Other strange things have happened. During the early pandemic people in my neighborhood used to go outside and howl about 8 PM. I think it was fairly widespread in the US at least. It felt good to vent like that, but made no particular sense otherwise. Surely it didn’t happen without some kind of prompt. Maybe you could research it, find some kind of secret lever to influence mass behavior.
We loved it. My family is dog people, daughter's a biologist, and I got my degree at the Institute of Animal Behavior. Came natural to us, and I was really good at it. If I say so myself.
That was a lot of "THEDAYISCOMING" at the end, man. : )
Had to count it. 480+. Haha.
Pretty silly but I think it would have been cool. Three paragraphs. The first has 28 "THEDAYISCOMING". The second has 10 "THEDAYISCOMING" and the third has (20)23 "THEDAYISCOMING". To signify the date. : )
You're not the first person to wish for world peace. It's a nice idea, but as long as resources are finite and human desires are infinite, there will always be war.
Putin could be toppled, but by all accounts, by Russian standards, he is a moderate. Be careful what you wish for.
I don't find that convincing. Simply because war in the modern world very rarely leads to an improved condition for anyone, except financiers and guys like that. But when is the last time that a country as a whole actually profited from a war, actually gained anything that was worth the cost? So, scarcity is not causally connected to war. It is rather more often an effect.
Roger asked why didn't these men stop fighting, which is an excellent question. Ultimately the question is, why did they fight at all? Did they fight because they had hungry families and soldiering is a good living?(I miss daddy but these beans taste so much better than the PreWar beans did.) Did they fight because they thought that the increase in territory for their countries was worth it?(We're gonna go over this trench and a lot of us will die here today but it's worth it because if we win our country's GDP will go up by 13%.) Then what is the connection between scarcity and war?
What would you fight and die for? I am forty now. I almost signed up for the War on Terror after 9/11. I sort of halfway believed in it at the time. But mainly I thought about joining because I wanted to fly and it is crazy expensive to fly on your own. I mean it was hugely in the air, a lot of 19 year old boys were doing it and I was never much of a crowd follower but it was sort of in my mind that it was something that I should do. I don't really have a reason why I didn't, I just never took the initiative to contact a recruiter, I didn't have much initiative back then.
I would fight to defend my home. I would fight to defend my country. If someone had a credible way that fighting would help restore sovereignty to the American people and end the Empire of Lies and Forever Wars I might fight for them. But being part of an aggressive war seems unthinkable. One nice thing about being an American is the clarity. What I mean is, unless you are fighting on American soil you are pretty much an aggressor. The 'Big Brother over the Sea' routine is pretty played out. I think if your home was in the Old World it could be much more ambiguous if you were defending or invading. And I think that most of those boys fought feeling that they were defending their country or allies. They didn't stop fighting because they were reacting to an enemy that they were convinced would keep coming. Peace then requires a great act of faith-a unilateral disarmament in the face of an armed rival. That is what it will take for 'peace to break out', a nation state to collectively have the faith to disarm themselves.
failure is not a possibility - something will happen ;)
That’s the day after my wedding. Maybe I can work this into the ceremony somehow
too funny..that's actually the day of my wedding...I thought it would be cool to get married on the same time I ended a war with a meme lolll
wow! That’s hilarious. Congrats
you too man!
Other strange things have happened. During the early pandemic people in my neighborhood used to go outside and howl about 8 PM. I think it was fairly widespread in the US at least. It felt good to vent like that, but made no particular sense otherwise. Surely it didn’t happen without some kind of prompt. Maybe you could research it, find some kind of secret lever to influence mass behavior.
Interesting...it was definitely a thing, lots of articles about it - https://apnews.com/article/colorado-california-co-state-wire-lifestyle-neighborhoods-5f9c18b0003178b81b3858e6d52a6321
We loved it. My family is dog people, daughter's a biologist, and I got my degree at the Institute of Animal Behavior. Came natural to us, and I was really good at it. If I say so myself.
THE DAY IS COMING!
That was a lot of "THEDAYISCOMING" at the end, man. : )
Had to count it. 480+. Haha.
Pretty silly but I think it would have been cool. Three paragraphs. The first has 28 "THEDAYISCOMING". The second has 10 "THEDAYISCOMING" and the third has (20)23 "THEDAYISCOMING". To signify the date. : )
ahhh missed opportunity lol...
You're not the first person to wish for world peace. It's a nice idea, but as long as resources are finite and human desires are infinite, there will always be war.
Putin could be toppled, but by all accounts, by Russian standards, he is a moderate. Be careful what you wish for.
Thanks captain obvious...I really mean this: stop reading my blog. I hope you are cursed with everything I said and worse.
I don't find that convincing. Simply because war in the modern world very rarely leads to an improved condition for anyone, except financiers and guys like that. But when is the last time that a country as a whole actually profited from a war, actually gained anything that was worth the cost? So, scarcity is not causally connected to war. It is rather more often an effect.
Roger asked why didn't these men stop fighting, which is an excellent question. Ultimately the question is, why did they fight at all? Did they fight because they had hungry families and soldiering is a good living?(I miss daddy but these beans taste so much better than the PreWar beans did.) Did they fight because they thought that the increase in territory for their countries was worth it?(We're gonna go over this trench and a lot of us will die here today but it's worth it because if we win our country's GDP will go up by 13%.) Then what is the connection between scarcity and war?
What would you fight and die for? I am forty now. I almost signed up for the War on Terror after 9/11. I sort of halfway believed in it at the time. But mainly I thought about joining because I wanted to fly and it is crazy expensive to fly on your own. I mean it was hugely in the air, a lot of 19 year old boys were doing it and I was never much of a crowd follower but it was sort of in my mind that it was something that I should do. I don't really have a reason why I didn't, I just never took the initiative to contact a recruiter, I didn't have much initiative back then.
I would fight to defend my home. I would fight to defend my country. If someone had a credible way that fighting would help restore sovereignty to the American people and end the Empire of Lies and Forever Wars I might fight for them. But being part of an aggressive war seems unthinkable. One nice thing about being an American is the clarity. What I mean is, unless you are fighting on American soil you are pretty much an aggressor. The 'Big Brother over the Sea' routine is pretty played out. I think if your home was in the Old World it could be much more ambiguous if you were defending or invading. And I think that most of those boys fought feeling that they were defending their country or allies. They didn't stop fighting because they were reacting to an enemy that they were convinced would keep coming. Peace then requires a great act of faith-a unilateral disarmament in the face of an armed rival. That is what it will take for 'peace to break out', a nation state to collectively have the faith to disarm themselves.