3 thoughts on “Seven Years Later”

  2. I know what is meant when people use the phrase “lose their humanity in war”, but I think they should choose a different phrase. This is because the phrase suggests that people become something they are not….something that is not human. Also, I think that just about every human has to lose something of that ‘humanity’ if they are in serious war. Hard to see how that’s avoidable.

    Some people like to think we have evolved beyond the need for war and that war can always be avoided. They delude themselves.

    I think the veneer of civilization is very thin.

    It only takes a little bit of pressure to turn a lot of people into what would be considered, today, as savages. “Katrina” was bad but not nearly as bad as it can get – not nearly as bad as we have seen in our lifetimes (Darfur) and yet a lot of people became uncivilized rather quickly.

    I think it *is* human to “lose one’s humanity” under severe pressures. It’s part of who we are. That’s why I’d like to see the phrase changed.

    Something more like:

    “a facet of humanity was brought to the fore.”

    One that is typically suppressed and/or submerged.

    1. “Civilization” is a power statsis, a state of affairs agreeable to most of the men such that they may conduct profitable business without killing each other.

      War is the opposite of that.

      So, yes, the idea that warfare, power in flux, is not a part of humanity is patently absurd.

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