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World War I holds a special horror and poignancy for me. This war was not only an endless nightmare for the soldiers in their pestilential trenches, it also violently ended the previous 100 years of glorious European civilization, one of mankind’s most noble achievements.
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It was a nightmare that seemed to go on and on and definitely led directly to WWII
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Capt Daniel Goodman
That both were nightmares, while I obviously agree with you, is, at least to me, secondary to the matter that both were, in point of fact, inexorable, necessary, and, I'm afraid, wholly unavoidable, both on a purely mathematical level, and as matters of historical retrospect, just mine own observation, of course...
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192955.The_Proud_Tower
If you've never read this, trust me, you'd find it germane, I think it's similar to The Guns of August, I'd been meaning to go through that as well at some point...here's the thing, OK? All wars are stupid, tragic, and, obviously, undesirable...however, that specific war was, unfortunately, unavoidable, there was no way it wasn't going to happen, period...human civilizations evolve sociologically at different rates, according to very definite and highly concrete mathematical laws, as does human technology...invariably, whenever a major war happens, concomittantly, human technology for warfare similarly advances, for the simple reason, as I'd once read in a novel, that human technology changes human morality...WW1 could never have been avoided, nor could WW2...WW1 happened, precisely because of the ebb and flow of European civilization, WW1 was the logical, necessary, and, as I'd said, unavoidable outcome of all of that development, however horrible it might be in retrospect...similarly, WW2 happened for analogous reasons, all the more amplified, for the simple reason that Germany, Japan, and Italy, all went through their Fascist period simultaneously, that was what caused all the grief...all societies, all, without exception, undergo Fascist-Communist phases, it's just that not all do at the same time, or to the same extent...read The Stages of Economic Growth, by Walter W. Rostow, the single best book on macroeconomics I've ever seen, he was in the JFK cabinet, his non-Communist manifesto basically got the whole theory pretty much right, I assure you, I've been over it and over it for years, and seen exactly the same process repeated over and over again, decade after decades, honest....
If you've never read this, trust me, you'd find it germane, I think it's similar to The Guns of August, I'd been meaning to go through that as well at some point...here's the thing, OK? All wars are stupid, tragic, and, obviously, undesirable...however, that specific war was, unfortunately, unavoidable, there was no way it wasn't going to happen, period...human civilizations evolve sociologically at different rates, according to very definite and highly concrete mathematical laws, as does human technology...invariably, whenever a major war happens, concomittantly, human technology for warfare similarly advances, for the simple reason, as I'd once read in a novel, that human technology changes human morality...WW1 could never have been avoided, nor could WW2...WW1 happened, precisely because of the ebb and flow of European civilization, WW1 was the logical, necessary, and, as I'd said, unavoidable outcome of all of that development, however horrible it might be in retrospect...similarly, WW2 happened for analogous reasons, all the more amplified, for the simple reason that Germany, Japan, and Italy, all went through their Fascist period simultaneously, that was what caused all the grief...all societies, all, without exception, undergo Fascist-Communist phases, it's just that not all do at the same time, or to the same extent...read The Stages of Economic Growth, by Walter W. Rostow, the single best book on macroeconomics I've ever seen, he was in the JFK cabinet, his non-Communist manifesto basically got the whole theory pretty much right, I assure you, I've been over it and over it for years, and seen exactly the same process repeated over and over again, decade after decades, honest....
During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few en...
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Capt Daniel Goodman
Trust me, they're really good books, if you ever get a chance to look at them, honest....
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