Two Things Worth Mentioning
1.) As if "the Long War" wasn't tragic enough: articles from war correspondants about the culture divide.
"There's no point in saying 'I told you so.' It won't bring back the dead. I guess every generation just has to learn the hard way that nothing good can ever come of violence, and no military solution will ever achieve what it claims to.
"Now before anyone mentions World War II I want to say that the Holocaust set a very bad historical precedent. As often as bad men come into power, I am convinced World War II was a fluke. Normally, both leaders in any war are villains, and their populations victims and pawns. It just so happened that Hitler was a winning combination of paranoid, megalomaniac and eugenecist, three traits which will not only always be considered evil, but which are unspeakably disastrous when combined.
"The problem with World War II is that it's become a contextual 'gun on the hip' ready to be pulled out to accuse anyone who is against you of being evil. People have use the Nazi comparison so many times in public discourse, they gave the act of making such a comparison its own name (see 'Godwin's Law')."
2.) "The Metro the other day claimed that Blogs are now 'officially out of style'. Sorry folks, I'm here to tell you all that you are no longer cool!
"Frankly, a diary is a diary. I never used this blog to its full potential as direct-to-customer editorial, and I've never gone too revealing. This of course means I occupy the middle no-man's land of mediocrity.
"Whatever. I'll still have this record in 20 years to chronicle the turbulent twenties of my life for my children."
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"So tell me, dear reader: Why do you still write in your blog?"
"There's no point in saying 'I told you so.' It won't bring back the dead. I guess every generation just has to learn the hard way that nothing good can ever come of violence, and no military solution will ever achieve what it claims to.
"Now before anyone mentions World War II I want to say that the Holocaust set a very bad historical precedent. As often as bad men come into power, I am convinced World War II was a fluke. Normally, both leaders in any war are villains, and their populations victims and pawns. It just so happened that Hitler was a winning combination of paranoid, megalomaniac and eugenecist, three traits which will not only always be considered evil, but which are unspeakably disastrous when combined.
"The problem with World War II is that it's become a contextual 'gun on the hip' ready to be pulled out to accuse anyone who is against you of being evil. People have use the Nazi comparison so many times in public discourse, they gave the act of making such a comparison its own name (see 'Godwin's Law')."
2.) "The Metro the other day claimed that Blogs are now 'officially out of style'. Sorry folks, I'm here to tell you all that you are no longer cool!
"Frankly, a diary is a diary. I never used this blog to its full potential as direct-to-customer editorial, and I've never gone too revealing. This of course means I occupy the middle no-man's land of mediocrity.
"Whatever. I'll still have this record in 20 years to chronicle the turbulent twenties of my life for my children."
...
"So tell me, dear reader: Why do you still write in your blog?"