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Alright people, I must log off so I can try and be relaxed enough to get some sleep.
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"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
—
Ernest Hemingway (via philphys)
Actions can be 100% necessary and still wrong. It took me the longest time to reconcile this.
“Never Forever…” is a quantitative visualisation of the transient nature of empire. The visualisation graphs all known empires, colonies and territorial occupations from 2334 BCE to the present day.
more pictures here
When I think of empires I always think of the skeevy old man from Catch-22: “The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with its fighting man that is second to none, and with its standard of living that is highest in the world, will last as long as…the frog? ”
