Mission
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ, the Prussian general and theorist of war, is much-quoted and his most famous dictum is—“war is the continuation of politics with other means”.
If war is politics by other means, then
the deeper cause of war is politicians doing what they do, which is attempting
to increase popularity and then stay in power. As power ultimately comes from
the people, either as voters or supporting armies, citizens
are the fundamental cause of wars, by their approval or passiveness of their leaders actions.
If an anti war culture could be promoted and embraced by all the peoples of the world, then leaders would lose popularity when promoting conflict. Thus, war would fizzle out and be consigned to history. To this end I have written the statement below, which I think should be promoted as much as possible -
“I cannot celebrate victory, all war is tragedy. Everyone must understand that war is a primitive, backward, base activity that is carried out by people who are unintelligent and using out of date philosophies. War mongers are people who do not have the skills to solve their problems respectfully by normal political means ie negotiation and compromise. They can only achieve their goals by conning others to use violence by threats and lies and so are not fit to lead. War only spreads destruction, desolation; pain and misery. All citizens of the world, have a selfless duty, not to hide from the horrors of our past, but to stand together against such cowards and fools. We should all unite to consign war to the history books and keep war out of our present and humanity’s future”.
Armour
Yesterday, I went for an enjoyable walk in the Peak District which was enlivened by a mid day heavy down pour. Shortly after the rain, I saw a group of people, who despite the glorious beauty around them, were paying more attention to their smart phones, which were, no doubt, the latest models. They weren’t talking to each other, but seemed happy staring at their small, colourful, flickering screens. However, they were drenched, soaked to the skin, even though they had more computing power in their hands, than existed in the world 50 years ago.
It would appear you can’t get smart umbrellas.
I wish they would look up from their phones, see the real world and start thinking about what they could do to improve it. Smart phones are nothing without smart brains.
