Val Noone
Bruce Haig
You won't find anything like either of these articles anywhere in the mainstream media for the simple reason that they are mythbustingly antimilitaristic and would be lambasted and discredited as unpatriotic. They both make valid points though.
I remember catching something about all this in high school but Val Noone brings it all back. OK, sure, it was just another trade war, but it was a trade war between world straddling empires, and everything began to change until the second part of it finished the job. It was always going to be messy, costly, and deadly, and as such must be remembered so that it can never happen again.
As to the supposed need for a nation to have a creation myth, we live in a time of internationalism. As noted previously on this blog, labour, the third factor of production, is finally internationalising, and this should herald the advent of the Keynesian/capitalist utopia and world government.
Indeed, one point of contrast between the first decades of the 20th and 21st centuries is the dominance of nationalist thought in the former and internationalist thought in the latter.
The Bruce Haig piece is a little harsh on our Bill Shorten. Bill hasn't shown his hand yet, and you won't see it until the coming election, but as I have said on theses pages. We are crying out for the imposition of a true leader, and we await his or her arrival.
With bated breath I might add.
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