The news is scary. Two nuclear powers are 'at it'. Can we make any sense of it all? Should we buy a fully-functioning deep hole in the ground from my mate Don? I'm reading a book about art historians in the Third Reich. My interest is in the shameful role of education and upper-class professionals in the worst of human behaviour. The educated professors played a disproportional role in the Third Reich (even 48% of doctors were signed up as Nazis) and the later Stazi in East Germany. A key concept for me is ponos - educated toff behaviour in Ancient Athens - the show of virtue whilst mapping a new economy through slave purchase and exploitation. The whole world seems to run on elites professing virtue and erudition or holiness whilst actually being crude beasts interested in slaking desire and having the trouser-geld and power for this self-interest.
-- Why would India and Pakistan engage in this idiot behaviour? Those of us who have been hiding under the US arms' umbrella can hardly claim to see this with any clarity given what we ignore of our countries' "exploits".
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