Violence

"It's said that science will dehumanize people and turn them into numbers. That's false, tragically false. Look for yourself. This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance, it was done by dogma, it was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave. This is what men do when they aspire to the knowledge of gods."

Jacob Bronowski, quoted above, asserts his view that the conception of organised violence, the genesis of war, occurred when nomadic tribesmen mastered the horse. Motivated by theft, these primitive cavalry targeted settled agrarian societies because their agricultural technology generated a coveted surplus of food. Conquest would inevitably be followed by assimilation into the target community. This all happened...*pheww*...AGES AGO PROBABLY!

WHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!




War is bad, so try not to do it.