Thursday, June 21, 2007
Haunting History
Morality aside, the counterculture message of the 1960s world social revolution -- that the brutally violent culture of militarism is an exercise in collective suicide -- is no less true today than when it was popularized by hippies, feminists, black and American Indian activists. No matter how much our mythologies glorify the scorched-earth policies executed by Generals Washington, Spaatz, and Westmoreland, the super-violence of biological, chemical, and nuclear warfare is coming back to haunt us.
Brutality begets brutality, as they say, and given the lethality of these weapons of mass destruction, it is only a matter of time before they are turned back against us. What goes around comes around.
So, in the end, we have two choices: escalate the violence in a spiral of global doom and destruction, or change our way of life--our entire way of life.
Brutality begets brutality, as they say, and given the lethality of these weapons of mass destruction, it is only a matter of time before they are turned back against us. What goes around comes around.
So, in the end, we have two choices: escalate the violence in a spiral of global doom and destruction, or change our way of life--our entire way of life.
