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Our modern weapons are far more destructive, but our propensity for violence and war seems to be an invariant across the millennia.
by helloworld 2mo ago
Our modern weapons are far more destructive, but our propensity for violence and war seems to be an invariant across the millennia.
- shevy-java 2mo agoWell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket From 1935. And he was not the first one to point that out either. I actually think that thanks to the internet, we expose many more criminal build ups towards warfare nowadays than before.
- somenameforme 2mo agoEisenhower's farewell speech [1] is also basically prophetic, which is quite unfortunate in that they were all warnings of things to vigilantly avoid. [1] - https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp
- yurishimo 2mo agoWar… war never changes.