The memory of war put simply is the memory of the civilization, mostly those that have experienced war passing on their memories of the totality, wear and tear, or the effects of war. Be it from seeing your friend’s limbs in the field, someone loos their life in front of you, the senseless violence in the name of a nation, religion, or political movement.
As expressed in these articles.
A fading past: How America remembers World War I
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine-17620822/a-fading-past-how-america-remembers-world-war-i
Can Europe’s Liberal Order Survive as the Memory of War Fades?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/10/world/europe/europe-armistice-merkel-macron-peace-war.html
Perfectly expressed in this scene from Dr. Who actor Peter Capaldi. Mind the in-show references and understand The Doctor is a veteran, immortal to an extent, who knows the totality of war, trying to prevent another war in the brewing, he knows the pains, the righteous feeling, and anger that leads so many to kill, serve and protect.
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The Doctor: You just want cruelty to beget cruelty. You’re not superior to people who were cruel to you. You’re just a whole bunch of new cruel people. A whole bunch of new cruel people, being cruel to some other people, who’ll end up being cruel to you. The only way anyone can live in peace is if they’re prepared to forgive. Why don’t you break the cycle?
Bonnie: Why should we?
The Doctor: What is it that you actually want?
Bonnie: War.
The Doctor: Ah. And when this war is over, when — when you have the homeland free from humans, what do you think it’s going to be like? Do you know? Have you thought about it? Have you given it any consideration? Because you’re very close to getting what you want. What’s it going to be like? Paint me a picture. Are you going to live in houses? Do you want people to go to work? What’ll be holidays? Oh! Will there be music? Do you think people will be allowed to play violins? Who will make the violins? Well? Oh, You don’t actually know, do you? Because, just like every other tantruming child in history, Bonnie, you don’t actually know what you want. So, let me ask you a question about this brave new world of yours. When you’ve killed all the bad guys, and it’s all perfect and just and fair, when you have finally got it exactly the way you want it, what are you going to do with the people like you? The troublemakers. How are you going to protect your glorious revolution from the next one?
Bonnie: We’ll win.
Doctor: Oh, will you? Well maybe — maybe you will win. But nobody wins for long. The wheel just keepts turning. So, come on. Break the cycle.
Bonnie: Then why are you still talking?
The Doctor: Because I’m trying to get you to see. And I’m almost there.
Bonnie: Do you know what I see, Doctor? A box. A box with everything I need. A 50% chance.
Kate: For us, too.
[The Doctor sighs.]
The Doctor: And we’re off! Fingers on buzzers! Are you feeling lucky? Are you ready to play the game? Who’s going to be quickest? Who’s going to be the luckiest?
Kate: This is not a game!
The Doctor: No, it’s not a game, sweetheart, and I mean that most sincerely.
Bonnie: Why are you doing this?
Kate: Yes, I’d like to know that too. You set this up — why?
The Doctor: Because it’s not a game, Kate. This is a scale model of war. Every war ever fought right there in front of you. Because it’s always the same. When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who’s going to die. You don’t know who’s children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken! How many lives shattered! How much blood will spill until everybody does what they’re always going to have to do from the very beginning — sit down and talk! Listen to me, listen. I just — I just want you to think. Do you know what thinking is? It’s just a fancy word for changing your mind.
Bonnie: I will not change my mind.
The Doctor: Then you will die stupid. Alternatively, you could step away from that box. You could walk right out of that door, and you could stand your revolution down.
Bonnie: No, I’m not stopping this, Doctor. I started it. I will not stop it. You think they’ll let me go after what I’ve done?
The Doctor: You’re all the same, you screaming kids, you know that? “Look at me, I’m unforgivable.” Well here’s the unforeseeable, I forgive you. After all you’ve done. I forgive you.
Bonnie: You don’t understand. You will never understand.
The Doctor: I don’t understand? Are you kidding? Me? Of course I understand. I mean, do you call this a war, this funny little thing? This is not a war. I fought in a bigger war than you will ever know. I did worse things than you could ever imagine, and when I close my eyes… I hear more screams than anyone could ever be able to count! And do you know what you do with all that pain? Shall I tell you where you put it? You hold it tight… Til it burns your hand. And you say this — no one else will ever have to live like this. No one else will ever have to feel this pain. Not on my watch.
[Kate closes her box.]
The Doctor: Thank you. Thank you.
Kate: I’m sorry.
The Doctor: I know. I know, thank you.
[The Doctor looks back to Bonnie.]
Well?
Bonnie: It’s empty, isn’t it? Both boxes — there’s nothing in them. Just buttons.
The Doctor: Of course. But you know how you know that? Because you’ve started to think like me. It’s hell, isn’t it? No one should have to think like that. And no one will. Not on our watch.
[The Doctor and Bonnie stare at one another for a moment.]
The Doctor: Gotcha.
Bonnie: How can you be so sure?
The Doctor: Because you have a disadvantage, Zygella. I know that face.
Kate: Well, this is all very well, but as know the boxes are empty now. We can’t forget that.
The Doctor: No, well, uh… You’ve said that the last 15 times.
[The Doctor uses his sunglasses, which begin pulsing.]
Bonnie: You didn’t wipe my memory.
The Doctor: No. Just Kate’s. Oh, and your little friends here, of course. When they wake up, they won’t remember what you’ve done. It’ll be our secret.
Bonnie: You’re going to protect me?
Osgood: Well, you’re one of us now, whether you like it or not.
Bonnie: I don’t understand how You could just forgive me.
The Doctor: Because I’ve been where you have. There was another box. I was gonna press another button. I was going to wipe out all of my own kind. Man, woman, and child. I was so sure I was right.
