By: Bill Lee Don't get me wrong, myths and myth making are important for any group or polity. We need to have some sort of stories that explain us to ourselves and our experience of the human condition. Also, don't get me wrong about the idea of Remembrance Day. A lot of good and decent young men went to their deaths and on the whole probably fought very bravely. World War Two was indeed by and large an unavoidable conflagration and had a moral purpose for millions of people. Hitler really was a terrible leader and the Nazi ideology one of the most pernicious to ever confound decent human beings. On the other hand WWI, the war after which Remembrance Day was developed has hardly a noble mission. One doesn't have to be a follower of Lenin to recognize that it was a capitalistic and imperialist tragedy, ill thought out in beginning, inadequate in purpose and abysmally brainless in execution. I had an uncle who fought in that mess and once home he pretty much...
PERCEPTIONS AND THOUGHTS, OBJECTIVE AND/OR POLEMICAL, ON ISSUES OF THE COMMON GOOD