THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Bruce Fein) - Is Our Problem Species Narcissism?
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Foreign Affairs Is Our Problem Species Narcissism? Man remains the only creature that engages in mass slaughter. War, i.e., the legalization of what in peacetime is first-degree murder, has been the imperishable scourge of the species since Genesis. Joshua conquered Canaan by force and violence. The commandment “Thou shalt not kill” is honored in the breach rather than in the observance. Thucydides in his History of the Peloponnesian War observed that the strong doing what they can and the weak suffering what they must is the key to unlocking the human narrative. Geniuses like Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud were clueless…Open