Someone - I think it was Arthur Koestler - once remarked that homo sapiens was the only species that gathered together and then fought other members of the same species. Recent observations have proved him wrong but all the same we are pretty odd. What a truly insane thing it is to do to leave your home, put on a uniform, obey orders and try to kill complete strangers with whom you have no personal quarrel. And yet when ordered thousands upon thousands of human beings do just that.
Reading about the two world wars of the last cezntury, I find I can only take in small doses the tales of death and destruction before I have had enough for the day. And how soon we forget. At Passchandale in 1917 the British suffered 300,000 casualities. Never mind because the Germans lost 400,000 men. Victory does not come cheap. There is obviously something wrong with our make-up. Perhaps it is nature's way of population control. If so we are due for another big one soon.
In lighter vein I see that the horrible Huhn, who loves wind farms and pooh-poohs shale gas, is still being investigagted by the Essex police about his ex-wife's allegations of perverting the course of justice. I also discover, thanks to google, that he is worth £3.5 million and got a first at Oxford in PPE. Does everybody get a first in this subject? Oh well, he cheated on his wife so he may be cheating on us too.
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