Of man’s achievements, there are many worth celebrating, worth memorializing.  Warfare is not among them. Humanity has not been bettered by war, the spoils of which have been taken by the States, Churches, Tyrants, and Thieves who have convinced ordinary men to be extraordinarily evil.  About this, I am absolutely certain.

This cabal (by whatever name you call it) has most definitely profited from centuries of war, and they see more profit in its preponderance—else humanity would have long-since erased the practice from the minds of men. Sadly, it is the efforts of these men and women, no matter how well intended, or how poorly misguided, have contributed substantially to human suffering. Humanity at large is always the victim in war.

Some say that they knew what they were doing. I disagree.  The only reason these men and women fought, is because they did not know what they were doing.  Millions of men and women who fought and died “for their country” over the last century or two (and for their gods, prior) were lied to.  Even though they were instrumental in the “success” of the System—that is, in making the world a worse place for just about everyone in it—very few, if any of them fought (or died) explicitly to for these terrible conditions, despite the fact that their fighting nevertheless achieved them.

They were pawns and patsies, fodder for cannons, collateral damage and sacrificial lambs.

Which is not to say I hold them blameless. It is the unwillingness to examine critically the morality of one’s own actions, the ignorance which is to be admonished. The rationalization of what we all understand to be crimes, which is deplorable.

The real war, and the only one worth fighting, is for the minds of men. When man questions the orders to fight, given down to him by nameless leaders, when he resists any establishment, any institution which contributes to violence and suffering, when he realizes that cooperation—not combat—is the only path to achieving freedom and happiness, then and only then might that war be won.

That humanity has failed to eradicate its basest, most evil, most inhuman trait even centuries after the so-called enlightenmenet, is evidence of how long and challenging is the battle ahead.