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Posted by Lawrence O. Upp on December 8, 2007, 8:15 pm
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result generally held to be undesirable, the precautions against defeat had
to be serious. Physical facts could not be ignored. In philosophy, or
religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one
was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four. Inefficient
nations were always conquered sooner or later, and the struggle for
efficiency was inimical to illusions. Moreover, to be efficient it was
necessary to be able to learn from the past, which meant having a fairly
accurate idea of what had happened in the past. Newspapers and history
books were, of course, always coloured and biased, but falsification of the
kind that is practised today would have been impossible. War was a sure
safeguard of sanity, and so far as the ruling classes were concerned it was
probably the most important of all safeguards. While wars could be won or
lost, no ruling class could be completely irresponsible.
But when war becomes literally continuous, it also ceases to be
dangerous. When war is continuous there is no such thing as military
necessity. Technical progress can cease and the most palpable facts can be
denied or disregarded. As we have seen, researches that could be called
scientific are still carried out for the purposes of war, but they are
essentially a kind of daydreaming, and their failure to show results is no
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