All Quiet on The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/08/all-quiet-on-western-front-by-erich.html the 2022 adaptation of the classic was nominated for the most important BAFTAs, Golden Globes and Oscars, winner of multiple prestigious awards and the idea for this note - 10 out of 10

 

All Quiet on The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/08/all-quiet-on-western-front-by-erich.html the 2022 adaptation of the classic was nominated for the most important BAFTAs, Golden Globes and Oscars, winner of multiple prestigious awards and the idea for this note

10 out of 10

 

 

All Quiet on The Western Front is not just a ‘classic magnum opus’, it should also a quintessential part of the education of teenagers – younger children would probably be overwhelmed by the violence and monstrosity exposed, albeit this is often too much for adults, I had to see the latest adaptation in installments, all at the same time would be too horrible, no matter how much of the ‘real thing’, images of war in Ukraine we have now on the daily news – so that they learn what war means

 

There is a wonderful book by mesmerizing Ian Morris, War What Is It Good For http://realini.blogspot.com/2015/08/war-what-is-it-good-for-by-ian-morris.html that looks at the history of warfare and comes to some astounding conclusions…he is also the celebrated author of Why The West Rules For Now http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/10/why-west-rules-for-now-by-ian-morris.html two fabulous works that will transform the view of the world of the reader, unless he is a bigoted, conspiracy theory enthusiast

Reading War What Is It Good For and Why The West Rules For Now we understand much better the history and perhaps to some extent the present of humanity, while being amused in the process -“Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? PFJ Member: Brought peace? Reg: Oh, peace? SHUT UP!” this was a dialogue from Monty Python’s Life of Brian http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/03/monty-pythons-life-of-brian-bymonty.html that makes a good point

 

The Romans waged war on much of the world as they knew it, when barbarians and others did not attack them, but we could argue using the comedy lines above that, once they conquered new territories, the old, among the first major ‘imperialists’ brought sanitation, medicine, education, public order, irrigation, the famous roads, fresh water system, the baths, and yes, eventually peace, and Ian Morris makes some strong arguments in favor of the theory that wars have brought some good…

Besides, he is demonstrates that with time, the conflicts would diminish, we would have less and less wars and a more stable peace, a theory embraced also by one of the most distinguished luminaries of the present, Yuval Harari, author of Homo Deus – A Brief History of Tomorrow http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/homo-deus-brief-history-of-tomorrow-by.html and two other major books, Homo Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind, and 21 Lessons For The Twenty First Century

 

Indeed, in the last century we have had two cataclysmic, horrendous World Wars, but statistics showed that overall, with the end of these two awful, planetary conflicts, the world has seen a wonderful advent of peace, Europe looked set to enjoy a bright present and future, with humans becoming almost Gods, as predicted in Homo Deus, where we see a luminous perspective, people living more and more, to the point where they may reach immortality, Artificial Intelligence will drive cars, and we will have Kant and Schumacher taking care of that, the perfect efficiency and unlimited knowledge of the machines will improve almost any aspect of the lives of those generations, except they will have to choose their careers carefully, few areas will be spared, archeologists will still be in demand…as humans, not AI

Alas, there came the war in Ukraine, we should say the latest, for the brief conflict in 2014 was mostly ignored, since Russia used its ‘little green men’, after denying it has anybody there, to snatch the Crimea from its ‘brothers’ and then, almost one year ago, they have launched a brutal, massive, monstrous attack on a country that had done nothing to deserve this, they just have land that Putin wants.

 

At the health club where I have returned after a long absence, caused by the pandemic and then prolonged due to mistrust of their managerial skills (for instance, in 2019 I had told them about the massive quantities of soap that they throw down the drain, since they have one soap dispenser that is broken, and all they put it, comes out almost instantly and then is washed to the sewage in a  repellent way…they had not fixed it, and furthermore, when I insisted and said OK, you do not have the plumber or some god damn reason for all this, but at the very least, stop putting soap in that damaged recipient, because it is all down the toilet, nothing doing, I return in December 2022 and keep telling them the same story, and what do you think they do, they close the outdoor Jacuzzi on making savings grounds, but all the time, perhaps for an uninterrupted period of Three Fucking years, they have thrown a ton of soap down the pipes, and what a lough, they call themselves World Class, as in that is what they offer and have, unbeaten management, services…Jesus, Mary and Joseph) we were talking war.

Some were just saying about the fact that Putin may have tried to spare the enemy, for he could use such force…well, he did pound the innocent civilians massively, the only thing that he has not used, but used as blackmail – and it works, they have repeated yesterday the leit motif, that the Americans and others will not send fighting jets, worried that it could escalate, and climb up to what, well, nuclear clashes would be the only thing left and then a head on between the nuclear armed countries and the end of it all –

 

We should have learned from All Quiet on The Western Front, history and what we could still see from clashes that take place in realms of the world, from Somalia to Myanmar, Congo to Libya and Syria, but the problem the world has is that tyrants and lunatics seem to make their way to the top, Putin in Russia, his fan, Trump in America, and the Chinese will attack Taiwan, it is just a question of when, not if, and seeing as their military, economic power is increasing and they will take the first place soon, with the rotten system they have (we had had commies here for decades, care of the Soviets and the old Putins) the world needs to worry I took part in the Revolution that toppled Ceausescu, this is The Newsweek article that proves it http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html and this is how I look at the world http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world