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What has changed?

A powerful song written 43 years ago. Four decades, and still..... nothing has changed.

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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”

– Aldous Huxley, (1894-1963) philosopher and writer


By failing to comprehend the relationship of the past with the present, we run the risk of repeating history. Ignorance is bliss, some say, it can also be fatal.


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Somehow I've never heard this before.

What in particular sparked you to post this? There's a lot of tragedy right now. I can't keep up.
SparkleLeaf · 51-55, T
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This was written 70 years ago
@SparkleLeaf Imparting a bit of history through music and masking through humor the concept of the probable demise of mankind by our own hands.

Thank you for sharing😊
@therighttothink50 Huxley saw it coming. It is a horrifying possibility.....but then isn't that what some people's reality is at the present ? Humans have become destructive and weak and something has got to give. If we do not change things for the better, the annihilation of mankind and all living beings on this earth shall come to pass. We need to awaken before it's too late .
therighttothink50 · 56-60, M
@therighttothink50 In my humble opinion, Win, we can, without bloodshed. We should have progressed from the primitive cavemen days or the dark ages medeival battle mindset,centuries have passed and yet we haven't. We are still ignorant of the maximum potential our human minds are capable of reaching, resorting instead to the lowest and vilest of human behavior . Orwell and Huxley's fears were legitimate and I agree with both of them. There can't be too much or too little, but a middle ground. Freedom is when we are free of oppressors and able to live in harmony with one another.
NinaTina · 26-30, F
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@NinaTina Indeed,'' War is good for absolutely NOTHING''. The singer says too that there is a better way. That way is PEACE. War yields no benefits, but to those who start wars for the sole reason of greed, believe the opposite....that peace yields no benefit, the objective is to profit by force, as most wars in history have proven to be for this reason alone.

Unfortunately, the singer and others who dare speak the truth are silenced while tyrannical evildoers have free rein to say and do as they please, at the cost of many innocent lives.

Thank you for sharing this😊
therighttothink50 · 56-60, M
@therighttothink50 During the medieval period here in Europe, settlements were burned, people killed and women raped by invaders who wanted their lands, gain dominion over the people and steal whatever they wanted due to greed, to extend their territories and gain absolute power. That is still happening today in some parts of the world. I am anti-war but honest enough to admit I shall take up arms to defend my family if it is ever put at any risk of death, but only then.

The valiant men and women who died (and die) in wars should be commended for their bravery. I wonder too how many had no choice (whether they believe in that war or not). Sadly, they are not the only victims, the parents, wives and children are victims too, lives destroyed by wars because humans prefer to fight than settle their differences by using their intelligence to communicate and reach an agreement in a pacific way.

I don't agree with the last one. I believe God has nothing to do with the undertaking man takes upon himself when in war. This is my personal belief, God is a creator of all beautiful and positive things and evil is the destroyer of all things, a universe ruled by 2 opposing powerful forces. I am open enough to consider the possibility that they are limited to just that, one can only create and the other to only destroy. Yet humans easily condemn the creator for not stopping the destroyer...what if he can't? Does that make him any less of a creator of beautiful and positive things, such as life, the earth, the aimals, air, water, love , peace? Why don't people curse the evil destroyer ? They would easily mock a God who creates than mock a destroyer that kills, starts wars, fights,make humans mad with lust, fury and greed and envy. Why isn't that dark force cursed and condemned the way the God of believers is ? Proof, they say, without one, they can't believe. The faithless are blind, for proof is everywhere, if they only care to see. War is created by evil and we should be strong enough as the special beings that we are to not fall in its trap.

 
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