re: #274 Ian G.

Fixed that for you. I still shake my head at the enormity of the waste of millions of lives and the utter destruction from the Great War. I mean, all wars are like that, but at least some have a point worth fighting for. What the fuck was the point of WWI?

Edit: and the reason I’m pondering WWI is because I always do around Veterans/Armistice/Remembrance Day.

From everything I’ve ever read about WWI, the reason it happened was because everyone expected it to. There was no cause that anyone was fighting for, there was no big, nasty aggressor, there was really no advantage to be gained, and everyone just figured they’d march across the enemy’s territory in a lightning move and it would all be over, and they’d have won, but they didn’t know what that would have meant.

It’s probably mankind’s most colossal fuckup, and whenever I hear people talking about the superiority of Western Culture, I think about WWI.