We Live To Fight Another Day

Our educational system must be pretty bad. We're liable to believe anything anybody says. A world without war; a world without (oil, coal, nuclear...) energy; a world where the fabled golden goose lives eternally without regard to how many times we kill it.

Or is it the other way around? Those telling us these things believe it? Or they believe that we believe it? Any way you look at it, we're in a heap of trouble.

As far back as the late 18th - early 19th centuries red flags were raised concerning over-population (Thomas Malthus). I’ve been hearing renewed whisperings concerning this aspect too – like couples qualifying to earn 'birth credits' for not having children. Add ‘a world without people’ to the list above.

Would there really be a world if there were no people? Clearly, we believe that at one time there were none. Therefore, it also becomes theoretically possible to envision a future without (humans). But the whole exercise is invalid because it is we who are doing the thinking.

With regard specifically to last night’s presidential address to the nation – the first by this president from the Oval Office, I might add – it is clear from the reactions this morning that it caught us all equally off-guard. Red and Blue are now united against Obama. (Bush found himself in a similar situation.) Stalemate! We live to fight another day.