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Yes, from Dan Carlin's podcasts I learned of the book The Great Illusion (1909), the illusion being that nations gained through war. In it, the author wrote tha
by qqn 6y ago
Yes, from Dan Carlin's podcasts I learned of the book The Great Illusion (1909), the illusion being that nations gained through war. In it, the author wrote that "the economic cost of war was so great that no one could possibly hope to gain by starting a war the consequences of which would be so disastrous," concluding that a general European war was very unlikely to start, and if it did, it would not last long. This was a popular view, yet WWI still kicked off just a few years later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Illusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Illusion
- ashtonkem 6y ago“This time is different” is quite the siren song in several areas of human endeavors.
- qqn 6y agoThe oldest joke on Wall Street, or so they say.
- nostrademons 6y agoAmazing that you can be both so right and so wrong at the same time. That central thesis is true - WW1 and WW2 were devastating to the economies of the nations involved (many of which didn't survive as ongoing political organizations). He just underestimated the extent to which humanity is irrational, short-sighted, and self-destructive.