Guys, I'm trying to find (without much luck) any of the posts that were made here a few weeks back concerning US military psy-ops units. It was a recruiting video using an old 1930s looking cartoon, as I recall. Now I can't find it. Anyone know the military unit involved? Need it for a piece I'm writing.
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Good points. I wonder (and this is a huge speculation, I know) if following two back to back world wars with combined dead exceeding 100 million, and the mass deaths of millions more in proxy wars.... I wonder if there is now an aversion to such massive multi-million deaths such that the armies of the world now resort to capturing the minds of the opposing side rather than destroying the bodies?
I know that sounds like a Pollyanna view, but just wondering if that's even possible.
On the other hand, I know that some psychopaths (of whom we have way too many occupying seats of power) would gladly kill off BILLIONS of people to get more power.
I think it's more about resource allocation: once you have the tools, it's the superior weapon.
... Kind of like how keeping a cattle ranch is easier than constantly hunting buffalo. It seems less violent, but really it's just more convenient. Q told us they think that way.
In a similar vein, the invention of agriculture replaced hunting and gathering and a nomadic lifestyle. Instead of chasing naturally occurring crops from season to season, or trailing herds of bison or deer, mankind could settle down to farming in one place, raise a large crop and have livestock, harvest in the fall, sell surplus crops to others, have enough to live through the winter, and settle down into one place. It may have given rise to civilization as we know it.
Yeah, lots more efficient. But still, there's something wrong about the whole concept of optimizing nature: monoculture, roundup-ready crops, and clearcutting. It's a paradox of existing.
A lot depends on whether you're performing the harvesting, or being subjected to it. We can choose which flock we join, and if we don't choose we easily end up in the wrong paddock. Let's all pray God shows His hand soon. Holy Spirit > mind > worldly matter.
Amen to that, Mr. A. But as to optimizing nature, over the years I've come to the conclusion (after studying anthropology and history as electives at a university) and by just observing my fellow man, that basically humans are lazy, and probably all technological advances in our history has been to make life and work easier. Few of us could farm like they did in 1800 or even 1900, but few of those 1800-1900 farmers would have chosen hunting-gathering to survive.
I suspect that laziness -- seeking the easier way to do things -- has driven civilization t this point.