarus rule
- the wax melts because you flew, not despite it
for instance
nazi germany collapse — third reich fell in 1945 after hitler's suicide and unconditional surrender
titanic sinking — rms titanic hit iceberg and sank in north atlantic on april 15, 1912