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| 2015-05-08 |
| h/t Gates of Vienna War and violence displaced a record-breaking 38 million people within their home countries in 2014 -- a figure equivalent to the total population of London, New York and Beijing combined. Sixty per cent came from just five countries: Iraq, South Sudan, Syria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria. All have been wracked by war or the metastasising effects of jihadist violence. Don't bother us---we're busy battling microaggression. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 Bouts of peace, particularly expended periods, are far more 'unnatural'. According to Jerry Pournelle, I think, the idea of Peace is just an extrapolation from the fact that there were pauses between wars. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-05-08 14:59 |
| #1 The children (all too often in adult bodies) fail to grasp due to their fairytale upbringing is that war and conflict have been a 'natural' aspect of man and history. Bouts of peace, particularly expended periods, are far more 'unnatural'. Man, by his nature, is territorial and hierarchical. We are returning back to the natural state because we lack a ruling caste that grasps the concept that either you ride the tiger or the tiger eventually eats you. That means having to spend the resources, efforts, blood and capital to 'manage' it or you and your environment will be hostage to the changes. The children are in charge and the world burns. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-05-08 08:37 |