How would you like it? Nuclear war, civil wars breaking out so that people get to kill their neighbors, the earth exploding from internal pressures like earthquakes or lava floes f... moreHow would you like it? Nuclear war, civil wars breaking out so that people get to kill their neighbors, the earth exploding from internal pressures like earthquakes or lava floes from deep within or comets heading directly for earth from other places in the universe or germ warfare, chemical warfare, starvation, deadly disease, climate change in the extreme so you can freeze to death or die from excessive heat? There must be many ways to annihilate and be annihilated.
Those words were written by Edmund Burke, Irish political philosopher(January 12, 1729 -July 9, 1797), in a letter to Thomas Mercer. In 1770 he also wrote "Thoughts on the cause of... moreThose words were written by Edmund Burke, Irish political philosopher(January 12, 1729 -July 9, 1797), in a letter to Thomas Mercer. In 1770 he also wrote "Thoughts on the cause of the present discontents" from which the following is taken:"When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle"The more things change the more they stay the same. The pendulum goes nowhere. It just swings back and forth gaining no ground nor losing any. Human nature will never change. Centuries ago or today...people are the same all over the world in all times and places. If that isn't depressing I don't know what is. less
