2020: Day 3
Jan. 3rd, 2020 10:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smokingbootWorld War III is trending on Twitter, alongside 'Russia and China' and 'Franz Ferdinand.'
Do you know, I almost think people want it, they bang on about the next war so much. Certainly in the UK, there is this sentimentality about War and how it brings out the best in us, brings us together. They dream Went The Day Well?, they don't imagine Threads .
In another war we might all stop being angry with each other about Conservatives and Brexit and Trump and Greta Thunberg, we would all be united with one noble aim. Where is the obliging enemy? The EU is being rubbish at foedom, if only we had our own Thanos to fight! Forward to the Past a marching band of idiots who, unable to find interest in their own lives, quiver for the romance of ruin and rise, the pioneering spirit that will somehow be at once totally self-reliant, a law unto itself, and yet also a mainstay of community in the AftermathTM.
Anyhoo.
More dreams of a great garden, my mother cutting lilies off the stems in the grass. I asked her why and though she gave an explanation she clearly considered rational, I didn't understand it. She was gesturing to their colours, or their reflection on the ground, and this made no sense to me. The lilies were a dull orange/mustard colour, not like real lilies at all, I looked for pollen or anything that might be reflecting them, and for sure the ground was rust-like, but there was nothing more to it than that. I was travelling with a friend of mine (LG) who was most displeased by some guy copying him. He showed me a strange and complex series of messages online, I had no idea what he was talking about.
Theme: Me just not getting what is going on. Sounds about right.
Do you know, I almost think people want it, they bang on about the next war so much. Certainly in the UK, there is this sentimentality about War and how it brings out the best in us, brings us together. They dream Went The Day Well?, they don't imagine Threads .
In another war we might all stop being angry with each other about Conservatives and Brexit and Trump and Greta Thunberg, we would all be united with one noble aim. Where is the obliging enemy? The EU is being rubbish at foedom, if only we had our own Thanos to fight! Forward to the Past a marching band of idiots who, unable to find interest in their own lives, quiver for the romance of ruin and rise, the pioneering spirit that will somehow be at once totally self-reliant, a law unto itself, and yet also a mainstay of community in the AftermathTM.
Anyhoo.
More dreams of a great garden, my mother cutting lilies off the stems in the grass. I asked her why and though she gave an explanation she clearly considered rational, I didn't understand it. She was gesturing to their colours, or their reflection on the ground, and this made no sense to me. The lilies were a dull orange/mustard colour, not like real lilies at all, I looked for pollen or anything that might be reflecting them, and for sure the ground was rust-like, but there was nothing more to it than that. I was travelling with a friend of mine (LG) who was most displeased by some guy copying him. He showed me a strange and complex series of messages online, I had no idea what he was talking about.
Theme: Me just not getting what is going on. Sounds about right.
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Date: 2020-01-05 02:21 pm (UTC)One of the reasons I am a supporter of the EU is because it rose out of desire to make trade rather than war the default, after a period of conflict that was ruinous for most inhabitants of the continent. It didn't entirely succeed across the whole of Europe, but notably within the bloc, conflict was subdued.
Britain's view of war is very different, based I think, not just through being on the winning side, but also on remaining unoccupied for centuries. However deadly, however dangerous, it makes for a very different attitude to war; always someone else's back yard.
When some twit from our Defence tried it on with Russia a few years back, the reponse they got was that Russia could carpet bomb the UK in an afternoon. I dont know how true that is, but certainly think this is how the next war would go; boots on the ground would be completely unnecessary unless occupation and resource accumulation was the point. If obliteration was the point, the war would be over very quickly.
The American cultural attitude to war is, I think, different, though again it's been a long time since there was need for a home front. But then I don't know the extent to which Americans see 9/11 as an act of war as opposed to an act of terrorism, if there is any real difference.
I agree about Climate Change being more likely as the extinction event.