Bonnie: What happened?
The Doctor: Same thing that happened to you. I let Clara Oswald get inside my head.”
Doctor Who | The Doctor’s Zygon War Speech Extract https://youtu.be/uCYobBjA1kk via @YouTube
World War One was a deadly war and was started over the assassination of a religious leader. Archduke Franz Ferdinand was just the tipping point he was the straw the broke the camels back or the last grain of sand that made it a heap of sand.
Did Franz Ferdinand’s Assassination Cause World War I?
https://www.history.com/news/did-franz-ferdinands-assassination-cause-world-war-i
Then World War two causes were numerous. Look at the historical practice of Anti-Semitism relegating Jewish to books and isolation not allowed to do certain work or participate in certain acts.
The Ancient Roots of Anti-Judaism https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/video/ancient-roots-anti-judaism#.XtdCrEILNF4.twitter
Anti-Semitism: how the origins of history’s oldest hatred still hold sway today https://theconversation.com/antisemitism-how-the-origins-of-historys-oldest-hatred-still-hold-sway-today-87878?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton via @ConversationUK
The Reparations and German guilt with the stereotypes of Jewish people the Communist Party of Germany in deep recession, the people are diving into ethno-centrality and ins vs. outs. Hitler rose to power, leading a revolution of Nazi’s which was used to describe the German Youth movement before the rise of the Nazi war party.
Here is a good resource to the rise of Hitler and a cursory glance as to the rise of his war party.
Hitler ran on the hopes and dreams of change, as the struggling youth of Germany were suffering, making enemies of the merchants mostly comprised of Jewish heritage and religion. He got elected as a counselor and passed a law making any law he passed or was part of irrepealably. He then restricted rights to the people as he saw fit. Much like Antifa vs. Proud Boys and any other political party is the same playbook as Red Shirt vs. Brown Shirt. When he took power, religious figures, political opponents, and fellow German who opposed shared the same fate as the Russians who opposed or were targeted by Russian Revolutionists, they were thrown in prison camps or worse. The worse part is the overlooked small details they exposed our lesser halves and not our better half. We are repeating the events of yesterday and failing to learn the lessons of the past. Just “Cruel people being cruel to people who were cruel to you,” and the sad part is the innocent people who were also victims of the system who just based on appearance getting caught up in the mix. Be it black because of the “Super predator” mindset by Hilary Clinton, or the image of all white benefiting from an ill-gotten benefit, even the poor white is rounded up in that group identity because of generalities.
The Sturmabteilung or SA
https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/nazi-germany/the-sturmabteilung-or-sa/
Listened to Hitler’s Early Rise and t… from Stuff You Missed in History… @Stitcher @MissedinHistory https://www.stitcher.com/s?eid=50241275
That wasn’t the only factor in the spark of World War two you have the rise of Communism and Socialism. Socialism in Germany Communism in Russia the book “The Gulag Archipelago” is a good book by Aleksandra Solzhenitsyn, showing that the silence of the people and support of the people eating who was targeted not to realize that they would be targeted later. This book Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning, Kevin Gallagher, in which the men who were bought up in Communist Germany and lived through Socialist Germany. When they were put in charge of the people of Poland after being conquered by Germany, their descent into what we can’t imagine us doing right now. Neither did they but one act on another, one compromise on anther, slowly lead them to the monsters they became.
Marxism isn’t new, it is quite old, look at the Diggers for an example as Proto-Communist.
1.12- In The Name of God Go
https://www.revolutionspodcast.com/2013/12/012-in-the-name-of-god-go.html
Digger https://www.britannica.com/event/Digger via @britannica
World War II Series (Part Four): The Impact of Communism
http://www.museumcenter.org/the-curious-curator/2018/9/28/world-war-ii-series-part-four-the-red-spectre-of-communism
So the causes of WWII and WWI are numerous. Not one incident can take blame or credit, the keg was just set off with the final catalyst.
When considering the articles above, the rise of nation-states and national identity and industrial drive. Are we repeating the history of yesterday look at the rioting and looting all over the world in Paris, Europe, and USA. Over the wrongful death of George Floyd, even when a man named Tim Timpa didn’t cause the reaction his death did and in the Tony Timpa case the cops got off, because of the underlying medical conditions caused his death. Still, the stress added by the police agitated his conditions. Why am I using these two the both were bound and crying for help with the same cry “I can’t breathe.” I will not get into the double standards here, but one is black the other white, or the social climate and increased scrutiny of police brutality is more prevalent in 2020 than 2016. I would bet on the latter not former as you see all people of all creeds looting and rioting. The pressure of being locked down for months under quarantine because of the Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak.
‘You’re gonna kill me!’: Dallas police bodycam footage reveals the final minutes of Tony Timpa’s life https://www.dallasnews.com/news/investigations/2019/07/31/you-re-gonna-kill-me-dallas-police-body-cam-footage-reveals-the-final-minutes-of-tony-timpa-s-life/
George Floyd’s encounter with Minneapolis police shown in new video https://nypost.com/2020/05/29/george-floyds-deadly-police-encounter-shown-in-new-video/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons via @nypost
Unlike in the previous killing of Tony Timpa’s case where they excused it as the medical cause he died, the attempt failed this time with George Floyd. They attempted and failed as a second autopsy showed he died of asphyxiation (mechanical asphyxiation).
Then increased gun sales as the lock downs and increased rights being infringed on depending on one’s political affiliation. The generation of WWII is less and less, more youth with a desire for a story to tell, the lack of drive, and culture wars in society. We need to heed the past of fall prey to the violent tendency of our lesser half.
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