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Midge Decter
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Thursday, May 5, 2011
Change
Change is hard for people to accept. Someone, in another forum, wrote:
My favorite example of this is when upon seeing his first catapult being used in war (circa 450 B.C.) Spartan King Archidamus cried "man's valor is dead!"
Regards — Cliff
3 comments:
Anonymous
said...
I hope that this is not a lede for the sequel to "hope and change."
Having been a skinny kid growing up, it's easy to recognize the hypocrisy of a brawn-biased combatant confronted by a more brain-oriented opponent. The only problem for the world is that brain-oriented warfare is so much more powerful.
Why is it that a man's valor is always judged by performance in warfare? Why do we need to demonstrate our proficiency at killing one another in order to be "valorous?"
Sadly however, Douglas MacArthur was prophetic and correct when he intoned at West Point that "only the dead have seen the end of war."
Man has not risen above the animals in this regard, in fact, we may be more brutal.
3 comments:
I hope that this is not a lede for the sequel to "hope and change."
Having been a skinny kid growing up, it's easy to recognize the hypocrisy of a brawn-biased combatant confronted by a more brain-oriented opponent. The only problem for the world is that brain-oriented warfare is so much more powerful.
Why is it that a man's valor is always judged by performance in warfare? Why do we need to demonstrate our proficiency at killing one another in order to be "valorous?"
Sadly however, Douglas MacArthur was prophetic and correct when he intoned at West Point that "only the dead have seen the end of war."
Man has not risen above the animals in this regard, in fact, we may be more brutal.
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