Quote Originally Posted by Centurion1 View Post
It is ominous for the future when people become completely immune to the pervading sense of doom that used to accompany war.
Pre-modern War - "WAAAAARGGH! Let's kill us some humiez 'not-us's, boyz!" Agrarians: "Aww, go ahead and take the food - again. You bullies. AHHH, NO, WAIT, YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO THIS! YOU NEEEED MEEEEEEE urrggkk...chchch...

Early Modern War - "Kill the Huegenots!" "Kill the Papists!" "Kill the heathens!" "Hang those bloody rebels!"

WW1 - "Make me a sammich, woman: the war's on. All bets are on the home team."

WW2 - "What, this again? Hey, let's breakdance!"

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Korean War - "Who cares?"

European Colonial Wars - "Alright, that's enough."

Vietnam - "Um...WAR, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR, ABSOLUTELY NO-THING, HEUGH, WAR! Yea-yea-yea-yea...

Late 20th Century Interventions - " This ain't so bad. Woohoo, America wins! FOREVER.

Iraq & Afghanistan - "Yeah, git those turbanned terrorists! PEW PEW PEW"

The Next War - "All meatbags must be terminated."

Quote Originally Posted by ACIN
I don't think people in any era have realized the doom that war brings until their relatives/husband went off or until some sort of bomb/explosive set off near by their house. Every citizen has to see and feel the carnage with their own senses before they realize what it really is like. During times of peace however, this never happens, so the collective naturally becomes more willing to go to war after a decade or two at peace because they forget and new citizens never learned it to begin with. This isn't something that can really be helped. Human psychology is such that we make mistakes over and over again because we like to push out the bad feelings associated with some knowledge we have acquired. It seems to me like being unaware of the carnage of war is this psychological practice on a nationwide scale.
As the entrepeneur Clark Blaine once said, "History doesn't repeat - but humans sure do."