The Five Fingers Of Death

Here is a somewhat lengthy but brilliant essay which ties together many of the threads which have led us to where we are today:

Humanity is the creation of the cosmos, local and universal; in particular, the interactions between geography, climate, culture and human/nonhuman generated events. History is the reporting done to explain to current and future generations what human actors, individually or as a collective, were doing at some point in time. “Everything flows,” as Vasily Grossman, the author of a book of the same name, once said. History is not unlike the Nile River or the Mississippi River with dozens of tributaries, streams, and unseen aquifers affecting the main body of the river. In short every person, place or thing is connected in some fashion to the flow of life, of history. And each person will, at some point in a lifetime, be affected by what has taken place 10, 20 or 100 years ago.

Humanity has not learned much it seems. We have learned how to kill and communicate faster. We live longer but for what purpose? World War I began 100 years ago this August, 2014. World  War II ended just 70 years ago. The Cold War and those two World Wars are with us still.

http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/07/the-five-fingers-of-death/