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There is no such thing as a good war or a bad war. War is like a tear in the fabric of our co-existence. Do you know how much it would cost each of us for stitching it up and make it all work again? Hidden costs of any war and disasters, natural or otherwise are incalculable. Those who initiate war think of all those material gains for a particular group, sect or nation. What they do not take into account is that big difference would make the past impresses on the present with the factor of uncertainty thrown in. It will make every prediction or calculation of the interested parties wide off the mark. Energy level of one Lebanese or an Israeli could tip the balance.
Precious energy of the common man young or old, is appropriated by them( the specious excuse may be war effort and the like. ) Nevertheless energy of all is drawn in as a matter of course. What these war-mongers do not realize they are the victims of a sting-operation set up by Nature: war is one way of redistributing levels of energy by which existing balance of power, political systems, social structure are adjusted, with the same inevitability of geographical borders that are redrawn.
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‘Children ought to be seen and not heard’ was formerly accepted as a wise counsel. In a society that equated greyness as maturity and folly with the young, such counsel belied wisdom of the past.
20th century showed of what worth was the rule of conventional wisdom. Two Great Wars of which only the old had any interest, brought their hold come crashing down: it was natural the youth ask themselves: ‘What makes the old ( who reached the end of the road) think they know better than us?’
Selfinterest in the old and idealism of the young shall never agree. Such a realization caused great unrest in the sixties and Seventies and in the ensuing trouble the old order changed beyond repair.
Gerontocracy was a thing of the past.
benny