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I’m not going to question your premise, I just want to point out that while a small minority they are, many pacifists would submit knowing their fate. Fortunat
by mc32 4y ago
I’m not going to question your premise, I just want to point out that while a small minority they are, many pacifists would submit knowing their fate. Fortunately most people are not pacifists against tyranny.
- w-j-w 4y ago
- mistrial9 4y agodidn't Albert Einstein say something about simultaneously preparing for, and preventing War, is not possible? It hints of an inner psyche truth and also a social-purpose mobilization truth. War professionals win against war amateurs, no doubt about it. But War professionals do not like to hear that they are in fact, making the bed for War and therefore it will come; or that the State will sometimes enact War despite their people, not for them. Someone else said "great literature is about love and war, common paperbacks are about sex and violence" .. there are layers to this and those layers do not necessarily resonate. Truth as we live it contains contradictions. Large contradictions exist in predatory actions versus defense versus justice, and using violence to win political power that brings stability. The arts are personal and the images in Guernica are personal psyche images, to my eye.
- ncmncm 4y agoMuch as I hate seeing money wasted on weaponry that could be devoted to forestalling global climate catastrophe and the imminent collapse of civilization... War has only ever been prevented by having been prepared for it. Sometimes you get war anyway. When you do, the outcome without preparation is much worse. Captain Cook happened to mention the peaceful Chatham Islanders, hundreds of miles off east, to some Maori in New Zealand. Within two weeks they had mounted an expedition that killed all the men and enslaved or killed all the women and children.