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Those dreams of glorious pasts are usually very self-defeating (lots of costly police actions in former colonys) with no visibile reward - and thus not half as
by LifeLiverTransp 8y ago
Those dreams of glorious pasts are usually very self-defeating (lots of costly police actions in former colonys) with no visibile reward - and thus not half as dangerous as internalized past injustices.
Nazi Germany, Japan, and alot of other countrys got drunk on the injustices of the past and used them to justify atrocities in neighbouring countrys. If it were not for the nukes, alot of those nationalist movements would turn into the same pyro-clastic streaming movements we saw in WW2 spilling over borders and running away with civilization.
I raise my glass to the post los alamos world order.
To a lid on the kettle, forcing dictators to thread littly on there neigbhours and house in the dragons they unleash.
- Max-q 8y agoI don't know what that means - Dr. Temperance Brennan
- drharby 8y agoDr. Brennam, bonecall...something...about a bone?
- wavefunction 8y agoI downvoted you for simply quoting a fictional TV character as your reply. That's more appropriate for other Internet forums, as HN seems to value substantive discussions rather than pop-culture references and one-liners.
- kingofhdds 8y ago>Nazi Germany, Japan, and alot of other countrys got drunk Isn't it the Godwin's Law in action? I seriously doubt that getting out of Russian influence means something apocalyptic. Estonia, for instance, does well, and I'm old enough to remember Russian newspapers predicting its collapse without Russian "big brother".
- paulryanrogers 8y agoDid you mean "tread lightly"?
- usrusr 8y agoBut whenever dreams of former glory set the agenda, they are promoted as an injustice of the past: "history cheated us out of an empire, let's take back what we are owed". ww2 Japan seems to be the rare exception (unless I am missing some former expansion phase and contraction cycle)