Today is the anniversary of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki. We all know the first bomb was dropped on August the 6th 1945 on Hiroshima, but the second one on August the 9th is not often recalled. It was equally devastating and perhaps even more than inhuman, in that the Hiroshima bomb had already demonstrated what this weapon would do.
History is strewn with the inhumanity perpetrated by humans. If this is not an oxymoron. There are always reasons. We had to end the war. For the bomb. We had to eradicate the evil race threatening our civilization. The German concentration camps.
There is always a reason. The vilest of human, that is inhuman behaviour is always justified. Take the Spanish Holy Inquisition. This was the highest calling of all. In God’s name we devised and carried out the most horrendous torture on God’s children. To save their souls we ravished their bodies!
Though not comparable to the above cited horrors, the German led EU now cites very good accounting reasons for why it is throwing millions of people all over the continent into destitution, lowering life expectancy through the willful dismantling of all healthcare services and so on.
We have to do it. To reduce the deficit. To reduce debt.
It never occurs to any of these enlightened despots that there may be another way. That there may be a humane way. Or that anyway, what they purport to be trying to do, balance the books in our case, is perhaps not of the primary importance they pretend it is.
And what they never ever admit to is that, hey, maybe we did get it wrong! Look at the results!
No. The results are always attributed to other factors, other players, and usually to the victims of their actions themselves.
That is why I am not too optimistic that the Eurozone situation will get sorted out and in time.
It would take guts and it would take vision to do that. Qualities sorely lacking in all those making the decisions.