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Scuba

(53,475 posts) Sat Oct 12, 2013, 08:15 AM Oct 2013

War is Absurd

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War is Absurd (Original Post) Scuba Oct 2013 OP

Yes, it's been an absurd enterprise for a couple hundred years, since it went industrial. bemildred Oct 2013 #1

war onethatcares Oct 2013 #2

Yeah, and there is that, the principle of military waste as a source of profit for the few, bemildred Oct 2013 #3

bemildred

(90,061 posts)

1. Yes, it's been an absurd enterprise for a couple hundred years, since it went industrial.

Reply to Scuba (Original post)

Sat Oct 12, 2013, 09:16 AM

Oct 2013

It just doesn't really pay anymore. But we hate to give it up. We like the illusions of power it gives us.

onethatcares

(16,185 posts)

2. war

Reply to Scuba (Original post)

Sat Oct 12, 2013, 09:56 AM

Oct 2013

it's what's for breakfast.

I'm in the midst of reading a Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn and he lays out how great the military/government

union works out so well for the industrialists. Afterall, when all the bridges, roads, and schools are built and repaired where is the profit?

bemildred

(90,061 posts)

3. Yeah, and there is that, the principle of military waste as a source of profit for the few,