Guernica is Pablo Picasso’s interpretation of war. It was painted in response to the bombing of civilians during the Spanish Civil War. It is black, white, and gray but perhaps it should be red like blood and green like money – these are the real colors of war. All countries, but particularly America, glorify war. In America it has become a video game where death is not real and winning is penultimate. There are no good wars! Sure you can justify some of them, like WWII but there was no nobility in our participation – we needed to boost the economy and pry ourselves loose from the Depression and it worked, and it only cost a few million lives. Ask anyone who fought in that war if it was good. George W. Bush, a life long failure at everything, even managed to wreck the economy while fighting 2 wars. Perhaps his friends at Halliburton were a bit too greedy and the benefits of war didn’t trickle down to the rest of us. My God, even Viet Nam turned a profit. I am a child of the Fifties, a boomer. We were taught that the world was a wondrous place, that our superior technology and intelligence would free us from the horrors of war and the drudgery of work. Where are the hover cars, the milk and honey, the world at peace? Is it really just about greed? Are we forever condemned to repeat the past? America must change or it will die (Rome comes to mind) but this isn’t the 18th century, a few tea parties will not free us from oppression. We are rapidly becoming too dumb to deserve democracy. What will save America, if anything, is intelligence, education and dreams. We the people have to be prepared to save ourselves despite the government, the corporations, the radical fringe. How do we do this? I haven’t a clue. The tenets of Christianity, love thy neighbor, etc. (unless he’s brown) haven’t worked, the wisdom of the ages hasn’t worked, the good intentions of good men have not worked. Perhaps we need a war, one that will obliterate all of mankind, so we can climb out of the primordial sludge and start all over again but I fear Darwin’s theory (reality) of the survival of the fittest will again rear its ugly head and war will reemerge as the only thing all men have in common. Unless…….
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Guernica is Pablo Picasso’s interpretation of war. It was painted in response to the bombing of civilians during the Spanish Civil War. It is black, white, and gray but perhaps it should be red like blood and green like money – these are the real colors of war. All countries, but particularly America, glorify war. In America it has become a video game where death is not real and winning is penultimate. There are no good wars! Sure you can justify some of them, like WWII but there was no nobility in our participation – we needed to boost the economy and pry ourselves loose from the Depression and it worked, and it only cost a few million lives. Ask anyone who fought in that war if it was good. George W. Bush, a life long failure at everything, even managed to wreck the economy while fighting 2 wars. Perhaps his friends at Halliburton were a bit too greedy and the benefits of war didn’t trickle down to the rest of us. My God, even Viet Nam turned a profit. I am a child of the Fifties, a boomer. We were taught that the world was a wondrous place, that our superior technology and intelligence would free us from the horrors of war and the drudgery of work. Where are the hover cars, the milk and honey, the world at peace? Is it really just about greed? Are we forever condemned to repeat the past? America must change or it will die (Rome comes to mind) but this isn’t the 18th century, a few tea parties will not free us from oppression. We are rapidly becoming too dumb to deserve democracy. What will save America, if anything, is intelligence, education and dreams. We the people have to be prepared to save ourselves despite the government, the corporations, the radical fringe. How do we do this? I haven’t a clue. The tenets of Christianity, love thy neighbor, etc. (unless he’s brown) haven’t worked, the wisdom of the ages hasn’t worked, the good intentions of good men have not worked. Perhaps we need a war, one that will obliterate all of mankind, so we can climb out of the primordial sludge and start all over again but I fear Darwin’s theory (reality) of the survival of the fittest will again rear its ugly head and war will reemerge as the only thing all men have in common. Unless…….
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