Posted by Bob Adamcik | Jun 15, 2022 | History, Human Nature, Notes, Politics, War | 0 |
Russia’s unprovoked and ongoing invasion of Ukraine is a lesson on many levels. The innumerable interpretations by any number of experts, the news coverage of every slant, and the public reaction…all are informative...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Apr 14, 2020 | Evil, History, Human Nature, Notes, Politics, Search, War | 0 |
In the course of watching Ken Burns documentary on the Vietnam War, I learned something I still find difficult to believe. On the eve of the 1968 elections, Lyndon Johnson was furiously pushing through peace talks to end the...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | May 29, 2017 | Human Nature, Notes, Religion, Search, War | 1 |
I’m following news about the latest radical Islamist atrocity, this one in Manchester. And I see once again that most ubiquitous term of self-deception by our species: “Oh, the inhumanity…!”...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Nov 1, 2016 | History, Human Nature, Notes, Search, Tribalism, War | 1 |
This is the last of a trilogy of posts on death and destruction. Then we can move on to something serious… So, I spent the time since my last post reading War in Human Civilization, by Azar Gat. Gat is Ezer Weitzman...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Oct 5, 2016 | Death, History, Mortality, Notes, Search, Tribalism, War | 1 |
I’ve contemplated this follow-up post for a week or more now. My visit to Berlin has me wondering how to think about the massive numbers of war dead between 1915 and 1945. Finally, I decided to put it into perspective, so...
Read MoreI haven’t posted for the last several weeks because I’ve been drifting…northern France, various places in Holland, also Berlin and what used to be East Germany. Maybe I didn’t post because it was...
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