Worth noting the book “The Great Illusion” by Norman Angell published in 1909 in the years before WWI. The book is considered probably the best example of Europ

Worth noting the book “The Great Illusion” by Norman Angell published in 1909 in the years before WWI. The book is considered probably the best example of Europe’s delusions regarding the nature of peace and war before 1914. One of Angell’s main ideas was that trade between countries rendered them so close, increasing familiarity and contact, that war would be extremely unlikely because of decreased nationalist sentiment. He believed that contact and connection reduces disagreement. His book did not really account for the fact that increased connection and encounters simply give you many more things with which to disagree and possibly go to war over. Charles Lindbergh years later took up this idea again, believing the airplane to be a utopian machine of unity between peoples and countries. He believed it so much he was helping the Nazis and the Luftwaffe well into 1938 without issue. Finally I want to note I see a concerning amount of similarity between the utopianist rhetoric that came from physicists and aircraft engineers in the 1920’s and those of software engineers today, and I think this is worth considering. Those inventions, while incredible, played a key role in one of the most brutal wars of all time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Illusion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Illusion