Each war is the war to end all wars.
There is a pause, but then
It all begins again.
True.
What ideas can you think of that might slow the wheel or reduce the damage it causes as it revolves?
(That's not a flippant question; I do mean it as a serious one.)
Well I don't know. But Steve Pinker's book 'The Better Angels of Our Nature' makes quite a reasonable case that whatever we might think violence is relatively less common now than in the past, so maybe there are grounds for cautious hope.
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True.
Countering the Wheel of War
What ideas can you think of that might slow the wheel or reduce the damage it causes as it revolves?
(That's not a flippant question; I do mean it as a serious one.)
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Well I don't know. But Steve Pinker's book 'The Better Angels of Our Nature' makes quite a reasonable case that whatever we might think violence is relatively less common now than in the past, so maybe there are grounds for cautious hope.