Thank you Belated, great comment. And never worry about being insulting—considering what we’ve done to this world, insult should be the least if our worries. I do want to add one thought to your thoughts tho—I know that Americans are as dumb as a box of hair, but really, if you look at the past 50 years, it’s the “smartest men in the room” that got us here. Plus, West Point grads—the boys who chase after the medals that a good little war will get them—are very well educated, especially in history. The Gallic Wars, the Punic Wars, Napoleon’s wars, Hitler’s wars (and propaganda) etc etc etc. So I’m not so convinced that it’s smart people who avoid wars. And if you look at admirable revolutions over the centuries, it’s Ghandi who lead a bunch of marginalized, uneducated servant class people to passively aggress against a huge empire and get rid of them. It was Dr. King who lead marginalized, poorly educated, oppressed people against the richest most corrupt country in the world and forced concessions from it that allowed black to get a little equity. So I’m not overly optimistic about an educated class being brave and just and fair and smart. I have my own ideas about how to achieve a fair and just society but they are long and very unorthodox, but they begin with undermining the Patriarchy at every opportunity, as in Lysistrata for instance! 😁🤭. And I see it in the young. It’s not a revolution, it’s an evolution and every awful thing in the world appears to be cooperating with that goal. Compassion is the best response, coupled with cooperation. And opps, there goes another $50 billion fighter jet that can’t fly, can’t be repaired and us the corner stone of America’s future “defense”. Ya kinda gotta laugh.
Thank you Belated, great comment. And never worry about being insulting—considering what we’ve done to this world, insult should be the least if our worries. I do want to add one thought to your thoughts tho—I know that Americans are as dumb as a box of hair, but really, if you look at the past 50 years, it’s the “smartest men in the room” that got us here. Plus, West Point grads—the boys who chase after the medals that a good little war will get them—are very well educated, especially in history. The Gallic Wars, the Punic Wars, Napoleon’s wars, Hitler’s wars (and propaganda) etc etc etc. So I’m not so convinced that it’s smart people who avoid wars. And if you look at admirable revolutions over the centuries, it’s Ghandi who lead a bunch of marginalized, uneducated servant class people to passively aggress against a huge empire and get rid of them. It was Dr. King who lead marginalized, poorly educated, oppressed people against the richest most corrupt country in the world and forced concessions from it that allowed black to get a little equity. So I’m not overly optimistic about an educated class being brave and just and fair and smart. I have my own ideas about how to achieve a fair and just society but they are long and very unorthodox, but they begin with undermining the Patriarchy at every opportunity, as in Lysistrata for instance! 😁🤭. And I see it in the young. It’s not a revolution, it’s an evolution and every awful thing in the world appears to be cooperating with that goal. Compassion is the best response, coupled with cooperation. And opps, there goes another $50 billion fighter jet that can’t fly, can’t be repaired and us the corner stone of America’s future “defense”. Ya kinda gotta laugh.
Not Belated!!! Bela! I hate spellcheck!