It is only because we are quite astonishingly and catastrophically unable to end wars that we find ourselves in so very many ways and for so very many different reasons still fighting them. We have refined our sharpest technological insights as a function of conflict and the intertribal dissonance that our species specialises in. What is eminently obvious to even the casual observer of this regrettably belligerent human condition is that we are compelled to pursue “smart weapons” only because we (all) remain in gestalt far too stupid to stop fighting wars.
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Smart Weapons and Stupid Wars
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Well in a sense it’s true. We are too stupid to stop fighting wars. And someone thinks a better weapon is the way to go. But you forget. What drugs do. What Crack does. What heroin does. And then what meth does. The blitzkrieg would not have been possble without the mass produced amphetamine pill. Then England got Crack in the pill and changed everything with telegrams signed Adolf and even got Hitler on Crack for his last speech to start the second front. War is: sex money power… read https://theundulatingdragon.wordpress.com/2023/06/21/2-smart/ and https://theundulatingdragon.wordpress.com/2023/02/22/da-da-dumb/
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Makes money.
It also conveys a purpose for military types. Saves them having to think.
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