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WAR OR PEACE?
I’ve pondered on a difficult question recently. It is this. If I had a choice between a world that had war, and one that had only peace, which would I choose? At first the answer seems obvious, but is it?
What would the world be like if there was no war, only peace? I’m reminded of Orsen Welles in The Third Man, where he pointed out all the wars caused by Germany – which gave so much art, music and philosophy.
Then he mentioned peaceful Switzerland, which gave us the cuchoo clock!
This is the problem – we are human, and we excel, because of passion. And as a coin has two sides, so does our passion.
So there we have it. Without the passion, the antagonism even, that leads to war, would we be able to carry on the ‘good’ – the brilliant – that is so much what it is all about to be human?
Maybe war is something we have to accept.
But it is so difficult to do so; so difficult to accept as inevitable. So is there another way – a way that can offer hope for the future of mankind?
I think, rather than attempting to banish war, we should instead attempt to further moderation. After all, it is when moderation goes that politics turns to warfare. So maybe that’s it. We need to learn how to be moderate. Because moderate people tend to be peaceful, but still have the capacity to excel with their passions.
© Anthony North, January 2008
CROWDED BRITAIN
Britain is about to overtake Holland and Belgium as the most crowded country in Europe. According to the Office for National Statistics there are now about 620 people per square mile …
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SHOCKING
So npower have hiked energy prices again. Gas goes up 17% and electric 12%, squeezing many in the UK dry. And it won’t be long before all the power companies go the same way. Oh boy, they really are treating us as fools …
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