Apocalyptic Survival Fiction: Count Down - The Concise Epitaph of Humanity (A Sci-Fi End-of-the-World Story) (A Dystopian Series) by Watson Oscar

Author:Watson, Oscar [Watson, Oscar]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-08-25T22:00:00+00:00

Five – Outline Some of the Good Reasons for War.

At last we come down to what I expected would be your first question since our science fiction, and indeed dramatic fiction of all kinds tend to circle the drain on this topic.

Indeed, your first few questions seemed almost to ask for our technological progression, and warfare, the intended and strident act of breaking things and killing people might, to an external observer like yourself, seem our favorite pastime and our hotbed of creativity. While necessity is the mother of invention, as our saying goes, the winds of war breed chaos and distrust, not advancement and coherence. We are animalistic, which means that in our early ascendency, we did use warfare and war-making as tools to grow societally, to assimilate cultural diversity through assumption of command, but over the millennia we began to see that other methods might be, and indeed were, more effective, more efficient, and would over time result in the reduction of, and we hoped, eventually the elimination of warfare altogether.

That you are asking for reasons, a term that suggests a commonality of philosophical terms, is another example of either a clever reach from you to glean deeper responses, or perhaps an acknowledgment that your processes are less arbitrary and more directed than they seemed to be. My compliments; your order of inquest has risen from a contemptible series of time-wasting diatribes to a serious discussion of the merit of human existence. Let’s pursue this question in earnest.

War, the physical engagement between men of divergent views and beliefs in which one must win, and the other lose, rarely is as simple as that sounds. For the most part, it is fairly rare when two or more humans agree on more than a very few topics. But it is common for us to have particular issues we find objectionable, and in those cases, it is easier to get us to combine forces to end something we don’t like, rather than try to enforce something only a few do.

For most cases, the use of armed conflict has been to substantiate claims to physical property, to restrict objectionable policies by oppressors and tyrants, or to liberate those held in thrall either through revolution or externalized overthrow. Quite often, one side or the other invokes the will of their particular god, and sometimes both sides claim the same god to be behind them! Ultimately, the battles that are the most compelling are those where small numbers of aggressors somehow gain the advantage and snatch victory from the jaws of what seemed to be imminent defeat.

Funny, that same allegory could be presented for this very exercise. As you have presented it, the overwhelming odds are in your favor. You control the variables. I have a limited number of words to use to build our strategy, our defense. Our success will be, as those masterful victories at Agincourt and Beersheba, and the liberation of Kuwait, all about how effective the individual is, and how unprepared the enemy is, in the face of superior strategy.

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