I'd like to get into a time machine and go a couple hundred years before the so called "Axial Age" and see what it was like.
War, something we can be so proud of :roll:
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But it had already been a reality which needed the enlightenment to gin fruition again.
If you want a travelling companion, pick me pick me!. Although I'd want to stop off in 1940's Harlem and listen to Duke, Miles, Satchmo, and Art Blakey live. I'll also need to stop and pick up an appropriate dress and such.
Oh, to dream...
(sharp intake of breath)
Are you two ready to confirm that the 'Pirates of the High Seas' was the first false flag and they would be the equal of ISIS today??
don't be dumb. democracy never was a thing that existed, and it can't exist with this bourgeois education system anyways.
As well as you bunch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarations_of_war_by_Great_Britain_and_the_United_Kingdom
.... and organized religions and nationalism and ...........
.... and communism and totalitarianism and authoritarianism and socialism and dictatorships and despotism and monarchies and republics and ...........
Also when there is no need for revenge, or organised religion, or .....
haha
<--- load of bilgewater.
Im remembering back to the late 60's early 70''s when everyone had a "cause". Protests all over the place. It was just popular to buck the system then. But eventually everyone grew up and had to make a living. I don't know of any system without flaws. The biggest one, human instincts.
In Canada democracy is a mirage. The TPP agreement proves that. Canadians are now subject to hidden government by corporate cabal.
Well, not so hidden.
huh?
Which is why there will be wars from now until some great distance into the future.
In our world of abundance and rule of law, war seems futile until someone tries to take away our abundance and replace our rule of law.
The majority of wars, that we have been involved in, over the last 100 years or more have had nothing to do with that.
Sometimes war is inevitable like WWII. It ended up a Total War which meant both
sides took social license and even attacked civilian targets only one side was
prosecuted for war crimes. Vietnam was a war that did not need to happen as the
events prior could have solved the issue.
At the end WWII Indochina was given back to the French a huge mistake. Had that
not happened I don't think it would have seen Communist domination. The French
lost at Dien Bien Phu in 1956 that is when the west decided to go in to help the
south and the nation split. People didn't want Communism they wanted freedom
This is the type of conflict that repeated itself in Iraq.
Iraq was a dictatorship but it was preferable to alternatives and by the look of it
democracy is not really accepted and has not done the people much good because
most have no embraced it and won't until more education and infrastructure ensures
a societal view of things
sides took social license and even attacked civilian targets only one side was
prosecuted for war crimes. Vietnam was a war that did not need to happen as the
events prior could have solved the issue.
At the end WWII Indochina was given back to the French a huge mistake. Had that
not happened I don't think it would have seen Communist domination. The French
lost at Dien Bien Phu in 1956 that is when the west decided to go in to help the
south and the nation split. People didn't want Communism they wanted freedom
This is the type of conflict that repeated itself in Iraq.
Iraq was a dictatorship but it was preferable to alternatives and by the look of it
democracy is not really accepted and has not done the people much good because
most have no embraced it and won't until more education and infrastructure ensures
a societal view of things