Reply To: General thought on old coal mines.

[Rezwan]

Phil’s Dad wrote:

War is not “the natural state” by any measure and I don’t know why you are so happy to claim that.

Where did I say I was happy about it?
Text and subtext.

Probably it was this: your speed to seize on Aaron’s depressing quote as “a better way of expressing” it implied joy and delight at having been proved right, rather than unhappiness about such an alleged natural state of things.

And in this post, you only want to know where you let slip you were happy about it. You have yet to question or counter your assertion. By holding on to it, it’s like you want to normalize it. If you want to normalize it, that suggests you’re happy about it.

But I could be wrong.

But come on. “War is the natural state.”????? Ridiculous. It’s like saying “Rape is the natural state.” The natural state of what?

The natural state. Are bombs raining over your head right now? Are you being raped? Call 911.

Or how about: “Lightning is the natural state.” What does that mean? Lightning occurs in nature, true. At any given moment, somewhere on the planet, there is some lightning. Yet, for most of this year – I have hardly encountered any lightning. And even though it occurs from time to time, we’ve figured out that if you place handy lightning rods, you can pretty much avoid the damage they cause.

And that’s a pure, regularly occuring force of nature. Not something that’s a combo of biology and artifice. The lightning is mindless. Wars are initiated by people with minds, and property, and we must find a way to sue the hell out of them and otherwise devise a lightning rod for war. Take those warmongers and ground them. Discharge their stupidity into the ground.

Not that it happens all the time.

The irony is you say you want to keep the videos “positive”! What’s wrong with the video showing oil spills (the natural state of oil extraction accidents, certainly) and wars for oil (war being the natural state, after all)? It has a happy ending. And it strikes me as far less negative than your continued assertions about war.