To get serious again there was a very good post on a thread in Chat today- the thread was about the madness of the world & all the atrocities that are happening now.
I hope no one minds me quoting this - it just struck a chord with me & I thought it was worth sharing:
"It's the end of a golden age. I don't think people realised just how
much we all lived in the shadow of WW2 - the last great war with a truly
moral basis. It showed the extremity of racist imperialism and the West
drew back. It confronted us with ableism and homophobia taken to it's
logical conclusion and we reacted - slowly - to rectify our errors. It
proved that people of all races and genders could serve their nations
and, again very slowly, we learned. Even the Cold War showed vast
restraint - the great powers were terrified of total war and the nuclear
danger it had unleashed, so fearful that even the Soviet Union didn't
want to risk a conflict.
But we no longer share a century with that war. I was born with one foot
in that century of dreadful lessons, but there are children alive today
to whom it's not a reality, just dry history on the page or semi-fiction
on the screen. There are nations and cultures who did not take part in
that gruesome classroom of despair and carnage, who did not learn the
lessons we did, however imperfectly. Those within our culture and beyond
it now question our values, think them decadence and weakness, not
seeing blood we paid to learn why we should value tolerance, fairness
and law.
So now people are spilling blood again, because the lessons have been
forgotten or were never learned. Thus is history beginning once again
it's long repeat."
The poster was: MephistophelesApprentice