WAR...
FEAR...
TERROR...
PARANOIA...
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies
in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are
cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is
spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of
its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the
clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
--Dwight Eisenhower 1953 speech
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Our topic for this theme:
Wars
Our essential questions:
How does a society manage fear, threats? How does it resolve conflict? How
is a society sustained through conflict? How does perspective influence
fear, response to fear and manipulation by fear?
other people's thoughts and feelings about fear and its impact on human
behavior:
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and
there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war
or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
--Plato
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded
state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is
much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing
which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature,
and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of
better men than himself.
--John Stuart Mill
Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
--Aung San Suu Kyi
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of
fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves.
-- Bonaro W. Overstreet
Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to
be alive -- the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
-- Don Miguel Ruiz
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear.
-- Dorothy Thompson