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Originally Posted by T@T
Talking to a retired military guy today he thinks it'll take a world war to reset society and sees no other way, when you look at it there seems to be nothing positive on a world scale happening.
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There are a lot of positive things happening on a world scale. It's just that our brains are set up to see things differently.
To the idea that a world war will cure what ails us, that is exactly what they said before 'The War to End All Wars', WW1. Many many great thinkers and popular literary figures beat the drums of war leading up to Ferdinand's assassination. They claimed that Europe needed a purifying fire/great sweeping. The character Sherlock Holmes said "a better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared".
What did happen when the storm cleared? It sowed bitter resentment that lead to the rise of Hitler, genocides, the rise of Lenin, not to mention the destruction and death from fighting both world wars.
War will cause more problems than it solves.