Posted on 03/18/2014 12:09:32 PM PDT by DJ Taylor
Not naive. Realistic. Very few people are that mentally ill and still able to hold responsible jobs.
There aren’t many Hitlers around, and I doubt that our poster friend truly holds that viewpoint either.
It’s not that anybody needs it, but it is inevitable.
I believe that it is more due to the fact that humans as biological organism, are ‘governed’ by the fractal nature of the logistic growth equation.
Just as stock markets may be described by fractal algorithms (and even possibly predicted - if you are professor James Simon); human activity is as well.
We are forever destined to repeat the economic cycles as well as the cycle of warfare and disease. It has always happened this way and possibly always will.
What I would suggest we change is the caste of the casualties. Usually, our wise and fearless leaders engage in the chess game of global politics and our hapless children are sent off to war to kill the children of our wise leader’s enemies. We have never really had a problem with the average citizen.
A far better idea for future wars would be to make sure that the first casualties of any conflict would be the children of leaders. They are the ones who vote for and have caused every war, and so their sons and daughters should be immediately drafter for any conflict they start. The draft should begin only after all of the children, nieces and nephews of our Presidents, Congressmen and Senators have been killed in mortal battle.
The first targets of our armies should be the leaders and their families. Not more hapless child soldiers of the voiceless masses.
drafter = drafted
:)
You are either very young or you have lived a very sheltered life.
There was a fellow back around 1910 who wrote a book (the name escapes me) making precisely that point; that for economic reasons, there would never be another major war in Europe.
So...the world would be better off without us?...as the History Channel series “Life After People” suggests?
Man definitely does not understand much, but if all we ever say in response to idiocy is lets talk nicebwill the contrast be drawn..
As far as the world being better off without humans, the world was created for us..God can makes worlds with a word..perhaps one day we will stop hugging the social to make ourselves look good and see the ruin of our ways..come Lord.
Wasn’t me,but I think I’d like that book. If you ever remember the title, let me know. I’ll see what I can do about finding it on my own. Thanks
Neither. I am, however, deeply introspective and a great student of human nature as well.
Wilco.
Courtesy of Larry Schweikart:
“The Great Illusion”.
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Illusion-Sir-Norman-Angell/dp/1602069387
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