[lit-ideas] The Effects of Reading Military History
- From: Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:47:58 -0500
>>This is America. It's still America.
Maybe Lawrence and David and other history readers
can comment on this.
Seems to me that reading even a little military
history reveals how stupid and venal, incompetent
and nasty, humans are. I mean, as opposed to
Barbara Tuchman historical overviews, military
history shows just how close to barbarity our
world is, how little anything has changed. Calling
it "the fog of war" is (except in a very
specialized sense) a misnomer, perhaps a form of
denial. Like imagining we're living in a Star Trek
world. Brutish from Sumer to now with no let up.
It's like we've always been in this fog and the
drunken Roman soldier kills Archimedes over and
over again, killed Archimedes yesterday, today,
and will kill Archimedes tomorrow.
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