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Why Is War Inevitable

Ian R Thorpe
11 February, 2013

Some say if women ruled the world there would be peace. Bouddica, Queen
of The Iceni might disagree.

blog people who think for themselves and express opinions of their own rather than
about as welcome as a fart in a space capsule.
interview and began like this:

Read full article (it's very boring but I have to offer the link)
past if everybody in the world will just change their consciousness." Here is his final
"I mention somewhere in the book and would like this to be discussed among
all those sorts of things. "
The conclusion then is unbelievably naive as are all those hippy dippy sacred
just ..."

It's a pipe dream and few people will have much trouble guessing what the pipe these
people suck on is filled with.
nurtured in the wrong way.
claim war can be abolished have any rational arguments to support their case or are
they as full of crap as the guy above? Can we really abolish conflict if everybody
would just join hands and sing Kumbaya? Are there people out there so detached
from reality they thinks solutions to eternal problems are that simple? When I raised
these points in the thread I mentioned I was subjected to hate attacks from peace
loving hippies that would have made a neo Nazi thug look quite reasonable.
Political theorists, constructivists and social scientists have given us some
an understanding of human nature.

Singing Kumbaya

Here's a snippet from an article by Alice L Mayer
Einsteins letter contained a statement that I kept reading over and over throughout
the course of the day. He wrote, Is it possible to control mans mental evolution so
it is rather the so-called intelligentsia that is most apt to yield to these disastrous
but encounters it in its easiest, synthetic form upon the printed page.
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goes ...
A: Only one but first the lightbulb must want
to change.
For an individual to change their consciousness is
relatively simple once the mind is set on doing so.
To abolish war however would require everybody
in the world to change their consciousness, to set The genius of the lamp
aside self interest and start living for the wider
community and that is a very different matter. And on top of that everybody would
have to change to the same thing, a collectivist (or perhaps atns nest) mentality. An
part of abolishing war is getting everybody to want to do it so much they will give up
freedom and individualism.
Sheeple are the most easy people to manage but the least likely to change their
crowd thus they are easily manipulated by media campaigns orchestrated by
anything, they'd abolish it."
Realist assumptions about humans, from Hobbes to Spinoza to Machiavelli share
In Politics Among Nations Hans Morganthau says "it is man's 'ineradicable' lust
consciousness and what is bad.
Orwell and Huxley took different views of
this, Orwell's brutal tyranny embraced the idea
that "Freedom is slavery, war is peace, Ignorance
is strength," while the regime that controlled
Huxley's Brave New World was a suffocatingly
matriarchal Nanny State that nurtured her
subjects from cradle to grave and demanded in
return only absolute, unthinking obedience.
Power, the most addictive and potent drug of
all then is what motivates those who rise to
War Is Peace, 1984 - George Orwell
leadership. Now we are getting somewhere in
The technique is as old as civilisation itself.
But we have to face it, if we let the weak, wussy singer of Kumbaya, the hippy
dippy dreamers with their notions of love and peace and everybody caring and
sharing in a world where everything is free coutesy of big government, what chance
would our societies have when a bunch of bastards from a less privileged part of the
world decided they wanted what we had and were determined to take it?
Unlike realists, idealists believe in the optimistic definition of man being

cuddly Maoism Not so cuddly Maoism

once said, poets are fools and dreamers.
Based on the logic of education, several approaches within the behavioural
international politics. According to psychologists like James Miller, Allport and
Cohen, these all assumed that improved social adjustment of individuals would
decrease feelings of frustration and insecurity thus reducing the likelihood of war.
Similarly, increased understanding amongst the people of the world meant increased
going to happen.
We in the developed world
might think of war in terms of
global or multi - national conflicts
like World Wars One and Two or
localised bloodbaths like Korea or
Vietnam but really war starts much
smaller, tribal conflicts of which
there are many currently going on
in African despite all the money
Gang war on the streets of London
the west has pumped into that
from the 1960s to 1990s or the Basque separatists have conducted in Spain, turf wars
aggression. Does a better understanding someone else's culture translate to increased
assumption about human nature is fixed. It is a given constant. No amount of
idealistic notions about education, establishing a common culture and the peace
bringing effects of everybody joining hands and singing Kumbiya being able to
Empire was always busy defending it's interests with military force.

Appeasement World War 2 style: UK Prime Appeasement War on terror style: UK

Minister Chamberlain accepts Hitler's demands Prime Minister Tony Blair moves in for the
and proclaims 'peace in our time. We all know what big kiss with tyrant Muammar Gaddafi
happened next.

groups, guerilla armies, dissidents and malcontents covertly back by rival
governments conduct wars by proxy against unpopular or hostile regimes and
technological warfare in cyberspace threatens to bring to a halt the national
by making themselves dependent on a single, deeply flawed technology.
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