At the Battle of Waterloo the British artillery had the opportunity to fire directly at Napoleon Bonaparte, but the action was stopped by the Duke of Wellington. “No, no; I won’t have it. It is not the business of commanders to be firing upon one another”.
Now, of course, we have a bomb-first-think-later mentality.
Or perhaps we have no mentality at all.
I have to apologise I'm obsessed with history and it's connections and disconnections.
We are living in times when our fearless leaders are determined to demonstrate quite how ignorant they are.
@Spoon No disagreement here. This stone has a lot of facets and when our observations differ, we're looking at different sides.
I admire your obsession and wish I shared it. Unfortunately I'm the product of a US public education. My partner is fascinated by Japanese history.
Such an interesting point.
From (a long way) outside the US there is much that seems very really chaotic and actually counterproductive particularly health and education.
I had a classical education which provided me with the intellectual tools I needed to learn.
I'm mostly stuck in Homeric classical Greece - form my sins I suppose.
Nearly Normal (=>÷)
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