To my mind, the meaningful steps in man's ascent are art, literature, music, science, invention, and philosophy. My history texts in lower education focused upon wars, empires, political thugs, alliances, battles, flags, crowns, bombs, assassinations, and conquests. Religion contributed execution, martyrdoms, and divine involvement in this edifying list, but is now woefully banned from our governmental schools. Besides, the former might violate governmentally approved criteria for entertaining the minds of a next generation non-violently. Those delightfully entertaining war-movies made for the government by Hollywood, calculated to arouse the previous generation's citizenry into paroxysms of international ethnic hatred and patriotic ferocity, seem never to go out of style.
Chickens come home to roost.
Shaw's cynical Devil claims convincingly that man's real heart is in his weapons. Marketing data of video games tend to confirm this hypothesis. Clearly, as I said before, something needs to be done. Instead, taking my cue from the final admonition to Candide, I went fishing, making my own peace with a calm and patient sea. Inc. Reposting permitted with this message intact.