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War in Europe

Journal by turgid

I'm worried, What happened to the lessons of the last century? I had a grandmother who lived through both world wars and lived to own and use a smartphone.

Much important history has faded from living memory. We mock, harass and intimidate our historians and philosophers.

We for get the optimism and courage of our parents' generation who stood up for civil rights, equality and social justice. We look the other way as hard-won rights are eroded. We sit idly by while we let tyrants exploit us and dismantle our democratic structures and rob us of our sustenance.

At times like these I turn to popular music for inspiration and wisdom. I would like to share one particular retrospectively enthusiastic piece I've recently discovered from more optimistic times and I'd like to think it hasn't been in vain quite yet. We are still the human race.

It's by Montrose (also a Scottish town) and is called Space Station #5 and goes like this:

Start, with the sun
And move on out
The future's in the skies above
The heavens unfold
And a new star is born
Space and time makin' love

Now, I'm sure that's the sort of thing Homer Simpson had on his 8 track in his car back in the day.

I don't care. It's much better than war.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Mojibake Tengu on Saturday February 12 2022, @04:05AM (6 children)

    by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Saturday February 12 2022, @04:05AM (#1220760) Journal

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XPzICHxXoQ [youtube.com]

    https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Sheldon-Allman/Crawl-Out-Through-the-Fallout [musixmatch.com]

    Seriously, it's all fun:

    “There is no way we were ever going to unite Ukraine. I mean, Iraq. Afghanistan!” Biden said in an interview with US broadcasting company NBC.

    Biden wasn’t the only American official who seemed to struggle grasping world geography on Thursday. On the same day, the US Permanent Representative to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield confused Crimea with Ukraine’s Donbass region, when apparently failing to understand the contents of the Minsk II treaty.

    These two slip-ups from the US coincide with a high-profile gaffe by British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, who, also on Thursday, confused the Russian regions of Voronezh and Rostov with areas of Ukraine, and told her Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov that London would never recognize Moscow’s sovereignty over these areas. According to reports, she was then allegedly corrected by Deborah Bronnert, the British ambassador.

    Well, with leaders like these, who needs enemies?

    I am completely prepped. Nothing more to prep. It's Fallout4 weekend then...

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 12 2022, @05:25PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 12 2022, @05:25PM (#1220787)

    We've always been our own worst enemies. Putting politicians in charge is a symptom of the disease, not the cause, but it could be much worse. We could be ruled by tyrants like Russia and China are. Representative democracy isn't a good system of government, just the best that anyone has been able to come up with.

    • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday February 12 2022, @07:14PM (1 child)

      by RS3 (6367) on Saturday February 12 2022, @07:14PM (#1220817)

      Great post, well stated. I'm not sure what the "disease" is- perhaps innate competitiveness?

      • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 12 2022, @10:08PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 12 2022, @10:08PM (#1220863)

        Competitiveness is fine as long as it motivates you to become better or improve your lot in life. The problems come when you try to make others have less, which always comes down to greed and is ultimately self destructive. Take Putin for example: Instead of building Russia up so that it (and by extension himself) becomes wealthy, he is running out of things to steal so he needs to loot his neighbours to keep the gravy train going that keeps him in power. The end game is another economic collapse like the one that brought down the Soviet Union, and all of the misery that goes with it.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 12 2022, @10:08PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 12 2022, @10:08PM (#1220862)

      Heh, if you can't rule it all, then destroy it all.

    • (Score: 2, Touché) by khallow on Saturday February 12 2022, @11:49PM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday February 12 2022, @11:49PM (#1220882) Journal

      Putting politicians in charge is a symptom of the disease, not the cause, but it could be much worse.

      Put anyone in charge, that is a political office, then they become a politician by definition. You can't escape your semantic shadow.

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 12 2022, @06:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 12 2022, @06:14PM (#1220800)

    Well, with leaders like these, who needs enemies?

    Send them Mammoth hunting in Yakutia! [LAUGHS IN STALIN]