War
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The other problem was that Canada's long cold
war
between its French and its English communities had just become a hot one.
A full-scale nuclear
war?
This machine would be capable of waging war, whether terrestrial or cyber, with unprecedented power.
But it's also made us increasingly reactive, from the smallest annoyances of, "Oh, my train's been delayed," to the greatest injustices of war, genocides, terrorist attacks.
"We're declaring
war
against cancer, and we will win this
war
by 2015."
I don't think we quite won this
war
yet, and I don't think anyone here will question that.
Now, I will argue that a primary reason why we're not winning this
war
against cancer is because we're fighting blindly.
So to be frank here, we're pretty far away from winning the
war
against cancer, just to be realistic.
But at least I am hopeful that we should be able to fight this
war
with better medical imaging techniques in the way that is not blind.
If you can, you're beginning to see the face of the invisible wounds of war, commonly known as post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury.
We've had various names for post-traumatic stress throughout the history of war: homesickness, soldier's heart, shell shock, thousand-yard stare, for instance.
And while I was pursuing my degree, a new
war
was raging, and thanks to modern body armor and military vehicles, service members were surviving blast injuries they wouldn't have before.
They're even building machines, weapons, that might kill human beings in
war.
Decision makers and gatekeepers, in courts, in news, in
war
... they make mistakes; but that's exactly my point.
And at the age of 12 I experienced war, destitution in my family, the deaths of 22 of my relatives in horrible ways, as well as the murder of my elder brother.
A victim of circumstance caught up in a war, cruelly thrust upon him by the cruel circumstances of the time.
We hear the chaos of
war.
But whenever I said those dreadful words, "Take out a book and read," you'd think I'd just declared
war.
Now as it turns out, the best treatments for PTSD use many of the very same training principles that the military uses in preparing its trainees for
war.
We humans have been making
war
since before we were even fully human.
We are good at making
war.
So until only very recently in our evolutionary history, there was hardly a need to learn how to come home from war, because we never really did.
Because while our warriors spend countless hours training for war, we've only recently come to understand that many require training on how to return to civilian life.
When veterans come home from war, their way of mentally framing the world is calibrated to an immensely more dangerous environment.
Because ... this life is short, and if you are fortunate enough to have survived
war
or any kind of traumatic experience, you owe it to yourself to live your life well.
Now, the best way of ending human suffering caused by
war
is to never go to
war.
But we must ensure that the science, the energy level, the value that we place on sending them off to
war
is at the very least mirrored in how well we prepare them to come back home to us.
But we can also live together really peacefully, and we've invented all kinds of fun ways of, like, playing
war.
There's interesting research from Joe Henrich and others that says if your country was at war, especially when you were young, then we test you 30 years later in a commons dilemma or a prisoner's dilemma, you're more cooperative.
Let's pretend that our government supported an oil-based economy, while discouraging more sustainable forms of energy, knowing all the while that the result would be pollution,
war
and rising costs.
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